Cork solicitor due to retire this week prohibited from practising

John Moylan will also have to pay €1,500 as restitution to the woman who had complained that the solicitor had failed to register an enduring power of attorney for her grandfather

It follows an inquiry into allegations that John Moylan had failed to take any adequate steps to register an enduring power of attorney for an elderly man in a nursing home or to reply adequately or at all to correspondence or phone calls from a member of the man’s family. File picture: Gareth Chaney/ Collins Photos

A Cork solicitor has been prohibited by the High Court from practising even though he has indicated to the Law Society he is going to retire this week and close his office.

The Legal Services Regulatory Authority (LSRA) sought an order from the court that John Moylan of Richard Moylan & Co Solicitors, Shortcastle St, Mallow, Co Cork, be censured and prohibited from practising as a legal practitioner other than as an employee.