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Issue Nov 03 Contents GazetteLawSociety Regulars Cover Story Babes in the hood Juvenile crime is a growing issue in more ways than one, and the President’s message 3 12 Children Act, 2001 is the latest attempt to get to grips with the News 4 problem. Geoffrey Shannon looks at how the act deals with kids who fall foul of the law Viewpoint 8 Tech trends 36 Over the hills and far away Briefing 39 18 A UK House of Lords’ decision has implications for the issue of assessing Council report 39 solicitors’ costs in that jurisdiction. Practice notes 40 Tom Murran contrasts this with the Irish position Legislation update 43 Solicitors No longer Poles apart Disciplinary 20 As Poland prepares to take its place in Tribunal 45 the European Union, the society’s EU Personal injury and International Affairs Committee was judgment 46 invited to Warsaw to begin a programme of FirstLaw update 49 mutual assistance. Hugh O’Donoghue reports on this show of solidarity Eurlegal 53 People and The CAT’s pyjamas places 58 24 The administration of capital acquisitions Professional tax is currently undergoing the biggest information 61 shake-up since self-assessment was introduced in 1989. Declan Rigney outlines COVER PIC: EVERETT COLLECTION/ the benefits to practitioners REX FEATURES Keeping it in the family 28 Solicitors are often asked to advise on cases where beneficiaries want to redivide a will. Anne Stephenson discusses deeds of family arrangement and their possible tax consequences Alternative remedies 32 Arbitration between businesses has a long and successful history. Now, the European Commission has developed an arbitration service for business-to-consumer contracts. Susan Reilly explains Editor: Conal O’Boyle MA. Assistant editors: Kathy Burke, Garrett O’Boyle. Designer: Nuala Redmond. Editorial secretaries: Catherine Kearney, Valerie Farrell. Advertising: Seán Ó hOisín, 10 Arran Road, Dublin 9, tel: 837 5018, fax: 884 4626, mobile: 086 8117116, e-mail: [email protected]. Printing: Turners Printing Company Ltd, Longford. Editorial Board: Pat Igoe (Chairman), Conal O’Boyle (Secretary), Tom Courtney, Eamonn Hall, Mary Keane, Ken Murphy, Michael V O’Mahony, Alma Sheehan, Keith Walsh The Law Society of Ireland can accept no responsibility for the accuracy of contributed articles or statements appearing in this magazine, and any views or opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Law Society’s Council, save where otherwise indicated. No responsibility for loss or distress occasioned to any person acting or refraining from acting as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the authors, contributors, Editor or publishers. The Editor reserves the right to make publishing decisions on any advertisement or editorial article submitted to this magazine, and to refuse publication or to edit any editorial material as seems appropriate to him. Professional legal advice should always be sought in relation to any specific matter. Published at Blackhall Place, Dublin 7, tel: 01 672 4800, fax: 01 672 4877. Volume 97, number 9 E-mail: [email protected] Law Society website: www.lawsociety.ie Subscriptions: €57.15 1 Law Society Gazette November 2003 President’s message Rising to the challenge arting is such sweet sorrow! This has My dream of certainly been a bitter-sweet year for me, holding the society’s but one that I will never forget. It has annual conference in undoubtedly been the most exciting and Istanbul was shattered Penjoyable of my life, and one that by the uncertainty brought challenging developments for the surrounding the war in profession. Iraq. However, a last- One of the most frustrating aspects of my year in minute decision was office was the fact that the radical, practical and cost- made to change the free proposals for reforming the civil litigation venue to Lisbon, a system, contained in the society’s Real reform suitable, sunny and document, were dismissed or ignored by the tánaiste successful alternative. I and the media in the almost unseemly rush to would like to thank the loyal and supportive ‘I leave the introduce the Personal Injuries Assessment Board. In colleagues who attended. I know they enjoyed it. It their desire to satisfy the business lobby’s agenda, the would not have happened, of course, without the presidency interests of victims who have no organised voice to ingenuity and hard work of James McCourt and his in safe speak on their behalf has been ignored. This is very conference committee. wrong and even at this 11th hour, I hope that the hands. I tánaiste will open her mind to consider the positive Go raibh maith agaibh! shall miss proposals and submissions. There are many people without whose help I could not have done my job. My senior vice-president it’ Sterling work at grassroots level Gerry Griffin and junior vice-president John Fish I am delighted that the initiative to re-establish the were always on hand with helpful advice. The Public Relations Committee and to involve the bar support of the Council members – so crucial to associations in our effort to promote the image of every president – was overwhelming. I would the profession has been so successful. Almost all bar particularly like to thank the chairmen and members associations have now participated, and there have of our committees and task forces who undertook a been three meetings of the public relations officers, huge amount of work during the year and devoted who have now begun to do sterling work at local their valuable time to the Law Society’s work. level. I would like to thank Donald Binchy, chairman The boundless enthusiasm and energy of Ken of the PR Committee, and Ken Murphy for their Murphy and Mary Keane was an inspiration: their hard work and enthusiasm in overseeing this and guidance and advice were greatly appreciated. other important PR initiatives. This year would not have been possible without During the course of the year, Ken Murphy and I the loyalty and commitment of my partners Frank visited no fewer than 19 bar associations, and for me, Murphy and David Larney, Margaret Behan and all these visits were among the highlights of my our colleagues and staff at Gleeson McGrath presidency. The Law Society is lucky to have such a Baldwin. They carried a large workload in my strong body of support to call on. absence and made it possible for me to devote the I acknowledge that it has not been an easy year for necessary time to the job. the profession. Apart from the PIAB proposal, My husband Eric, and our daughters Kate and members had to cope with the introduction of Kamala, were unfailingly encouraging and mandatory CPD from 1 July and the designation of supportive, and ensured that I had a home to go to. I solicitors under the money-laundering regulations. leave the presidency and Council in safe hands, and I However, there were a great many highlights. know that we have a highly skilled, dedicated and Among them, I would include the holding of the hardworking profession which will rise to the first-ever council meeting in Sligo in May. It was a challenges that face us. particular pleasure for me as a Sligo woman to be It has been a great honour to be president of the able to do so, in the superb newly renovated Law Society and I am grateful for the trust that was courthouse. We were delighted to have so many placed in me. I shall miss it. representatives of Sligo and surrounding bar associations present as observers, and I know that Geraldine Clarke, they found it informative and interesting. President 3 Law Society Gazette November 2003 News CONVEYANCING HANDBOOK UPDATE The contact name and details Professions to get for Arthur Dunne and Des Holmes of the Architecture and Surveying Institute that ‘the full Monti’ appear at page 7.36 of the Conveyancing handbook dose of liberalisation’ is Among the earlier speakers should no longer be used. ‘Aon the way for was the chairman of Ireland’s Instead, practitioners should professions across the EU. Competition Authority, Dr contact Kevin Sheridan, 45 This was the phrase used by John Fingleton. He noted that Mount Anville Park, Dublin 14, one of the many speakers at a Ireland, along with the UK and tel: 01 607 0500, fax: 01 607 major day-long conference in Scandinavian countries, was 0651, mobile: 087 222 3985 Brussels on 28 October. The very much at the liberal end of or e-mail: sheridankc@ conference had been called by the scale – lightly rather than eircom.net. European Commissioner for heavily regulated – in terms of Competition Mario Monti. One the level of potentially anti- FLYING THE FLAC representative from each of the competitive regulation of the The Free Legal Advice Centres major professions in every EU Director general Ken Murphy professions as determined in a has a new head office at 13 member state was invited to recent survey by a Vienna-based Lower Dorset St, Dublin 1. The hear a detailed discussion of that consumer protection institute commissioned by the office was officially opened both the economic necessity objectives were achieved by the EU. ‘Although Ireland is “the last month by Mrs Justice and legal basis for the European means least restrictive of good boy in the class”, there are Catherine McGuinness, who Commission’s first-ever competition. still problems’, he said. also launched a book entitled systematic review of Access to justice: the history competition in the professions. of the Free Legal Advice The Law Society of Ireland was Centres, 1969-2004 by represented by director general Women in the law journalist Pádraig O’Moráin. Ken Murphy.
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