Solicitor avoids jail in will case

A solicitor avoided jail at the 11th hour when he came up with a bank draft for €23,000 he should not have held back for work on administering two estates on behalf of a will executor.

John Condon, practising under the title of McMahon & Tweedy Solicitors, Merchants Quay, Dublin, was found by the President of the High Court, Mr Justice Nicholas Kearns to be in contempt over his failure to pay the money.