{"id":179913,"date":"2025-11-14T07:17:08","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:17:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/179913\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T07:17:08","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T07:17:08","slug":"prominent-solicitor-anthony-joyce-denies-allegations-of-hiding-funds-for-bankrupt-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/179913\/","title":{"rendered":"Prominent solicitor Anthony Joyce denies allegations of hiding funds for bankrupt clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">Lawyer claims money was given to him to discharge legal fees\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Insolvency lawyer Anthony Joyce leaves a Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal in Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/ea5494d3-a4f8-4d5e-96bc-6544aa51e1bf.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Insolvency lawyer Anthony Joyce leaves a Legal Practitioners Disciplinary Tribunal in Dublin. Photo: Mark Condren<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">A prominent lawyer accused of helping two clients to hide assets from creditors told investigators a \u20ac10,000 bank draft they gave him a month before they were declared bankrupt was to discharge legal fees and outlays due to him for representing them, a tribunal has heard.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Personal insolvency solicitor Anthony Joyce insisted this was the case despite a handwritten note from one of the clients, William Burke, stating that the money was to be held \u201cin trust\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lawyer claims money was given to him to discharge legal fees Insolvency lawyer Anthony Joyce leaves a Legal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":179914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[73],"tags":[79,18,19,17,8661],"class_list":{"0":"post-179913","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-shane-phelan"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115546832865375191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}