David Walsh
Allegation / charges
In the matter of David Walsh, solicitor, formerly practising as David Walsh & Co, Solicitors, at 12 Mount Street, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [4550/DT118/13 and High Court record 2014 no 133 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) David Walsh (respondent solicitor) On 16 July 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: 1) Failed expeditiously, within a reasonable time, or at all to register the complainant’s unencumbered ownership of a property in Co Westmeath, 2) Failed to respond to the complainant’s queries. The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the High Court and, on 12 January 2015, the President of the High Court - noting the undertaking by the respondent solicitor not to seek an extension of time to appeal any of the strike-off orders previously made (the court having previously struck the name of the respondent solicitor off the Roll of Solicitors on seven occasions on 27 May 2014) - ordered that: 1) The court does not make a strike-off order against the respondent solicitor, 2) The court makes no order as to costs.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found David Walsh guilty of misconduct for failing to register a complainant's unencumbered ownership of a property and failing to respond to the complainant's queries. The matter went to the High Court, which, given that the respondent had already been struck off on seven prior occasions and undertook not to appeal those orders, made no strike-off order and no order as to costs.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Other decisions involving this respondent
Matched by respondent name — may include a different person with the same name.
Documents
No documents recorded.
Source: https://www.lawsociety.ie/Public/disciplinarysearch/