Diluted 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 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 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 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 ArticleSolicitor guilty of misconduct for not refunding excessive fee
A solicitor who charged three times what he should have for the administration and dispersal of the estate of a late farmer has been found guilty of professional misconduct. The Solicitors Disciplinary...
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 ArticleLawyer struck off
A LAWYER who stole more than £200,000 from clients has been struck off. George Barrowman,...
View ArticleDublin solicitor guilty of misconduct over handling of cases
A well-known Dublin solicitor has been found guilty of professional misconduct arising from his handling of a number of cases and failure to pay various sums totalling some €35,000 to four clients and...
View ArticleSolicitor struck off for ‘woeful neglect’ of client
A woman is unable to sell her house because, unknown to her, a €40,000 judgment was entered against her due to her solicitor’s “woeful neglect” and “reprehensible” failure to process her personal...
View ArticleDublin solicitor guilty of misconduct over case-handling
A well-known Dublin solicitor has been found guilty of professional misconduct arising from his handling of a number of cases and failure to pay various sums totalling some €35,000 to four clients and...
View ArticleDonegal solicitor used client funds of more than €177,000
A Co Donegal solicitor used at least €177,000 of his client’s money to pay for personal expenses, the High Court has been told. The court was told yesterday that the Law Society took action against...
View ArticleHigh Court censures solicitor
A solicitor whose service to a number of clients repeatedly fell below acceptable professional standards has been censured by the High Court and ordered only to work under supervision. The Law Society...
View ArticleDublin solicitor Greg O'Neill guilty of misconduct charges
A Dublin solicitor has been found guilty of several charges of professional misconduct relating to over €35,000 that he owes to five former clients. Greg...
View ArticleCall to prosecute solicitors with more urgency and force
CAROL COULTER DELAYS IN the criminal prosecution system in relation to white-collar crime seem to be endemic and are totally unacceptable, according to the chairman of the Solicitors��� Disciplinary...
View ArticleDallison struck off for serious misconduct
Peter Robert Dallison has been struck off the roll of barristers and solicitors for serious misconduct, a disciplinary tribunal said today. The New Zealand Lawyers and Conveyancers Disciplinary...
View ArticleSolicitor struck off for forging signature
A SOLICITOR who used a colleague���s signature when signing undertakings related to bank loans on property has been struck off by the High Court for professional misconduct. Patrick J Munnelly,...
View ArticleSolicitor struck off for professional misconduct
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