Daniel Murphy
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Daniel Murphy, a solicitor practising as principal of Daniel Murphy & Company, Solicitors, Macroom, Co Cork, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [3917/DT56/14 and High Court record no 2016/77 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Daniel Murphy (respondent solicitor) On 22 March 2016, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that, up to the date of the referral of the matter to the tribunal, he had: 1) Failed to comply with part or all of 37 specified undertakings, 2) Failed to respond adequately or at all to some or all of the correspondence sent to him by the applicant, 3) Failed to attend at a meeting of the applicant’s Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 3 September 2013, 4) Failed to comply with directions of the committee dated 11 December 2012 and 19 February 2013. The tribunal referred the matter to the High Court and, on 18 July 2016, the High Court ordered that: 1) The name of the respondent solicitor be struck from the Roll of Solicitors, 2) Costs in the amount of €2,500 be paid by the respondent solicitor to the applicant.
Findings — machine-extracted (anthropic-batch:claude-opus-4-8); verify against the decision
The Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found Daniel Murphy guilty of misconduct for failing to comply with 37 undertakings, failing to respond to Law Society correspondence, failing to attend a committee meeting, and failing to comply with committee directions. The matter was referred to the High Court, which ordered his name struck from the Roll of Solicitors and costs of €2,500 paid to the applicant.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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Source: https://www.lawsociety.ie/Public/disciplinarysearch/