Solicitor Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions

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Details for Mark Newman

Name

Mark Newman

Address

Actons Newman, Newmount House, 22-24 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2

Date of Order

13/11/2019

Decision

In the matter of Mark Edmund Doyle, Mark Newman, and Michael Doyle, formerly practising under the style of Actons Newman, Newmount House, 22-24 Lower Mount Street, Dublin 2, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2015 [2018/DT94]

Law Society of Ireland (applicant)

Mark Edmund Doyle (first-named respondent solicitor)

Mark Newman (second-named respondent solicitor)

Michael Doyle (third-named respondent solicitor)

On 13 November 2019, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitors guilty of professional misconduct in that they failed to ensure that there was furnished to the Law Society a final reporting accountant’s report, in breach of regulation 33(2) of the Solicitors Accounts Regulations 2014 (SI 516 of 2014).

The tribunal ordered that the respondent solicitors:

1)   Stand advised and admonished,

2)   That the first-named respondent solicitor pay a sum of €606 as a contribution towards the whole of the costs of the applicant,

3)   That the second-named respondent solicitor and the third-named respondent solicitor each pay a sum of €303 as a contribution towards the whole of the costs of the applicant.