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Details for Thomas Flood

Name

Thomas Flood

Address

2 The Gap, Barndarrig, Co Wicklow

Date of Order

06/03/2006

Decision

THE HIGH COURT 2006

No 7 SA

In the matter of Thomas Flood, solicitor, and in the matter of the Solicitors Acts 1954 to 2002

Law Society of Ireland (applicant)
Thomas Flood (respondent solicitor)

On 6 March 2006, the president of the High Court, having considered and noted the solicitor’s previous disciplinary findings, ordered:
1) That the name of the respondent solicitor be struck off the Roll of Solicitors;
2) That the ICS Bank and Ulster Bank shall furnish any information in its possession that the Society may
require relating to any aspect of the financial affairs of the practice of the solicitor, with liberty to the Society to apply to the court for further orders relating to specified banks if necessary;
3) That the respondent solicitor swear an affidavit disclosing all information as to his assets, either in his possession or control or within his procurement, that have been, but are no longer, in his possession, control or within his procurement, and if no longer in his possession or control or within his procurement, his belief as to the present whereabouts of those assets, such affidavit to be sworn within four weeks of the date of this order;
4) That the respondent solicitor do pay to the applicant the costs of this application and the costs of the proceedings before the Disciplinary Tribunal, such costs to be taxed in default of agreement.

The president had before him the report of the Solicitors Disciplinary Tribunal dated 27 September 2005. The tribunal had found that there had been misconduct on the part of the respondent solicitor in respect of the following complaints:
a) Up to the swearing of the Society’s affidavit, the respondent solicitor failed to register his clients as owners of their property, which was purchased in 1998, in a timely manner or at all;
b) Failed to respond to correspondence from his clients and to explain the failure to register the said property in a timely manner or at all;
c) In his letter of 5 November 2002 to his clients, inferred that their deed had been stamped when this was not in fact the position;
d) Misled the Registrar’s Committee on 17 December 2003 by telling them that duty had been paid on the deed when this was not in fact the position;
e) Failed to comply with an undertaking given to the Registrar’s Committee on 17 December 2003 to assist the clients’ new solicitor in rectifying the matter;
f) Failed to respond to correspondence from the Society, and in particular the Society’s letters dated 27 November 2003, 4 December 2003, 19 December 2003, 19 January 2004, 25 February 2004, 21 April 2004, 10 May 2004 and 30 July 2004;
g) Failed to comply with the direction made by the Registrar’s Committee at its meeting on 24 March 2004 that he make a contribution of €500 towards the complainant’s new solicitor’s costs.