Solicitor suspended by High Court over missing millions from client account

The High Court has suspended a partner of a highly respected family law firm, and has frozen the practise's bank accounts, after being informed that €2.4m is missing from the firm's client's funds.

The court heard that Ruairi O'Ceallaigh, a partner in the firm Sean O'Ceallaigh & Co and who has admitted the wrongdoing, gambled the money, half of which was left to the Catholic Church, on stocks and shares.