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Details for Aiden Barry

Name

Aiden Barry

Address

Aiden Barry Solicitor, Roche House, 8 Bank Place, Limerick, Co Limerick

Date of Order

28/04/2014

Decision

In the matter of Aiden Barry, solicitor, formerly practising as Aiden Barry Solicitor, Roche House, 8 Bank Place, Limerick, Co Limerick, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2011 [7243/DT58/13 and High Court record 2014 no 46 SA]

Law Society of Ireland (applicant)

Aiden Barry (respondent solicitor)

On 7 January 2014, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he:

a)    Failed expeditiously, within a reasonable time or at all, to pay stamp duty on behalf of the complainants in relation to the purchase of a site in Co Clare, despite being put in funds to do so,

b)    Failed expeditiously, within a reasonable time or at all, to register the interest of the complainants on the property in Co Clare,

c)    Misrepresented in an email of 26 April 2012 that he had a certificate from the Revenue Commissioners, but it was lost and a new certificate would be reissued, where this was not the position as confirmed in an email of 25 June 2012,

d)    Failed expeditiously, within a reasonable time or at all, to comply with the directions of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee made at its meeting on 15 May 2012,

e)    Failed expeditiously, within a reasonable time or at all, to comply with the directions of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee made at its meeting on 26 June 2012,

f)    Failed to respond to correspondence from the Society either in a timely manner or at all, in particular, letters dated 16 March 2012, 17 May 2012, 2 July 2012 and 10 September 2012,

g)    Failed to attend a meeting of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 15 May 2012 as required by letter from the Society dated 9 May 2012,

h)    Failed to attend a meeting of the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 16 October 2012 as directed by the committee on 4 September 2012.

The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the High Court, and the President of the High Court, on 28 April 2014, made the following orders:

a)    That the name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors,

b)    That the respondent pay the Society the costs of the High Court proceedings and the costs of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal, to include witness expenses to be taxed in default of agreement.