Judge orders solicitor to return passports to mother and daughter

A solicitor's retention of the passports of a Nigerian woman and her teenage daughter, currently in emergency accommodation, in a dispute over €1,500 fees, has been overturned as "wholly unreasonable" by the High Court.

The court president, Mr Justice Peter Kelly, ordered the Nigerian passports, allegedly retained by the solicitor since late 2017, be returned "forthwith".