Patrick McCarthy

Allegation / charges

In the matter of Patrick McCarthy, solicitor, formerly practising as McCarthy & Co, Second Floor, Building 1000, City Gate, Mahon, Cork, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [7748/DT131/10 and High Court record no 2013/39 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Patrick McCarthy (respondent solicitor) On 27 January 2011, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: a) Failed to comply with his solicitor’s undertaking to a lending institution, dated 3 December 2007, up to the date of the swearing of the Society’s affidavit, b) Failed to reply to correspondence from the lending institution, c) Failed to reply to correspondence from the Society, d) F ailed to attend meetings of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee, e) Misled the Society in representing to the Society that documents had been sent to the Property Registration Authority when they had not, f) Failed to discharge the contribution towards the costs of the investigation of the complaint of €550, as directed by the Complaints and Client Relations Committee, up to the date of the swearing of the Society’s affidavit. The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the High Court with the recommendation that: a) The respondent solicitor not be permitted to practise as a sole practitioner or in a partnership, that he be permitted only 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 Society, b) The respondent solicitor pay the whole of the costs of the Society, to be taxed by a taxing master of the High Court in default of agreement. The President of the High Court, on 8 April 2013, made the following orders: a) That the name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors, b) That the Society do recover the costs of the proceedings before the High Court and the costs of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal as against the respondent solicitor, to be taxed in default of agreement.

Duties engaged

• No improper communication with the court
• No conflict between current clients
• Handle inadvertently received material
• No improper use of client money

Other decisions involving this respondent

• Decision 2013-04-08 · LSI · Ireland
• Decision 2013-04-08 · LSI · Ireland

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