Solicitor Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions

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Name
Áine Kilfeather
Address
Kilfeather Keys Solicitors, 12 Market Street, Sligo
Date of Order
16/05/2019
Decision
 
In the matter of Áine Kilfeather, a solicitor practising as  a partner in Kilfeather Keys Solicitors at 12 Market Street, Sligo, and in the  matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2015 [2018/DT84]
Law Society of Ireland (applicant)
Áine Kilfeather (respondent solicitor)
On 16 May 2019, the Solicitors  Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of professional  misconduct in her practice as a solicitor in that she: 
1)   Failed to comply with  an undertaking furnished to KBC Bank on 26 August 2005 in respect of her named  client and property in Co Leitrim in a timely manner or at all, 
2)   Failed to respond to  the bank’s correspondence in connection with the undertaking, dated 17 January  2016, 26 February 2013, 7 August 2013, 2 January 2014, 29 April 2014, 9  February 2016, 21 March 2016, 7 February 2017 and 11 September 2017 in a timely  manner or at all, 
3)   Failed to respond to  the Society’s correspondence of 1 November 2017, 22 November 2017, 12 December  2017 and 22 June 2018 in a timely manner or at all, 
4)   Failed to attend a  meeting of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 10 July 2018, despite  being required to do so, 
5)   Failed to comply with  the direction made by the Complaints and Client Relations Committee at its  meeting of 27 February 2018 that she furnish to the Society a copy of a certificate  of title and a copy of the architects certificate no later than 28 March 2018. 
The tribunal ordered that the respondent  solicitor: 
1)   Stand advised and  admonished, 
2)   Pay a sum of €4,000  to the compensation fund, 
3)   Pay a sum of €2,012  as a contribution towards the whole of the costs of the applicant.