The Gazette 1996

il of the Irish Bar

which meets the needs

The Bar Review, published by the Bar Council, is available each month during court term with a total of nine issues published from October to July. The core of the Bar Review is the Legal Update section which contains a comprehensive guide to substantive and procedural legal developments, displayed in alphabetical order on a subject by subject basis The Update refers readers to all up-to-date judgments, legislative enactments and legal articles published, as they occur on a monthly basis. It also contains a guide to the status of bills in progress and European provisions implemented into Irish Law. The Legal Update is complemented in the Bar Review with articles of comment and analysis from members of the Bar on topical legal issues and developments. Regular features in the Bar Review include the Eurowatch section which concentrates on developments in European law and policy and the Online section dealing with aspects of technology and the law. In addition, book reviews concentrate on the latest publications of academic and practical interest. Some of the issues covered in the Bar Review since its launch in June of this year include: • A review of the law of insanity, • Judicial developments in the law relating to petitions to wind up a company,

• The latest Requisitions on Title issued by the Law Society, • The need for reform of arbitration law, • The impact of the Competition Act, 1996 on the regulation of economic activity in Ireland, • The changes introduced by the Family Law Act, 1995, • A i( view of the Proceeds of Crime Act, 1996. The Bar Review combines the best of academic and practical comment and analysis on the widest possible range of legal developments. The Legal Update is produced by the library staff in the Law Library with the assistance of researchers in the Judges Library in the Four Courts. The articles are written by practising barristers who are uniquely placed to observe the impact of, and the need for, legal developments across the full range of legal The Bar Review is a refereed journal and articles are submitted on an unnamed basis to the consultant editors who are: The Attorney General, Mr. Dermot Gleeson, S.C., Mr. Patrick MacEntee, S.C., Mr. Frank Clarke, S.C., Mr. Thomas McCann, S.C., Ms. Mary Finlay, S.C., Mr. Eoghan Fitzsimons, S . C ., Mr. Garrett Cooney, S.C., Mr. Donal O Donnell S.C., Mr. James O ' Reilly, S.C., Ms. Fidelma Macken S.C., Mr. Philip O ' Sullivan, S.C., Mr. Patrick Hanratty, S.C., Ms. Meliosa Dooge, B.L., Mr. Gerard Hogan, B.L.

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