Solicitor’s assets frozen as €900k in funds go missing

THE High Court has frozen the assets of and suspended a solicitor whom it is alleged has €900,000 missing from his firms’ client accounts.

Mr Justice Peter Charle- ton yesterday made various orders against solicitor Declan J McEvoy after being informed the Law Society’s Fitness to Practise Committee had formed the view the solicitor had acted dishonestly.

The Law Society sought freezing orders against Mr McEvoy after the society’s investigating accountants discovered a deficit of €900,000 in the client accounts of the two firms of which he is principal — William Early Solicitors Haymarket, Carlow and JM McEvoy & Co, the Avenue, Gorey, Co Wexford.