City solicitor guilty of misconduct

Glasgow solicitor Eileen  Coogans was given a three-year supervision order after she was found guilty of professional  misconduct.

The hearing in Edinburgh was told that Ms Coogans, 62, did not carry out proper checks after a property was resold within days, netting a massive profit for the seller.

In 2007, the same lawyer was fined £4,000 after she admitted failing to record where money was coming from.

At a hearing of the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal, Ms Coogans faced two charges of professional misconduct.

Sean Lynch, representing the Law Society of Scotland, which prosecuted the case, told the hearing: “This is a situation where the purchaser of a property from a builder sold the property on within a matter of days for a profit of just short of £70,000.”

Ms Coogans was not present or represented at the hearing. She admitted the facts of the case but not that they amounted to professional misconduct.

However, the panel found her guilty of professional misconduct on both counts.