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GAZETTE APRIL . 1993
Disciplinary Cases
Re: Liam Lysaght
New Road,
Clondalkin,
' Dublin 22.
2SA/1993
Censure and fine - inaccurate and
untrue communication to another
firm of solicitors
On 8 March, 1993, the acting
President of the High Court ordered
that Liam Lysaght, solicitor, stand
censured regarding his conduct as a
solicitor and that he pay a fine to
the Law Society in the sum of £500.
The court had before it the report of
an enquiry by the Disciplinary
Committee of the High Court held
on 23 June, 1992. The finding of the
committee was that a letter dated 16
September, 1987 from the solicitor's
firm to another firm of solicitors
was inaccurate and untrue in that it
represented that the solicitor had
never acted for certain parties when
in fact he had. On these facts the
committee found the solicitor guilty
of professional misconduct.
The Acting President of the High
Court found that the Disciplinary
Committee was fully justified in its
finding. He further stated that a
solicitor's duty to his client could
not be clearer. He was not entitled
to be inaccurate. More importantly,
solicitors must tell the truth, not just
to clients but to everyone.
Costs were awarded to the Society.
English Agents: Agency work
undertaken for Irish solicitors in
both litigation and non-
contentious matters - including
legal aid. Fearon & Co.,
Solicitors, 12 The Broadway,
Woking, Surrey GU21 5AU.
.
Fax:
Co r r e s ponden ce
Quizzical Time Warp
The Editor,
Gazette,
Blackhall Place,
Dublin 7.
Sir,
How relieved one is to learn that the
Society can now provide a time-warp
service to members.
If ever a practitioner feels threatened
by "effluxion of time" - if the word
"lapse" acquires a sinister significance
as one timorously thumbs through the
Statue of Limitations or the Rules of
the Superior Courts in dread of
finding that the sands of time have
run through one's trembling fingers,
how nice to know that the alchemists
of Dublin 7 can not only stop the
clock - like Brussels signatories -
but actually wind it back like the used
car people!
For one dreadful moment I thought
that I had missed the Annual Quiz
night at the Royal Marine on the
31st October, 1992. Picture if you
will my sense of relief, nay rapture,
to read a little further down on page
75 of the March, 1993 issue that I
could yet avoid this disappointment
by booking early.
Words like "urgency" and
expressions like "time of the
essence" can now be stricken from
the lexicon!
Yours,
Bill Riordan,
Wilton Park House,
Wilton Place.
Please note that the date on the
notice for the Younger Members
Annual Quiz Night should have
stated 31 March, 1993. Nonetheless,
the quiz was a sell-out and raised
£2,500 for charity! - Ed.
Solicitors in the DPP's Office
The Editor,
Gazette,
Dear Madam,
I refer to the Viewpoint article in the
March edition and in particular to
the words "In recent times, the
Office of the Director of Public
Prosecutions has been opened up to
solicitors." In the interest of
historical accuracy and from a sense
of duty to the first Senior Legal
Assistant in that Office, the late
Walter Carroll, a well regarded and
very popular solicitor, I should state
that solicitors and barristers have
always been equally eligible for
appointment as legal assistants in
that Office since its inception and
have been so appointed in
approximately equal proportions.
Yours sincerely,
Michael Liddy,
Senior Legal Assistant,
Office of the Director of Public
Prosecutions,
14-16 Merrion Street,
Dublin 2. •
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