The Gazette 1993

GAZETTE

I M N A GEM N JUNE 1993

Society was seeking the deletion of Section 29 (2) of the Solicitors (Amendment) Bill. A wide range of issues were being worked on such as a campaign about inadequate facilities in the courts, work on the introduction of a comprehensive scheme of civil legal aid, the appointment of solicitors as judges in the Superior Courts and resistance to the new probate tax announced in the budget, just to cite some examples.

that the Society was active now in a way that it had never been in the past on the PR front. Statements were regularly issued to the media and relations with the press had improved considerably. Public Relations was extremely important, he said, but much of the improvement required was in the hands of practitioners themselves. The Society received quite a large number of complaints every year and most of them related to matters such as delay and poor communication; matters which could easily be remedied.

the Law Society and its Council to examine sympathetically the problems of practitioners irrespective of size, in the light of present economic climate. This Association calls on the Law Society and its Council to take immediate steps to limit the numbers entering the profession by means of an independent competitive Annual Entrance Examination. This Association calls on the Law Society and its Council to immediately undertake and obtain continuous positive media coverage and further to publicly endorse the role of the sole or small practitioner.

Motions Passed

The following motions were passed at the conclusion of the meeting:

For its part, the Society was pursuing the interests of the

profession. He would be making it quite clear to the profession that the

This Association urgently calls on

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