Is a breach of trust accounting rules sufficient to constitute professional misconduct?
British Columbia, Canada
The following excerpt is from Reith (Re), 2018 LSBC 23 (CanLII):
In Law Society of BC v. Uzelac, 2003 LSBC 35, the hearing panel noted at paragraph 26 that individual breaches of trust accounting rules may not amount to professional misconduct, but “a continuing course of action evidencing a complete neglect of the Respondent’s obligations to maintain trust records” does meet the threshold.
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