Prominent lawyer, Haroon Ali Shah will be sentenced by the Independent Legal Services Commission on the 22nd of this month.
Shah has been found guilty of seven counts of professional misconduct and two counts of unsatisfactory professional conduct by Independent Legal Services Commissioner, Justice Paul Madigan.
The case is in relation to Shah holding $70,000 in a trust account for an insurance claim payment after an accident and then only paying $50,000 to the client while deducting $20,000 as legal fees.
The other counts relate to Shah failing to ensure that the trust account was not overdrawn and failing to keep displayed accounting records which disclosed at all times the true position regarding all trust money held.
Shah's mitigation before Justice Madigan is in the next hour.
Justice Madigan will then set a sentencing date.
The maximum sentence is the lawyer's name to be struck off the legal practitioners roll.
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