The Gazette 1986

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND GAZETTE Vol. No. 80 No. 9

November 1986

In this issue . . . Comment Periodic Tenancies in Writing and the Running of Time

Comment

Selling Ourselves F or once, an Annual General Meeting of the Society drew a packed house. The topics of compulsory professional indemnity insurance and whether or not the profession should be permitted to advertise its wares clearly excite keen interest and it is good to know that something over six hundred members of the profession were prepared to come and be counted on November the 13th last. The main argument centred on the question of advertising and, in the vote on the resolution, those who came to be counted came down two to one against the reversal of the centuries-old prohibition of all attempts to advertise. Despite the fact that the exhaustive inquiry of the Restrictive Practices Commission into both conveyancing and advertising disclosed no evidence of any public pressure or even interest in altering the position, the Commission took it upon itself to recommend that solicitors should be permitted to advertise. It is not at all beyond the bounds of possibility that the present Government may wish, by whatever legislative means may be devised, to remove the age-old restriction. It remains to be seen whether a Government so precariously balanced feels sufficiently strongly about the issue to fly in the face of such an apparently over- whelmingly conservative vote in favour of maintaining the status quo. Are our local T.D.s in for some heavy pressurising in the coming weeks and months? In a forthcoming issue of the Gazette we hope to publish critical essays on both sides of the question.•

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Practice Notes

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Court Etiquette

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International Bar Association

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The Fable of Sam, The Solicitous Solicitor

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Domicile and Foreign Divorces Act, 1986

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Society of Young Solicitors

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Professional Information

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