Lynn fails in bid to have cross-examination delayed

SOLICITOR Michael Lynn yesterday failed to get a postponement to his attendance in the High Court tomorrow to face questioning over his property dealings after he changed lawyers representing him.

The Law Society, which is investigating Mr Lynn, also claims he has failed to provide access to a computer server for a foreign property firm he was involved in, Kendar Holdings.

Mr Lynn, whose firm has been closed down by the Law Society, is due to attend the High Court to face two days of cross-examination in relation to property dealings.

In the High Court yesterday, Paul Burns SC, for Mr Lynn, asked that the cross-examination be postponed to allow him (Lynn) familiarise him with documents about which he will be questioned.

The questions will focus on six property dealings, including two concerning Glenlion House in Howth, Dublin, which Mr Lynn intended to use as his new family home. The questioning will also relate to matters contained in an affidavit Mr Lynn has provided in relation to the cases taken against him by the Law Society.

Mr Burns yesterday told High Court President Mr Justice Richard Johnson, that Mr Lynn’s legal representatives had only last Thursday received two large boxes of documents which he needed time to consider before his appearance in court this week.

Mr Burns said that as and from today, the law firm representing Mr Lynn would be coming “off record”.

Shane Murphy SC, for the Law Society, opposed the adjournment application saying the core documents on which Mr Lynn would be questioned had been served on his lawyers last Friday.

These documents related to properties on which there is “daily litigation” and it was inconceivable that Mr Lynn would not be familiar with them, Mr Murphy said.

It was revealed in correspondence between Mr Lynn and the Law Society, that a computer server in a locked room relating to Kendar may have been removed, Mr Murphy said.

Locks to this room had been changed and Mr Lynn also has separate access to this room from a car park.

The question of the Kendar computer server also “raises questions”, the judge said, but the examination “goes on on Wednesday”.