Michael Mooney

Allegation / charges

Notice: the High Court Record no: 2009 no 52 SA In the matter of Michael Mooney, a solicitor formerly practising under the style and title of Osborne MacGettigan & Co, Solicitors, Milford, Co Donegal and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2002 Take notice that, by order of the High Court made on Monday 18 May 2009, it was ordered: 1) That the name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors, 2) That the respondent solicitor do cooperate fully in any further application that might have to be made to the Circuit Court on behalf of named clients in order to cancel the original registration of them as full owners as of 28 July 2005 of folio 4296F Co Donegal, grounded as it was on the admitted forged deed of transfer dated 22 December 2004, in order that the named clients are again registered as full owners of the said folio on foot of their beneficial interest deriving from other named clients, whose interest derived from the purchase transaction closed by the respondent solicitor on behalf of those other named clients on 22 August 1995 and the deed of transfer delivered on that date from a named third party (as legal personal representative of another named third party, deceased, the then registered full owner) to the said other named clients, whose resulting legal entitlement to be registered as full owners has never taken place or, apparently, noted in any way by the Property Registration Authority, formerly the Land Registry, 3) That the respondent solicitor pay the sum of €10,000 as compensation to the Compensation Fund of the Law Society of Ireland, 4) That the Law Society 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. John Elliot, Registrar of Solicitors June 2009

Duties engaged

• Honesty

Documents

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