Cindy McCarthy Yates
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Cindy McCarthy Yates, a solicitor previously practising as McCarthy Solicitors at 5 The Old Market, Market Square, Bandon, Co Cork, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [12313/DT86/13 and High Court 2014 no 83 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Cindy McCarthy Yates (respondent solicitor) On 25 March 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in her practice as a solicitor in that she: 1) Failed to comply with an undertaking dated 2 February 2011 furnished to Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank in relation to property at Co Cork and her named clients and borrowers in a timely manner or at all, 2) Failed to respond to the Society’s correspondence and, in particular, to the Society’s emails of 1 November 2012, 2 January 2013, and 29 January 2013 in a timely manner or at all, 3) Failed to attend the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 7 February 2013, despite being required to do so. The tribunal recommended that the matter be sent forward to the High Court and, on the 2 November 2015, in proceedings 2014 no 83 SA, the High Court ordered that: 1) The name of the respondent solicitor be struck from the Roll of Solicitors, 2) The respondent solicitor pay to the Law Society the costs of the proceedings before the disciplinary tribunal and the costs 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
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent guilty of misconduct for failing to comply with an undertaking to Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank, failing to respond to Law Society correspondence, and failing to attend a committee meeting. The matter was referred to the High Court, which on 2 November 2015 ordered her name struck from the Roll of Solicitors and that she pay the Society's costs of both proceedings, to be taxed in default of agreement. 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
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