{"id":526537,"date":"2026-06-30T22:00:13","date_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526537\/"},"modified":"2026-06-30T22:00:13","modified_gmt":"2026-06-30T22:00:13","slug":"rise-in-the-number-of-complaints-made-to-legal-watchdog-against-solicitors-in-kerry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/526537\/","title":{"rendered":"Rise in the number of complaints made to legal watchdog against solicitors in Kerry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a 13% rise in the number of complaints made against solicitors in Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s according to figures released in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lsra.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Legal Services Regulatory Authority<\/a> (LSRA) annual report for 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The legal watchdog deals with complaints related to the work of solicitors and barristers.<\/p>\n<p>60 complaints were made to the Legal Services Regulatory Authority from Kerry in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>That accounts for 3.36% of all complaints made to the legal watchdog last year.<\/p>\n<p>Nationally, 2,315 query files were opened by complaints staff, 1,788 were subsequently classified as complaints.<\/p>\n<p>Just under 1,700 (1,699) were in relation to solicitors, while 89 concerned barristers.<\/p>\n<p>Kerry ranked seventh in the most complaints lodged in the state, behind Dublin (733), Cork (199), Kildare (86), Galway (75), Limerick (71), and Donegal (63).<\/p>\n<p>The number of complaints to the<a href=\"https:\/\/www.radiokerry.ie\/news\/lsra\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> LSRA<\/a> from Kerry rose by 13% in a year, rising from 53 in 2024, to 60 last year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There has been a 13% rise in the number of complaints made against solicitors in Kerry. That\u2019s according&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":526538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,61,60],"class_list":["post-526537","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=526537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/526537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/526538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=526537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=526537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=526537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}