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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.
For its part, the Society was
pursuing the interests of the
profession. He would be making it
quite clear to the profession that the
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.
Motions Passed
The following motions were passed
at the conclusion of the meeting:
This Association urgently calls on
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.
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