Self-styled cleaner to the stars Gina Farrell fled her solicitor’s office this week after grabbing the deeds of an apartment she owns and against which an undertaking had been given to pay a €100,000 debt, the High Court was told Thursday.
Mr Justice Donald Binchy was told that on Monday last Ms Farrell, with her husband Michael and an unidentified man, had gone to the offices of her solicitor Enda P. Moran in Celbridge, Co Kildare, on the pretext she needed to check the deeds and then ran off with them.
A locum solicitor who tried to stop them and recover the deeds had been “pushed aside”.
The court heard that her solicitor had previously given an undertaking to another firm of solicitors, to whom Farrell allegedly owed a legal costs debt of €158,471, that a settlement figure of €100,000 would be paid to them directly from the sale of her apartment in St Rapheal’s Manor, Celbridge.
Judge Binchy was told that solicitor Brien O’Brien had represented Ms Farrell, trading as Gina Farrell Cleaning Services, in a 17-day High Court case in which developer Seán Dunne was awarded €22,500 on the basis Ms Farrell had overcharged him, between 2003 and 2006, for cleaning services at an apartment complex his company Hollybrook (Brighton Road) Management owned in Foxrock, Co Dublin.

Sean Dunne’s Irish bankruptcy has been extended for 12 years by the High Court over “wilful and deliberate” failure to co-operate with the trustee administering his bankruptcy, including hiding or not disclosing information about certain assets .

Ms Justice Caroline Costello said Mr Dunne, who was in court today, was a “deeply dishonest” witness who clearly told lies about a number of matters, engaged in “wholesale non-compliance” of his statutory obligations and demonstrated an “incredible” attitude.

“I find it difficult to conceive of a bankrupt who could be more obstructive and less co-operative with the bankruptcy process.”

The judge also described as “at best disingenuous” claims maintained by Mr Dunne over a period that his principal address was a property at Stillman Lane, Connecticut, US, including over a time when that house was unfurnished or had minimal furniture and for sale.
Mr Dunne, she noted, had said he slept in townships in South Africa and enjoyed the “peace and quiet” of living in a house without furniture.
He had ultimately admitted his address was an address which had been provided by his wife to the Commercial Court in other proceedings.

In the official assignee’s case here, he alleges director’s loans and shares controlled by Sean Dunne in a company called Mavior were fraudulently transferred to Ms Killilea Dunne is an effort to defeat Mr Dunne’s creditors. It also relates to the transfer of the Lagoon Beach Hotel, Cape Town, South Africa and any other assets transferred to her by Mr Dunne under a February 2008 agreement.

That's definitely a 'wow' moment. Not like Irish Judge's to be tough with anyone

With this coupled with the Ben Gilroy judgment, is it too much to hope that finally judges are getting fed up seeing absolute chancers taking the piss?

Are we about to see a tsunami of tough judgments?!

With this coupled with the Ben Gilroy judgment, is it too much to hope that finally judges are getting fed up seeing absolute chancers taking the piss?

Are we about to see a tsunami of tough judgments?!

Now that he has been dealt with the next key decision one expects will concern his equally principled wife.

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/crime-a ... -1.3540139

He also said all of the assets claimed by the official assignee are Irish, with the exception of a hotel in South Africa, which is held through an Irish firm. None of the asset loan transactions, share transfers or assignment which are at the centre of this case, have any connection with the US and this has been recognised by the US courts, he said.