Decision record
Ruairi O’Ceallaigh
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Ruairi O’Ceallaigh, a solicitor formerly practising in the firm of Sean O’Ceallaigh, Solicitors, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [9022/DT120/12 and 2013 no 115SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Ruairi O’Ceallaigh (respondent solicitor) On 23 May 2013 and 15 October 2013, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal sat to consider a case against the respondent solicitor. The tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: a) Instructed a solicitor in his practice to furnish an undertaking to ACC Bank dated 3 May 2007 in respect of a named property for the solicitor’s private borrowing, and failed to ensure that same was complied with in a timely manner or at all, b) Instructed a solicitor in his practice to furnish an undertaking to ACC Bank dated 3 May 2007 in respect of a further property for the solicitor’s private borrowing, and failed to ensure that same was complied with in a timely manner or at all. The tribunal directed the Society to bring the matter before the President of the High Court and, on 13 January 2014, the president made an order striking the name of the respondent solicitor off the Roll of Solicitors and made an order for the costs of the proceedings to be taxed in default of agreement.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Ruairi O'Ceallaigh guilty of misconduct for instructing a solicitor in his practice to furnish two undertakings to ACC Bank in respect of his private borrowing and failing to ensure they were complied with. The matter was brought before the President of the High Court, who on 13 January 2014 ordered his name struck off the Roll of Solicitors, with costs to be taxed in default of agreement.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
No documents recorded.
Source: https://www.lawsociety.ie/Public/disciplinarysearch?viewAll=True