Solicitor Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions

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Back to listDetails for Angela Farrell
Name
Angela Farrell
Address
Farrell Solicitors, 28 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1
Date of Order
24/06/2014
Decision
 
In the matter of Angela Farrell, a solicitor formerly  practising as Farrell Solicitors, 28 North Great George’s Street, Dublin 1, and  in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [6102/DT112/13  and 2014 no 57SA] 
Law Society of Ireland (applicant)
Angela Farrell (respondent solicitor)
On 11 February 2014, the Solicitors  Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in  her practice as a solicitor in that she:
1)  Failed utterly to  protect the interests of her named client by allowing a judgment to be obtained  against her client and registered against her client’s property in respect of  costs,
2)  Failed to hand over  the client’s file to her client’s new solicitors in  a timely manner or at all, despite being requested and instructed by them to do  so,
3)  Failed to respond to  correspondence received from the complainant,
4)  Failed to respond to  the Society’s correspondence and, in particular, to the Society’s letters of 31  October 2012, 19 November 2012, 10 January 2013, 26 February 2013 in a timely  manner or at all,
5)  Failed to comply in a  timely manner or at all with the direction of the Complaints and Client  Relations Committee made at its meeting on 25 April 2013 to make the file  available to the complainant within seven days.
The tribunal ordered that the matter  would go forward to the President of the High Court with a recommendation that  the solicitor’s name be struck off the Roll of Solicitors and, on 24 June 2014,  the President of the High Court made the following orders:
1)  That the name of the respondent  solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors,
2)  That the respondent solicitor  do make restitution in the sum of €40,600 to her client,
3)  That the respondent  solicitor do pay to the Society the costs of the proceedings in the High Court  and the costs of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal  including witnesses expenses, to be taxed in default of agreement.