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Name
Joseph Traynor
Address
Traynor & Company, Solicitors, 86 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co Louth
Date of Order
05/07/2010
Decision
 
In the matter of  Joseph Traynor, solicitor, formerly practising as Traynor & Company,  Solicitors, 86 Clanbrassil Street, Dundalk, Co Louth, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954-2008 [5554/DT126/09 and High Court record no 2010 no 59 SA]
 Law Society of  Ireland (applicant)
 Joseph Traynor  (respondent solicitor)
  
 On 18 March 2010, the  Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal found the respondent solicitor guilty of  misconduct in his practice as a solicitor in that he:
 a)       Failed to  honour an undertaking given to the complainant’s clients, Start Mortgages  Limited, in respect of his named client, involving property at Rosehill,  Mullagh, Co Cavan, in a solicitor’s undertaking dated 25 January 2008, whereby  he undertook to do the following:
 i)         To register  the mortgage in the appropriate registry to ensure that the complainant’s  clients, Start Mortgages Limited, obtained the first legal charge on the  property,
 ii)       To, as soon  as practicable thereafter, register the first legal charge on the property and  to lodge with the lender, Start Mortgages Limited, all deeds and documents  properly stamped and registered,
 iii)    As soon as practicable after registration of  Start Mortgages Limited first legal mortgage of the property, to lodge the  original mortgage with the lender, Start Mortgages Limited,
 iv)    To ensure the borrowers acquiring the property  obtained good marketable title to it or, where the borrower already owned the  property, to satisfy himself that such borrower had good marketable title to  it.
 b)       Failed to  adequately or at all respond to the complainant’s correspondence, in particular  letters dated 9 December 2008, 9 January 2009, 28 January 2009, 16 February  2009 and 26 February 2009 respectively.
  
 The tribunal directed:
 a)       That the  respondent solicitor is not a fit person to be a member of the solicitors’  profession,
 b)       That the  name of the respondent solicitor be struck off the Roll of Solicitors,
 c)        That the  respondent solicitor pay restitution in the sum of €180,000 to Start Mortgages,
 d)       That the  respondent solicitor pay the whole of the costs of the Law Society of Ireland,  including witness expenses, to be taxed by a taxing master of the High Court in  default of agreement.
  
 The tribunal directed  that the matter be referred forward to the High Court and, on 5 July 2010, the  President of the High Court ordered:
 1)       That the  name of the respondent solicitor be struck from the Roll of Solicitors,
 2)       That the  respondent solicitor pay the sum of €180,000 as restitution to Start Mortgages  Limited,
 3)       That the  applicant forward the papers in respect of this application to the Director of  Public Prosecutions,
 4)       That the  respondent solicitor surrender his passport forthwith to An Garda Síochána,
 5)       That the  respondent solicitor pay the applicant the costs of the High Court proceedings,  together with the costs of the disciplinary tribunal proceedings, to include  witness expenses, to be taxed in default of agreement.