There is a procedure for enforcement of an undertaking is by way of summary procedure.\u00a0 The court has jurisdiction to award compensation. \u00a0In a number of cases involving failures of financial undertakings, the courts awarded compensation by way of full reimbursement of the payments undertaken to be made,. where the breach was particularly serious.<\/p>\n
The court’s summary disciplinary jurisdiction is not just compensatory but is based on the need to keep the system uphold the integrity of the systems of solicitors. Undertakings The court will not make an order in vain. However, cases have also held that compensation will be granted only where the behaviour is inexcusable or egregious.<\/p>\n
The civil right to sue for enforcement will still remain.\u00a0 The amount awarded should not exceed the amount necessary to compensate the client for breach of undertaking.<\/p>\n
Breach of an undertaking may be treated as contempt of court.\u00a0 The solicitor may be committed for deliberate non-performance.<\/p>\n\n
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Nature of Undertaking A solicitor’s undertaking is a promise by a solicitor or somebody on his behalf to or refrain from doing something.\u00a0 It gives rise to personal liability for the solicitor.\u00a0 It is enforceable as a disciplinary matter.\u00a0 It subsists until released expressly or impliedly by its beneficiary. Undertakings are frequently given in property […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[308],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2135"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2192,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2135\/revisions\/2192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}