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Name
Seamus P McConnell
Address
Tullamore, Co Offaly
Date of Order
28/01/2013
Decision
 
In the matter of Seamus P McConnell, solicitor, of  Tullamore, Co Offaly, and in the matter of the Solicitors  Acts 1954-2008 [6626/DT83/11, 6626/DT84/11 and High Court record 2012 no  87SA] 
Law Society of Ireland (applicant)
Seamus P McConnell (respondent solicitor)
6626/DT83/11
On 7 June 2012, 3 July 2012 and 9  October 2012, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal sat to consider a complaint  against the respondent solicitor and found that he was guilty of misconduct in  his practice as a solicitor in that he:
1)   Failed to register  his client’s title to a property at Lehenaghmore, Co Cork, in an identified  folio in a timely manner or at all, having purchased same in 2001,
2)   Failed to respond to  the Society’s correspondence dated 7 January 2011, 10 May 2011, and 10 June  2011 in a timely manner or at all.
6626/DT84/11
On 7 June 2012, 3 July 2012 and 9  October 2012, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal sat to consider a complaint  against the respondent solicitor and found that he was guilty of misconduct in  his practice as a solicitor in that he:
1)   Failed to comply with  an undertaking dated 21 April 2005 in connection with a property in  Lehenaghmore, Co Cork, furnished to Bank of Ireland Mortgages, in a timely  manner or at all,
2)   Failed to respond to  the Society’s correspondence and, in particular, the Society’s letters of 17  December 2010, 5 May 2011, and 10 June 2011 in a timely manner or at all,
3)   Misled the Society in  a letter dated 11 February 2011, indicating that the registration was pending  and a full update would be furnished to the bank within seven days, when this  was not the case.
The tribunal, having heard the two  matters, directed that the Society bring the matters before the President of  the High Court and, on 28 January 2013, the President of the High Court ordered:
1)   That the respondent  solicitor should not be permitted to practise as a sole practitioner or in  partnership without the leave of the Society, that he be permitted only to  practise as an assistant solicitor in the employment and under the direct  control and supervision of another solicitor of at least ten years’ standing,  to be approved in advance by the Society,
2)   That the respondent  solicitor do pay to the Society the costs of the Solicitors Disciplinary  Tribunal and of the proceedings in the High Court, to be taxed in default of agreement.