Ciaran R Callan
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Ciaran R Callan, a solicitor formerly practising as Callan & Company, Solicitors, River Bank House, Dodder Park Drive, Dublin 14, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2008 [4316/DT09/08 and High Court record no 2009 no 73 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Ciaran R Callan (respondent solicitor) On 25 June 2008, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: a) Failed to honour an undertaking given to the complainant contained in a letter dated 13 June 2002, whereby he undertook to furnish a certificate of title and title documents to a named property formerly belonging to a named client, deceased, to the complainant’s client, a named financial institution, b) Failed to honour an undertaking given to the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 12 September 2007, whereby he undertook to send a written report by 5 October 2007 to the Society regarding the current position as to his compliance with the undertaking given to the complainant. The tribunal directed that: a) The respondent solicitor is not a fit person to be a member of the solicitors’ profession, b) The name of the respondent solicitor be struck off the Roll of Solicitors, c) The respondent solicitor pay the whole of the costs of the Law Society of Ireland, including witness expenses, to be taxed by a taxing master of the High Court in default of agreement. The tribunal directed that the matter be referred forward to the High Court and, on 13 July 2009, the President of the High Court ordered that: 1) The name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors, 2) The Law Society do recover the costs of the proceedings herein and the costs of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal as against the respondent when taxed or ascertained.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Ciaran R Callan guilty of misconduct for failing to honour an undertaking to furnish title documents to a financial institution and failing to honour an undertaking to report to the Society. The tribunal found him not fit to be a member of the profession and directed he be struck off and pay the Society's costs. The President of the High Court on 13 July 2009 ordered his name struck off the Roll and awarded costs of both proceedings to the Law Society, to be taxed.
Duties found breached:
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