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Lawyer Name:Holt, Michael Francis
Lawyer Type:Solicitor
Date/s of Admission/s: 22-Dec-1982
Law Practice:
Holt & Allen
Business Address or Former Address:
Level 1 Regency Court 15A Regent Street Kogarah NSW 2217
Place of Issue of Practising Certificate:New South Wales
Substance of Conduct Matter:

<p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">1. Misled or attempted to mislead officer of State Revenue and Trust Account Inspectors</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">2. Failure to account</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">3. False stamping of documents in attempt to defraud the Office of State Revenue</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">4. Misappropriation</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">5. Negligence/Gross Negligence</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">6. Delay/Gross delay</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">7. Forging signatures</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">8. Wilful breach of section 61 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - handling of trust moneys</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">9. Wilful breach of section 62 of the Legal Profession Act 1987 - failure to keep proper accounting records of trust moneys</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">10. Misleading clients</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">11. Practising without a practising certificate</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">12. Holding himself out to be a practising solicitor by using the letterhead of Holt &amp; Allen</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">13. Breach of fiduciary duties</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">14. Failure to secure a relevant loan by failure to register a mortgage or lodge a caveat</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">15. Failure to attend diligently to the discharge of a mortgage</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">16. Wilfully misled the Legal Services Commissioner in the exercise of his investigatory powers</span></p><p><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">17. Acting in a conflict of interest</span></p>

Finding:Professional Misconduct
By:Legal Services Division of the Administrative Decisions Tribunal
Date: 26-Jun-2009
Disciplinary Action:
Costs
Removal of practitioner's name from the Roll of Local Lawyers
Proceedings Instituted By:Council of the Law Society of New South Wales
Citation:

[<a href="https://www.caselaw.nsw.gov.au/decision/549f69d63004262463a4d12f&quot;&gt;Law Society of New South Wales v Holt [2009] NSWADT 163</a>]