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Name
Noel Brennan
Address
Joy Brennan & Company, Solicitors, 1 New Quay, Clonmel, Co Tipperary
Date of Order
23/07/2012
Decision
 
In the matter of Noel Brennan, a solicitor formerly practising as a partner in Joy Brennan & Company, Solicitors, at 1 New Quay, Clonmel, Co Tipperary, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2008 [4028/DT22/11 and 2012 no 62SA]
 Law Society of Ireland (applicant)
 Noel Brennan (respondent solicitor) 
  
 On 24 April 2012, the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he: 
 a)      Failed to comply with his undertaking to Bank of Scotland (Ireland) in respect of clients identified in the proceedings,
 b)      Failed to comply with his undertaking to Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank in respect of clients identified in the proceedings,
 c)       Failed to comply with his undertaking to ICS Building Society in respect of a client identified in the proceedings,
 d)      Failed to comply with his undertaking to Bank of Ireland in respect of a client identified in the proceedings,
 e)      Failed to comply with his undertaking to National Irish Bank in respect of a client identified in the proceedings,
 f)         Failed to comply with his undertaking to Ulster Bank in respect of clients identified in the proceedings,
 g)      Failed to comply with his undertaking to Allied Irish Bank in respect of clients identified in the proceedings,
 h)       Failed to comply with his undertaking to Permanent TSB in respect of clients identified in the proceedings,
 i)         Failed to comply with his undertaking to ACC Bank in respect of clients identified in the proceedings,
 j)         Failed to act properly or at all in or about the purchase of property for a named client,
 k)       In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of property at Urlingford, Co Kilkenny, obtained funds from Ulster Bank on foot of an undertaking dated 16 December 2005, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 l)         In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of property at Clonmel, obtained funds from Ulster Bank on foot of an undertaking dated 16 December 2005, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 m)    In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of property in Clonmel, obtained funds from First Active on foot of an undertaking dated 10 June 2005, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 n)       In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of property at Moangariff, obtained funds from National Irish Bank on foot of undertakings in November 2002 and April 2008, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 o)      In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of a property in Clonmel, obtained funds from Permanent TSB on foot of an undertaking dated 5 June 2007, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 p)      In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of property in Clonmel, obtained funds from ACC Bank on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 q)      In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of a property in Stillorgan, obtained funds from Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 r)        In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of a property in Pembroke Square, obtained funds from Bank of Ireland on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 s)       In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of a named property, obtained funds from Bank of Ireland Mortgage Bank on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 t)         In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of a named property, obtained funds from Ulster Bank on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 u)       In the course of acting for named clients in the purchase of a property at Burgess Court, obtained funds from IIB Homeloans on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 v)       In the course of acting for a named client in the purchase of a property at Fitton Street, obtained funds from Bank of Ireland on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking,
 w)     In the course of acting in respect of named clients in the purchase of a property at Kilsheelin, obtained funds from National Irish Bank on foot of an undertaking, but failed to perfect the bank’s security, in breach of his undertaking.
  
 The tribunal ordered that the matter go forward to the President of the High Court, and the President of the High Court on 23 July 2012 made an order striking the name of the respondent solicitor from the Roll of Solicitors and ordered that the respondent solicitor pay the costs of the Law Society of Ireland, to be taxed in default of agreement.