The Gazette 1986

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

GAZETTE

Vol. No. 80 No. 9

November 1986

In this issue . . .

Comment 251

Periodic Tenancies in Writing and the Running

of Time

253

Practice Notes 258 Court Etiquette 261

International Bar Association

263

The Fable of Sam, The Solicitous Solicitor 265 Domicile and Foreign Divorces Act, 1986 269 Society of Young Solicitors 272

Professional Information

274

Comment

Executive Editor:

Editorial Board:

Advertising:

Printing:

Mary Buckley

Charles Meredith, Chairman

John F. Buckley

Gary Byrne

Geraldine Clarke

Daire Murphy

Michael V. O'Mahony

Maxwell Sweeney

Liam O hOisin, Telephone 305236

Turner's Printing Co. Ltd., Longford

The views expressed in this publication, save where other-

wise indicated, are the views of the contributors and not

necessarily the views of the Council of the Society.

The appearance of an advertisement in this publication

does not necessarily indicate approval by the Society for

the product or service advertised.

Published at Blackhall Place, Dublin 7.

Selling Ourselves

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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