Award-winning £60,000-a-year lawyer is jailed for three years after stealing ...
Award-winning £60,000-a-year lawyer is jailed for three years after stealing £30,000 from vulnerable 76-year-old client living in nursing home Lawyer Julie Harrigan, 36, stole around £30,000 from a client over two years Harrigan was an award-winning senior associate in Jersey earning £60,000 She was entrusted with affairs of her client - a 76-year-old care home resident Harrigan also shifted £18,000 of another late client's funds against their wishes She was sacked in 2018 and after a delay due to the pandemic, jailed three years
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A highly respected lawyer who transferred around £30,000 of an elderly client's funds into her own bank account has been jailed for three years.
Julie Harrigan, 36, was an award-winning senior associate at the offshore law firm Collas Crill in Jersey at the time of the offence, which came to light in January 2018.
The Royal Court in Jersey was told Harrigan made 46 bank transfers into her own account over a two year period from that of a 76-year-old nursing-home resident who lived in the UK.
Harrigan, who earned £60,000 a year, was exposed after tax workers at her firm noticed discrepancies within the estate of the woman - referred to as client A - who had been deemed unable to look after her own affairs.
