Barrister fails in bid to represent clients without using a solicitor
The High Court dismissed a barrister's application to be allowed to represent clients without having to be instructed by a solicitor. Eugenie...
View ArticleCase of former solicitor who stole from clients to be re-heard
The case of a former solicitor who stole €260,000 from her clients is to be re-heard after the sentencing judge realised that a member of her wider family knows a relative of the accused. Jacqueline...
View ArticleMinister Fitzgerald welcomes the completion of passage of the Legal Services...
(Source: Department of Justice and Equality of Ireland) 15 December 2015 The Minister for Justice and Equality, Frances Fitzgerald TD has welcomed the completion of all stages the Legal Services...
View ArticleFormer Mayo solicitor who stole from clients jailed for a year
A former solicitor who stole €260,000 from her clients over a three year period has been jailed for a year. Jacqueline Durcan (47), a mother-of-five originally from Co Mayo, carried out the thefts...
View Article‘Gambling’ Mallow solicitor struck off
A Mallow-based solicitor was struck off the roll of solicitors by the President of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, this week. Barry Murphy, a sole practitioner practising as Eugene Carey &...
View ArticleAppointment of five Commissioners to the Criminal Cases Review Commission
The Commission's role is to investigate and review cases where it is alleged that a miscarriage of justice may have occurred in relation to conviction, sentence or both. The Commission was the first...
View ArticleSydney solicitor struck off for 'borrowing' clients' money
A Sydney solicitor who kept "deplorable" financial records and secretly borrowed clients' money to pay off other client debts has been struck off the roll of lawyers. Albert-Edris Truong of...
View ArticleCanberra lawyer disbarred for professional misconduct
A Canberra lawyer has been banned from practising law after a court found he had misused money he held in trust for clients. The ACT Supreme Court earlier this month ordered Mark Andrew Slater's name...
View Article'Harry Potter' lawyer 'failed to keep client records'
A lawyer criticised for dressing "like something out of Harry Potter" did not keep proper records because they were a waste of paper, a tribunal has heard. Alan Blacker angered a judge at Cardiff Crown...
View ArticleDiluted Legal Services Regulation Bill has 235 amendments and counting
Minister for Justice Frances Fitzgerald has said long-awaited legislation to reform the legal profession will be in place by the end of the year. However the Legal Services Regulation Bill, originally...
View ArticleLaw Society suspends solicitor from practising
The Law Society has secured interim orders to freeze the accounts of a solicitor after he disclosed a deficit of up to €400,000 in a client account. In documents supplied to the court Barry Murphy, a...
View ArticleLawyer struck off for misappropriating trust money
A former Dunedin lawyer has been struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors after keeping money belonging to a client. Richard James Woodhouse pled guilty at a New Zealand Lawyers and...
View ArticleFormer solicitor stole €260k from clients after series of 'catastrophic'...
A former solicitor who was €6.5 million in debt stole €260,000 from her clients after she made a series of “catastrophic” investments during the property boom, a court has heard. Share Former solicitor...
View ArticleExcess charges of €340,000 in solicitors’ work on €14m estate
Two solicitors overcharged by €340,000 for their work on administering the estate of a woman who left €14 million to the St Vincent de Paul charitable society, the High Court has been told. Gerard...
View ArticleLegal reform: Professions to retain key powers in plan
The representative bodies for barristers and solicitors will retain many of their major powers as the Government makes a late push to proceed with a long-delayed overhaul of the legal professions by...
View ArticleSolicitor charged his client for hearings that he never attended, High Court...
A solicitor billed a client for court hearings he never attended and claimed to have spent hours working on matters which took considerably less time to complete, the High Court has heard. The...
View ArticleJudge refuses struck-off solicitor’s bid to resume practice
A solicitor struck off three years ago has lost his High Court bid to have his name restored to the Roll of Solicitors. The President of the High Court, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, found David Walsh, who...
View ArticleA New Model for SEC Enforcement: Producing Bold and Unrelenting Results (SEC...
(Source: SEC - The United States Securities and Exchange Commission) Chair Mary Jo White New York University School of Law Program on Corporate Compliance and Enforcement New York University School of...
View ArticlePress Release re TAT Technologies Files Annual Report on Form 20-F (TAT...
(Source: TAT Technologies Ltd) TAT TECHNOLOGIES LTD. P.O. Box 80, Gedera 70750, Israel Securities registered or to be registered pursuant to Section 12(g) of the Act: None Securities for which there is...
View ArticleProposed acquisition of Lynx Resources Limited
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