Oliver Hanrahan
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Oliver Hanrahan, solicitor, formerly practising as Hanrahan Rynne Solicitors, 3B Riverside Business Park, Ennis, Co Clare, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [9381/DT132/13 and High Court record 2014 no 149 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Oliver Hanrahan (respondent solicitor) On 18 June 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: 1) Failed to comply expeditiously, within a reasonable time, or at all with an undertaking given by him on behalf of named clients over property at Ennistymon, Co Clare, to ACC Bank Plc on 23 May 2005, 2) Failed to reply to the complainant’s correspondence and, in particular, letters dated 23 January 2008, 23 February 2010, 18 April 2011, 1 September 2011, 4 November 2011, and 6 December 2011 respectively, 3) Failed to comply with the directions of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee meeting on 4 September 2012, 4) Failed to comply with the directions of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee meeting on 16 October 2012, 5) Failed to comply with the directions of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee meeting on 11 December 2012, 6) Failed to reply adequately or at all to the Society’s correspondence and, in particular, letters dated 5 January 2012, 24 January 2012, 9 March 2012, 5 June 2012, 31 July 2012, 21 August 2012, 5 September 2012, 19 October 2012 and 14 December 2012. The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the High Court and, on 26 January 2015, the President of the High Court ordered that the name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
Solicitor Oliver Hanrahan was found guilty of misconduct by the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal on 18 June 2014 for failing to comply with an undertaking to ACC Bank, failing to reply to the complainant's and the Society's correspondence, and failing to comply with directions of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee. The matter was referred to the High Court, where the President ordered on 26 January 2015 that his name be struck from the Roll of Solicitors. No express finding of dishonesty was made.
Duties found breached:
- No improper communication with the court
- Complaints procedure and handling
- Honour professional undertakings
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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