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Gregory F O'Neill

JurisdictionIreland
BodyLaw Society of Ireland (Regulation) (LSI)
Professionsolicitor — Greg O’Neill Solicitors, Suite 109, The Capel Building, Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 7
Date03/03/2014

Allegation / charges

In the matter of Gregory F O’Neill, solicitor, formerly practising as Greg O’Neill Solicitors, Suite 109, The Capel Building, Mary’s Abbey, Dublin 7, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [3365/DT34/12 and High Court record 2014 no 7SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Greg O’Neill (respondent solicitor) On 19 September 2013, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of professional misconduct in that he failed to ensure that there was furnished to the Society an accountant’s report for the year ended 31 December 2010 within six months of that date, in breach of regulation 21(1) of the Solicitors’ Accounts Regulations 2001 (SI 421 of 2001). The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the President of the High Court and, on 3 March 2014, the President of the High Court ordered that the solicitor’s name be struck from the Roll of Solicitors and that the respondent solicitor pay the costs of the Society’s proceedings before the disciplinary tribunal and the cost of the High Court proceedings, to be taxed in default of agreement.

Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision

SanctionStrike Off
Dishonesty foundNo

The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Greg O'Neill guilty of professional misconduct for failing to furnish an accountant's report for the year ended 31 December 2010 within six months, in breach of regulation 21(1) of the Solicitors' Accounts Regulations 2001. The matter was referred to the President of the High Court, who on 3 March 2014 ordered that his name be struck from the Roll of Solicitors and that he pay the costs of both the disciplinary tribunal and High Court proceedings, to be taxed in default of agreement. No dishonesty finding was made.

Duties found breached:

⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]

Duties engaged

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