Thomas O’Donoghue
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Thomas O’Donoghue, a solicitor formerly practising as principal of O’Donoghue & Co, Solicitors, 2 Egan’s Lane, Tuam, Co Galway, and in the matter of an application by the Law Society of Ireland to the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2015 [8824/DT40/15; 8824/DT41/15, and High Court record 2018 no 134 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Thomas O’Donoghue (respondent solicitor) 8824/DT40/15 On 21 May 2018, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that, up to the date of referral to the tribunal, he: 1) Failed to comply with an undertaking dated 18 September 2007, provided to the complainant, in a timely manner or at all, 2) Failed to respond adequately or at all to some or all of the correspondence sent to him by the complainant. 8824/DT41/15 On 21 May 2018, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: 1) Failed to comply with an undertaking dated 7 May 2010, provided to the complainant, in a timely manner or at all, 2) Failed to respond to correspondence sent to him by the Society. The tribunal ordered that the Law Society bring its findings and reports in both matters before the High Court. On 3 December 2018, the High Court ordered that: 1) The name of the respondent solicitor be struck off the Roll of Solicitors, 2) The respondent solicitor pay the applicant’s costs before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal and the High Court.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Thomas O'Donoghue guilty of misconduct in two matters relating to failures to comply with undertakings (dated 18 September 2007 and 7 May 2010) and failures to respond to correspondence from the complainant and the Law Society. On 3 December 2018, the High Court ordered that his name be struck off the Roll of Solicitors and that he pay the applicant's costs before the Tribunal and the High Court. No express finding of dishonesty was made.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
Documents
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Source: https://www.lawsociety.ie/Public/disciplinarysearch/