Solicitor sentenced for child abuse offences struck from roll
By Naomi Neilson|25 April 2021
A solicitor whose practising certificate was first suspended after pleading guilty to possession of child abuse material has now officially been removed from the roll of practitioners for separate trust account misappropriation.
Content warning: This article contains some content around child abuse material.
Following the NSW Civil and Administrative Tribunal’s (NCAT) recommendation that sole practitioner James Edward Leslie be removed from the roll, the Supreme Court made it official and ordered that he pay the Law Society of NSW’s costs. The finding stemmed from two cases in which he disbursed client monies to himself.