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TWO SOLICITORS who admitted 50 charges of gross misconduct and operating secret accounts to evade tax have won a Supreme Court order requiring the Law Society to pay their legal costs of the society’s unsuccessful appeal against an order refusing to strike off both men. The costs could amount to €100,000.

While the three-judge Supreme Court ruled yesterday that solicitors Colm Carroll and Henry Colley were entitled to have their costs of the appeal against the society, Mr Justice Joseph Finnegan remarked that the costs application was not indicative of “remorse” by the pair.