Solicitor Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions

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Name
Paul Lambert
Address
Merrion Legal, Solicitors & Community Trademark Agents, Suite 12, Butlers Court, Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2
Date of Order
02/07/2015
Decision
 
In  the matter of Paul Lambert, a solicitor practising as Merrion Legal, Solicitors  & Community Trademark Agents, Suite 12, Butlers Court, Sir John Rogerson’s  Quay, Dublin 2, and in the matter of the Solicitors  Acts 1954-2011 [8776/DT62/11 and High Court record no  5SA/2015]
Law  Society of Ireland (applicant)
Paul  Lambert (respondent solicitor)
On 22 July 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the  respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in  that he:
1)   Failed  to ensure compliance with Merrion Legal Services’ undertaking dated 17 November  2006 to the complainant bank to register a first legal charge in favour of the  complainant over a named property,
2)   Failed  to reply adequately to the complainant’s letters dated 30 September 2009, 8  March 2010, and 16 February 2010,
3)   Failed  to reply adequately to the Society’s correspondence dated 7 May 2010, 26 May  2010, 28 June 2010, 15 October 2010, 9 December 2010, 17 December 2010, and 5  January 2011,
4)   Breached  section 3(d) of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1960, as  substituted by section 7(d) of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 2002, when  he allowed a solicitor to practise as a solicitor in Merrion Legal Services  when he knew or ought to have known upon reasonable enquiry that a practising  certificate was not in force in respect of that solicitor, in breach of section  56 of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act 1994.
The tribunal ordered that the matter should go forward to the High  Court and, on 2 July 2015, the High Court ordered that:
1)   The name  of the respondent solicitor be struck from the Roll of Solicitors,
2)   The  respondent solicitor do pay to the Society its costs of the within proceedings  and of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal when taxed  and ascertained in default of agreement.