Law Society-v-Ian Maclachlan Allan
Interlocutor
Edinburgh 9 June 2005. The Tribunal having considered the Complaint dated 23 March 2005 at the instance of the Council of the Law Society of Scotland against Ian Maclachlan Allan, Solicitor, 3 East Port, Dunfermline; Find the Respondent guilty of Professional Misconduct in respect of his failure to provide his client and her executors with an accounting for his intromissions with her one-half share of an estate for the period from 1976 until 1995 and his failure to respond to the reasonable requests of the Law Society for information; Censure the Respondent; Find the Respondent liable in the expenses of the Complainers and in the expenses of the Tribunal as the same may be taxed by the auditor of the Court of Session on a solicitor and client indemnity basis in terms of Chapter Three of the Law Society’s Table of Fees for general business; and Direct that publicity will be given to this decision and that this publicity should include the name of the Respondent.
Alistair Cockburn
Vice Chairman