Aiden Barry
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Aiden Barry, solicitor, formerly practising as Aiden Barry Solicitor, Roche House, 8 Bank Place, Limerick, Co Limerick, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [7243/DT59/13 and High Court record 2014 no 47 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Aiden Barry (respondent solicitor) On 7 January 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: a) Failed expeditiously, within a reasonable time or at all, to register a charge on a property and transfer €50,000 to a third party in accordance with the instructions of the complainant, b) Caused or allowed the complainant to be exposed to civil litigation for the payment of the €50,000 plus damages, interest and costs, c) Failed to respond adequately or at all to the Society’s correspondence, in particular, letters dated 21t February 2012, 8 March 2012 and 21 March 2012 respectively, d) Through his failure to respond to the Society’s correspondence, caused the Society to have to make an application to the High Court pursuant to section 10(A) of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 199 4 (as amended by substitution) for orders requiring him to respond to the Society’s correspondence and attend before the Complaints and Client Relations Committee meeting on 15 May 2012, e) Breached an order made by the President of the High Court on 30 April 2012 directing him to attend a meeting of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 15 May 2012 by not so attending, f) Failed expeditiously, within a reasonable time or at all, to honour an agreement made with the complainant whereby he agreed to pay the outstanding sum of €50,000 to a specified third party, as set out in his email to the Society of 14 May 2012 and advised to the President of the High Court on 11 June 2012, g) Failed without reasonable excuse to attend a meeting of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 3 April 2012, as required by letter from the Society dated 26 March 2012. The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the High Court, and the President of the High Court, on 28 April 2014, made the following orders: a) That the name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors, b) That the respondent pay the Society the costs of the High Court proceedings and the costs of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, to include witness expenses to be taxed in default of agreement.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Aiden Barry guilty of misconduct for failing to register a charge and transfer €50,000 per the complainant's instructions, exposing the complainant to litigation, failing to respond to the Law Society's correspondence, breaching a High Court order to attend committee meetings, and failing to honour a payment agreement. On 28 April 2014, the President of the High Court ordered that his name be struck from the Roll of Solicitors and that he pay the Society's costs of both the High Court and Tribunal proceedings. No express finding of dishonesty was made.
Duties found breached:
- Disclose adverse law to the court
- Proper basis for allegations
- No improper communication with the court
- No improper use of client money
- Prompt accounting and return of money
- No baseless or threatened misconduct report
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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