Ciaran Quinn
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Ciaran Quinn, a solicitor previously practising as Quinn Solicitors at Unit 118, First Floor, Baldoyle Industrial Estate, Baldoyle, Dublin 13, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [7620/DT13/14 and High Court record 2015 no 32 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Ciaran Quinn (respondent solicitor) On 4 December 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of professional misconduct in that he: 1) Raised 36 separate invoices between 3 March 2008 and 10 February 2010, totalling €65,588.15, in respect of a named estate, without the knowledge or agreement of the administrator, 2) Deducted €65,588.15 in total from the said estate from March 2008 to February 2010 without the knowledge or agreement of the executor, 3) Failed to issue a section 68 letter in the named estate. The tribunal referred the matter to the High Court and, on 10 October 2016, the High Court ordered that: 1) The respondent solicitor not be permitted to practise as a sole practitioner or in sole partnership; that he be permitted to practise as an assistant solicitor in the employment and under the direct control and supervision of another solicitor of at least ten years’ standing, to be approved in advance by the Law Society of Ireland, 2) That the respondent solicitor pay the whole of the costs of the Law Society, to be taxed by a taxing master of the High Court in default of agreement, execution and registration of the said costs to be stayed until after 1 June 2017.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Ciaran Quinn guilty of professional misconduct for raising 36 invoices totalling €65,588.15 against a named estate and deducting that sum without the knowledge or agreement of the administrator/executor, and for failing to issue a section 68 letter. The matter was referred to the High Court, which on 10 October 2016 barred him from practising as a sole practitioner or in sole partnership, permitting practice only as a supervised assistant solicitor, and ordered him to pay the Law Society's costs (to be taxed in default of agreement, with execution stayed until after 1 June 2017). No express finding of dishonesty was recorded.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
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Source: https://www.lawsociety.ie/Public/disciplinarysearch/