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Details for Ciaran R Callan

Name

Ciaran R Callan

Address

Callan & Company, Solicitors, River Bank House, Dodder Park Drive, Dublin 14

Date of Order

13/07/2009

Decision

In the matter of Ciaran R Callan, a solicitor formerly practising as Callan & Company, Solicitors, River Bank House, Dodder Park Drive, Dublin 14, and in the matter of the

Solicitors Acts 1954-2008 [4316/DT07/08 and High Court record no 2009 no 72 SA]

Law Society of Ireland (applicant)
Ciaran R Callan (respondent solicitor)

On 25 June 2008, 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 in letter dated 11 January 2000, whereby he undertook to deal with all reasonable Land Registry queries in relation to a transaction involving a named property for a named client,
b) Failed to honour an undertaking given to the Complaints and Client Relations Committee on 12 September 2007, whereby he undertook to send a written report by 5 October 2007 to the Society regarding the current position as to his compliance with the undertaking given by him to the complainant,
c) Misled the Society in a telephone conversation on 12 July 2007, informing the Society that the matter was resolved, when it was not,
d) Misled the Society in a letter dated 19 July 2007, stating that the deed was re-executed, whereas it still required a second signature.

The tribunal recommended that:
a) The respondent solicitor is not a fit and proper person to be a member of the solicitors’ profession,
b) The name of the respondent solicitor be struck off the Roll of Solicitors,
c) 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 13 July 2009, the President of the High Court ordered that:
1) The name of the respondent solicitor shall be struck from the Roll of Solicitors,
2) The Law Society do recover the costs of the proceedings herein and the costs of the proceedings before the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal as against the respondent when taxed or ascertained.