Law Society-v-Gerard James McCarron
Edinburgh 16 December 2015. The Tribunal having considered the amended Complaint at the instance of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland against Gerard James McCarron, McCarron & Co, Bank House, 17 High Street, Airdrie, North Lanarkshire; Find the Respondent guilty of professional misconduct in respect of his accepting and his acting on the instructions of clients where he had insufficient competence and appropriate skills and acting for two clients in the drawing up of a separation agreement where there was a clear conflict of interest at the outset and he continued to act when parties were clearly no longer in an amicable situation and thereafter continued to act for one client where the other had instructed alternative solicitors and had complained to the SLCC; Censure the Respondent; Find the Respondent liable in the expenses of the Complainers and of the Tribunal including expenses of the Clerk, chargeable on a time and line basis as the same may be taxed by the Auditor of the Court of Session on an agent and client, client paying basis in terms of Chapter Three of the last published Law Society’s Table of Fees for general business with a unit rate of £14.00; and Direct that publicity will be given to this decision and that this publicity should include the name of the Respondent and may but has no need to include the names of anyone other than the Respondent.
C Bell
Vice Chairman