Solicitor loses legal action over supervision

A solicitor with a “very bad record” of professional misconduct has failed in the High Court to overturn a decision that he can only practice under the supervision of another solicitor.

John Condon, who has been a solicitor for 35 years and is principal of McMahon and Tweedy, Merchant’s Quay, Dublin, challenged a Law Society committee’s requirement that his practising certificate for 2016 would only be issued on the basis of him being supervised by a lawyer of 10 years standing.

He claimed he did not require supervision at all and that he had been given no opportunity to make submissions to the society’s complaints and clients relation committee before it imposed the condition.