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Lawyer Name:Connolly, Steven John
Lawyer Type:Solicitor
Date/s of Admission/s: 16-Feb-2007
Law Practice:
Boulevarde Lawyers
Business Address or Former Address:
Suite 8 2 Fishing Point Road Rathmines NSW 2283
Place of Issue of Practising Certificate:New South Wales
Substance of Conduct Matter:

1. Breached section 255 LPA 2004 - Holding, disbursing and accounting for trust money<BR/>2. Breached section 261(1)(b) LPA 2004 - Dealing with trust money: legal costs and unclaimed money<BR/>3. Breached section 263 LPA 2004 - Reporting certain irregularities and suspected irregularities<BR/>4. Breached section 264 LPA 2004 - Keeping trust records<BR/>5. Caused a deficiency in the trust account and/or trust account ledger<BR/>6. Breached clause 88 of the Legal Profession Regulation 2004 - Withdrawing trust money for legal costs<BR/>7. Engaged in unethical conduct<BR/>8. Failed to provide an itemised account<BR/>9. Behaved inappropriately towards a client

Finding:Professional Misconduct
By:NSW Civil & Administrative Tribunal - Occupational Division
Date: 23-Mar-2018
Disciplinary Action:
Costs
Removal of lawyer'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/5ab1d8bee4b087b8baa87c0e&quot;&gt;Council of the Law Society of New South Wales v Connolly [2018] NSWCATOD 43</a>]