Solicitor struck off over €127k loan

A Cork solicitor who claimed to be a partner in a firm in an undertaking to a bank on a €127,000 loan to buy land, and then failed to comply with the undertaking, was yesterday struck off by the High Court.

Greg Casey, of Casey and Co Solicitors, North Main St, Bandon, Co Cork, had been restricted to operating as an assistant solicitor when he gave the undertaking to ACC Bank in 2001 “as a partner in the firm of Casey & Company” for a loan to buy 100 acres of land at Allihies, Beara, West Cork.

Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns said the Law Society’s view was this was a particularly serious case which required the ultimate sanction to reassure the public that the regulatory system was functioning.