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GAZETTE
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1990
The Disciplinary
Committee Annual Report
Committee:
Walter Beatty,
Chairman
W. B. Allen
Terence Dixon
Michael Hogan
Donal Kelliher
Elma Lynch
William A. Osborne
Moya Quinlan
Grattan d'Esterre Roberts
Andrew F. Smyth
Between the 1st September 1988
and the 31st August 1989 the
Disciplinary Committee met on 24
occasions.
The following applications were
considered by the Committee
during this period:-
NEW APP L I CAT I ONS
52
Law Society
Prima facie cases found
38
No prima facie case found
2
Leave to withdraw before inquiry
directed
3
Private
No prima facies cases found 7
Prima facie decision
adjourned
2
At Hearing
38
Law Society
Misconduct
19
No misconduct
3
Adjourned generally
1
Leave to withdraw after
inquiry directed
2
Application dismissed
1
Adjourned
12
Applications from previous
year
14
At hearing
Law Society
Misconduct
5
No misconduct
2
Adjourned generally
1
Adjourned
4
Leave to withdraw after
inquiry directed
1
Private
Adjourned
1
Subject matter of complaints
Circuit Court Action
Conveyancing
Personal Injuries Action
Practising Certificate
Probate
Solicitors' Accounts
Regulations
Principal grounds on which
the Committee found
misconduct
Breaches of the Solicitors'
Accounts Regulations.
Delay in complying with an
undertaking and in furnishing a
release of a mortgage.
Failure to return stamp duty and
registration fees.
Failure to stamp a deed or
register title.
Delay in the completion of a sale
of lands.
Failure to advise a client in
relation to the terms of a loan or to
recommend that he should be
independently advised in regard
thereto.
Failure to properly protect a
client's interest in respect of the
purchase of a house.
Failure to advise a client of a
situation with a potential for a
conflict of interest or to advise him
to take independent advice.
Failure to advise a client properly
or at all in respect of the purchase
of a house or in respect of a bridg-
ing loan arrangement - as a con-
sequence the client suffered loss.
Failure to account to a client in
relation to the proceeds of a sale.
Failure to notify clients that a
Circuit Court action was listed.
Delay in processing a personal
injuries claim.
Failure to forward to the Revenue
Commissioners an Inheritance Tax
Return.
Retention of a sum of money
from a settlement cheque and
failure to account fully for it.
Failure to inform a client of the
amount of party and party costs or
to seek his instructions before
agreeing same.
Failure to furnish an itemised
account in respect of a solicitor/
client charge.
Delay in the completion of an
Administration of an Estate.
Failure to apply for a Practising
Certificate.
Misled the Law Society.
Failure to reply to correspond-
ence from the Society, the com-
plainants or colleagues.
Failure to attend meetings of the
Registrar's and Compensation
Fund Committees.
Cases presented to the High
Court between the 1st
September 1988 and the
31st August 1989
17
Name of respondent struck
off the Roll
3
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