Solicitor Michael Lynn has failed to secure an adjournment of his attendance in the High Court tomorrow to face questioning over property dealings.
Mr Lynn sought the adjournment yesterday on the grounds that he has engaged a British firm of lawyers to replace his existing lawyers and needs more time to prepare for his cross-examination by the Law Society.
This will be Mr Lynn's third legal team since October. He was initially represented by Giles Kennedy, solicitor, and until now by Seán Sexton of PJ Walsh & Company. He has now engaged a British firm, Merriman White.
The Law Society, which is investigating Mr Lynn and has closed his practice, Michael Lynn & Company, also told the court yesterday that he had failed to provide access to a computer server for a foreign property firm of which he is a director, Kendar Holdings Ltd.
Mr Lynn is due to attend before the president of the High Court, Mr Justice Richard Johnson, to face two days of cross-examination in relation to six of his multiple property dealings.
Yesterday, Paul Burns SC, for Mr Lynn, asked that the cross-examination be postponed to allow Mr Lynn familiarise himself with documents about which he will be questioned.
The questions will focus on six property dealings, including two dealings concerning Glenlion House in Howth, Dublin, which Mr Lynn intended to use as his new family home and in relation to which he took out at least three, and perhaps four, mortgages. The questioning will also relate to matters contained in an affidavit from Mr Lynn about his dealings.
Mr Burns told Mr Justice Johnson that Mr Lynn's legal representatives had only last Thursday received two large boxes of documents and Mr Lynn needed time to consider these before his appearance in court this week.
Shane Murphy SC, for the Law Society, opposed the adjournment application, saying that the core documents on the basis of which Mr Lynn would be questioned had been served on his lawyers last Friday. These documents related to properties in relation to which there was "daily litigation" and it was inconceivable that Mr Lynn would not be familiar with them, Mr Murphy said.
Mr Lynn will also be questioned about an affidavit from him and about his dealings in Kendar Holdings.
It had been revealed in correspondence between Mr Lynn and the Law Society that a computer server in a locked room relating to Kendar may have been removed, Mr Murphy said. Locks to this room had been changed and Mr Lynn also has separate access to this room from a car park, according to the correspondence.
Mr Lynn will be cross-examined by Mr Murphy, for the Law Society, before the High Court president. Mr Lynn's evidence will not be admissible in any criminal proceedings as he is required by court order to attend.
