Summary of Rule 4-59 - Administrative Penalty
David K. Plunkett
Location: Vancouver, BC
Called to the bar: August 1, 2002
Penalty deemed to be admitted: November 7, 2022
FACTS
On October 4, 2022, an administrative penalty was assessed against David K. Plunkett for $3000. The administrative penalty resulted from breaches of Rules 3-102 and 3-103 of the Law Society Rules 2015, which require a lawyer to verify the identity of instructing clients, and to verify the directors and majority shareholders for organizational clients, for any file where the lawyer provides legal services in respect of a financial transaction.
Specifically, between January 1, 2020 and October 15, 2021, Plunkett:
Plunkett paid the penalty on November 7, 2022, and has therefore been deemed to admit the above breach per Rule 4-59(5)(a).