Solicitor Disciplinary Tribunal Decisions

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Details for Greg (otherwise John G) Casey

Name

Greg (otherwise John G) Casey

Address

Casey & Co, Solicitors, at North Main Street, Bandon, Co Cork

Date of Order

16/01/2013

Decision

In the matter of Greg (otherwise John G) Casey, formerly practising in the solicitors’ firm of Casey & Co, Solicitors, at North Main Street, Bandon, Co Cork, and in the matter of Mairead Casey, a solicitor formerly practising as the principal of the solicitors’ firm of Casey & Co, Solicitors, at North Main Street, Bandon, Co Cork, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2002 [5355-8372/DT104/08 and 2012 no 76 SA]

Law Society of Ireland (applicant)

Greg (otherwise John G) Casey (first-named respondent solicitor)

Mairead Casey (second-named respondent solicitor)

On 27 June 2012, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the first-named respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he:

a)     Misrepresented to a lending institution, in an undertaking given to that lending institution on his own behalf, dated 4 October 2001, that he was a partner in the practice of Casey & Co, Solicitors,

b)     Subsequently failed to comply with his undertaking to the bank, in that he failed to complete the legal formalities in relation to the purchase of the property concerned so as to ensure that the bank obtained a good marketable title to the property free from any encumbrances,

c)     He further failed to comply with his undertaking, in that he failed to secure that the bank obtained a valid first legal mortgage or charge on the property,

d)     Failed to reply to multiple correspondence from the bank.

On 27 June 2012, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the second-named respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in her practice as a solicitor in that she failed to supervise the first-named respondent solicitor, in that he gave the relevant undertaking to the bank without her knowledge.

The tribunal ordered that the matters go forward to the High Court, and the President of the High Court, on 3 December 2012, made the following orders on consent:

1)     That the second-named respondent solicitor (Mairead Casey) not be permitted to practise as a sole practitioner or in partnership; that she 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 there be no order for costs made against the second-named respondent solicitor.

On 16 January 2013, the President of the High Court made the following orders:

1)     That the name of the first-named respondent solicitor (that is, Greg (otherwise John G) Casey) shall be struck off the Roll of Solicitors,

2)     That the Society do recover the costs of the High Court proceedings and the costs of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal as against the first-named respondent, to be taxed in default of agreement.