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Details for David Walsh

Name

David Walsh

Address

David Walsh & Co, Solicitors, 12 Mount Street, Mullingar, Co Westmeath

Date of Order

12/01/2015

Decision

In the matter of David Walsh, solicitor, formerly practising as David Walsh & Co, Solicitors, at 12 Mount Street, Mullingar, Co Westmeath, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [4550/DT134/12 and High Court record 2014 no 137 SA]

Law Society of Ireland (applicant)

David Walsh (respondent solicitor)

On 7 November 2013 and 18 February 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he:

1)   Failed to honour expeditiously, within a reasonable time, or at all an undertaking given by him to the first complainant in letter dated 13 June 2002, whereby he undertook to discharge a loan in the sum of €26,000 plus interest accrued thereon out of the sale of his client’s property situated in Co Westmeath,

2)   Failed to honour expeditiously, within a reasonable time, or at all an undertaking dated 19 May 2004 given by him to his former client, whereby he undertook to forward to his former client the sum of €20,000 upon the closing of the sale of a property in Co Westmeath on behalf of a construction company,

3)   Gave multiple undertakings over the same property in Co Westmeath to the first complainant in 2002, a named bank in 2003, and his former client in 2004,

4)   Gave an undertaking to his former client on 19 May 2004 without disclosing the prior undertakings to the first complainant in 2002 and a named bank on 13 June 2003,

5)   Failed to protect the interests of his client, the second complainant, by failing to ensure that he was independently advised at the time of settling the proceedings taken against the respondent solicitor by a named bank.

The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the High Court and, on 12 January 2015, the President of the High Court – noting the undertaking by the respondent solicitor not to seek an extension of time to appeal any of the strike-off orders previously made (the court having previously struck the name of the respondent solicitor off the Roll of Solicitors on seven occasions on 27 May 2014) – ordered that:

1)   The court does not make a strike-off order against the respondent solicitor,

2)   The court makes no order as to costs.