Solicitor and property developer Michael Lynn has failed again to come to court to be questioned by the Law Society.
This morning, the High Court ordered that he be arrested and brought before the court at 2.00 this afternoon.
When the proceedings resumed, Mr Justice Richard Johnson was told that a copy of the court order had been delivered to Mr Lynn's home at St Alban's Park in Sandymount.
The court was also told that Gardaí at the Bridewell and Garda Headquarters had been sent copies of the order and that Mr Lynn's wife, Brid Murphy, had had the matter brought to her attention.
The Law Society also spoke to a firm of solicitors in London, Merriman White, which had been contacted by Mr Lynn, but the firm said it was not in a position to confirm whether or not it would be acting for him.
Lawyers for Mr Lynn's wife, Brid Murphy, said she last saw her husband on Monday evening in the offices of the London solicitors. She then returned to this country. She also spoke to him in London yesterday evening.
Her lawyer, Gary McCarthy, said she had made a number of phone calls to him today but he had not returned any of the calls although she was expecting him to return those calls 'soon'.
Mr Justice Johnson adjourned the proceedings until Thursday morning at 11am. He said that if Mr Lynn turned up in the meantime, he should be detained in custody until then.
Senior Counsel Shane Murphy, for the Law Society, said that if Mr Lynn was brought before the court tomorrow, the society would begin the cross examination that was due to begin today.
The society is taking disciplinary proceedings against him and wants to cross-examine him about six of his multiple property dealings. It is almost two months since Mr Lynn's practice was shut down by the Law Society.
Since then it has emerged that he owes almost €80m to at least ten financial institutions, and that he has multiple mortgages on many of the 148 properties he is involved with.
The High Court has also been told that undertakings he gave to banks to provide security for the loans have not been honoured in many cases. Files relating to his affairs have been referred to the Garda Bureau of Fraud Investigation.
