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GAZETTE
Discipl inary Cases /Compensat ion Fund
Re: Robert Lee
practising as Lee's solicitors
Lord Edward Street
Kilmallock
Co. Limerick
and at
Lower Main Street
Kilfinane
Co. Limerick
22SA/1993
On 6 December 1993, the Acting
President of the High Court ordered
that Robert Lee, Solicitor, pay to the
Law Society a fine of £3,000 and
directed Robert Lee to take all appropr-
iate steps to have the complainants in
the disciplinary proceedings registered
as owners of property in Co. Limerick.
The costs of both the Disciplinary
Committee and the Petition were
awarded to the Society, to be taxed in
default of agreement.
The Court had before it the report of the
Chairman of the Disciplinary Com-
mittee of its hearing on 29 June 1993 in
which the Committee made a finding
that the solicitor was guilty of conduct
tending to bring the profession into
disrepute in that:
• he failed to have his firm carry out
the instructions of the complainants
to complete the registration of the
complainants' title;
• he allowed his firm to mislead the
complainants as to the reasons for the
delay in registration of their title;
• he failed to reply fully and frankly to
the complainants' queries as to delay
in completion of the registration of
their title;
• he allowed his firm to cause serious
material loss and inconvenience to
the complainants by failing to
complete their instructions;
• he failed to reply to the Society's
correspondence and to furnish
information requested by the Society;
• he misled the Society as to his
involvement in relation to the non-
registration of the complainants' title.
Re: Thomas Baldwin
practising as Early & Baldwin
27/28, Marino Mart
Fairview
Dublin 3
24SA/1993
On 13 December 1993, the Acting
President of the High Court ordered:
(a) that Thomas Gerard Baldwin,
Solicitor, stand censured regarding
his conduct as a solicitor;
(b) that he pay by way of fine to the
Law Society a sum of £2,000;
(c) that the said Thomas Gerard
Baldwin pay the Society the costs
of the proceedings both before the
Disciplinary Committee measured
in the sum of £350 and also the
costs of the Petition to the High
Court, to be taxed in default of
agreement.
The Court had before it a report of the
Chairman of the Disciplinary Com-
mittee of a hearing on 27 July 1993 in
which the Committee found misconduct
on the part of the solicitor in that he:
• failed to take proper action on behalf
of the complainants in relation to
their respective claims;
• deliberately misled the applicants in
relation to the progress of their
respective claims;
• wrongly advised the first named
complainant in respect of a loss of
earnings claim when in fact the claim
was one for material damages only;
• misled the complainants and told
untruths in respect of actuarial
reports, fixing dates for court
hearings, settlement talks with
General Accident Insurance
Company;
• failed to adequately address the
problem when it first came to his
notice and allowed the complaints to
be attended to by an unqualified
member of his staff.
• failed to adequately supervise his
office and the attention to work by his
unqualified staff.
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Compensation Fund
Payments - January, 1994
The following claim amounts were
admitted by the Compensation Fund
Committee and approved for payment
by the Council of the Law Society at
its meeting in January 1994.
IR£
Christopher Forde,
2,267.50
52 O'Connell Street,
Ennis,
Co. Clare.
Conor Killeen &
Elio Malocco,
Chatham House,
Chatham Street,
Dublin 2.
James C Glynn,
Dublin Road,
Tuam,
Co. Galway.
Peter M. Fortune,
11,768.88
38 Molesworth Street,
Dublin 2.
Jonathan PT Brooks,
7,000.00
17/18 Nassau Street,
Dublin 2.
112,282.57
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11,163.53
80,082.66