EO and EP v VO LCRO 240 / 2010 (3 August 2011) [pdf, 109 KB]
...The Committee appears to have overlooked a previous decision of this Office, namely A v Z, LCRO 40/2009. There the LCRO concluded that a lawyer may only deal with trust funds in two ways pursuant to s 89 of the Law Practitioners Act 1982 (or s 110 of the Lawyers and Conveyancers Act 2006). That is by paying those funds to the client, or paying them at the direction of the client. This decision may be accessed on the LCRO website. It is understood that this decision was widely prom...