High Court told solicitor Ian McSweeney had not been co-operating with efforts to examine his practice
The court heard that the solicitor, by way of email, had said the office he worked from in Balbriggan was now closed and that he had “reached the end of the road” in terms of running his legal practice. Photograph: Bryan O'Brien
The President, Mr Justice David Barniville, was told an accountant with the Law Society had been seeking access to the records of the practice of solicitor Ian McSweeney, of MsSweeney Solicitors, formerly of Dublin Street, Balbriggan, but had not received the promised cooperation. She told Mr Justice Barniville she had received an email from Mr McSweeney “twenty minutes ago” saying he would not be attending the afternoon hearing.Man arrested in Kildare in connection with 1995 murder of Jo Jo Dullard
In email communications he said he wanted to wind down his practice in an orderly way, that he had health issues, and that he had not made a success of running his practice.
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