Gerald Kean loses appeal against finding of misconduct
The High Court has dismissed solicitor Gerald Kean’s appeal against a finding of professional misconduct arising out of his handling of a former client’s case. In a judgment today High Court President...
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 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 ArticleAuckland lawyer Minkai Huang struck off
An Auckland lawyer convicted of stealing from a client has been struck off. Minkai Huang was sentenced to community work for taking $9500 worth of fees from a client. The New...
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 ArticleConvicted judge faces being struck off solicitors roll for second time
A disgraced former district court judge is facing being struck off for a second time following a Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal on yesterday. In 2012, Heather Perrin was sentenced to two-and-a-half...
View ArticleBid to stop tribunal from placing sanctions on barrister dismissed
The High Court has dismissed a barrister’s action aimed at preventing an internal disciplinary tribunal from imposing sanctions on him. Lawyers for Alan Toal BL, who initiated the proceedings after an...
View ArticleGerald Kean professional misconduct appeal dismissed
The High Court has dismissed solicitor Gerald Kean's appeal against a finding of professional misconduct arising out of his handling of a former client's case. High Court President Justice Nicholas...
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 ArticleGerald Kean denials ‘made very, very little sense’, court told
Solicitor Gerald Kean’s denial of complaints made against him by a former client was “incoherent, confused and made very, very little sense”, the Law Society has told the High Court. This matter was...
View ArticleCourt told of ‘desperate efforts’ by Kean to cover up alleged failures
Solicitor Gerald Kean made “elaborate and increasingly desperate” efforts over months to cover up his alleged failures in dealing with a client’s case, the Law Society has told the High Court. 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 ArticleUlster University graduations: Full results and pictures December 15 2014
FACULTY OF LIFE AND HEALTH SCIENCES Doctor of Philosophy in Published Work Pass Patricia Margaret McIlwaine Doctor of Philosophy Pass Shaun Gordon Cardiff Conor James Cunningham Sinead Anne Currie...
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 ArticleDonald Trump's early lesson from legendary New York lawyer Roy Cohn: 'Tell...
Donald Trump was a brash scion of a real estate empire, a young developer anxious to leave his mark on New York. Roy Cohn was a legendary New York fixer, a ruthless lawyer in the hunt for new clients....
View ArticleEducation Instep Magazine Winter 2014 - higher education legal issues...
(Source: Eversheds LLP) Eduncation law msagazinetep Winter 2014 Higher education legal issues Strength in diversity of provision 2 Instep • Introduction by Diane Gilhooley Introduction by Diane...
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