Celebrity Solicitor Gerald Kean to 'vigorously appeal' court ruling

A High Court judge has ruled solicitor Gerald Kean was not entitled to give Permanent TSB the title deeds to two properties of a woman in Co Waterford over which the EBS has a first legal charge.

Mr Kean should not have given the deeds to PTSB in the "teeth" of advice from a solicitor in his office, Mr Justice Michael Twomey found. Mr Kean also should not have made a "false" statement in a 2014 letter to PTSB that his law firm had issued proceedings against EBS.