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Question for solicitors

  • 17-01-2014 9:49pm
    #1
    Dtp1979
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    A friend of mine has a problem. A husband and wife going through seperation. Can a solicitor have the wife as a client for a few weeks, go through her details, then drop the wife as the client due to a large workload and then go on to represent the husband.??


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  • #2
    NoQuarter
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    Represent the husband in another matter or in the same separation?

    If it's the same separation then I would say there is a conflict of interests there. It would be unethical.


  • #3
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    NoQuarter wrote: »
    Represent the husband in another matter or in the same separation?

    If it's the same separation then I would say there is a conflict of interests there. It would be unethical.

    Yes in the same seperation. Would this be legal for the solicitor to do?


  • #4
    johnnyskeleton
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    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Yes in the same seperation. Would this be legal for the solicitor to do?

    It could be law society complaints time. There was a Celtic tiger story about a few very expensive family law solicitors where a husband would meet them for an hour, pay an exhorbitant fee, but then the wife couldn't use them!


  • #5
    nuac
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    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    It could be law society complaints time. There was a Celtic tiger story about a few very expensive family law solicitors where a husband would meet them for an hour, pay an exhorbitant fee, but then the wife couldn't use them!


    Heard that one.

    I believe it is a name we hear a lot these days


  • #6
    Dtp1979
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,870 ✭✭✭✭Dtp1979


    johnnyskeleton wrote: »
    It could be law society complaints time. There was a Celtic tiger story about a few very expensive family law solicitors where a husband would meet them for an hour, pay an exhorbitant fee, but then the wife couldn't use them!

    Thanks. So basically it is illegal then?


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  • #7
    johnnyskeleton
    Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Politics Moderators Posts: 14,550 Mod ✭✭✭✭johnnyskeleton


    Dtp1979 wrote: »
    Thanks. So basically it is illegal then?

    Not illegal exactly, but professionally unsound and possibly unethical too. It's something the law society would properly investigate.


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