Paul Madden
Allegation / charges
In the matter of Paul Madden, a solicitor formerly practising as Paul Madden & Company, Solicitors, Fitzpatrick Square, Clones, Co Monaghan, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [10035/DT98/14 and High Court record 2015 no 53 SA] Law Society of Ireland (applicant) Paul Madden (respondent solicitor) On 11 March 2015, 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 in respect of named clients over property at Clones, Co Monaghan, to the complainant building society/bank dated 15 February 2007, 2) Failed to comply expeditiously, within a reasonable time, or at all with an undertaking given by him on behalf of a named client over property at Clones, Co Monaghan, to the complainant building society bank dated 5 March 2007, 3) 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 Aghaboy, Co Monaghan, to the complainant building society/bank by undertaking dated 26 July 2007, 4) 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 Clones, Co Monaghan to the complainant building society/bank by undertaking dated 3 December 2007, 5) 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 Clones, Co Monaghan, to the complainant building society/bank dated 13 December 2007, 6) Failed to comply expeditiously, within a reasonable time, or at all with an undertaking given by him on behalf of a named client over property at Newbliss, Co Monaghan, to the complainant building society/bank dated 26 May 2008. The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the High Court and, on 22 June 2015, the President of the High Court ordered that: 1) The name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors, 2) The respondent solicitor pay the whole of the Society’s costs and witness expenses in the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal proceedings, to be taxed in default of agreement, 3) The respondent solicitor pay to the Society 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 Paul Madden guilty of misconduct for failing to comply with six undertakings given to a building society/bank between 2007 and 2008 in respect of properties in Co Monaghan. The matter was referred to the High Court, where the President ordered on 22 June 2015 that his name be struck from the Roll of Solicitors and that he pay the Society's costs and witness expenses for both the Tribunal and High Court proceedings, to be taxed in default of agreement. No express finding of dishonesty was recorded.
Duties found breached:
⚠ figures not found verbatim in the source were dropped: ["extracted_from_register_summary"]
Duties engaged
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