LAW SOCIETY GAZETTE LAW Let the wookie win Howzat! Inspection reflection The GDPR is nearly upon Cecelia Joyce combines a A practical guide for firms us – here’s what you need to high-flying legal career with facing a routine or triggered know about DPOs international cricket Law Society inspection • Vol 112 No 3 • Vol gaLAW SOCIETY ette€4.00 APRIL 2018 APRIL 2018 COURTHOUSE WINNER DOGS? Law Society of Ireland Paws for thought gaLAW SOCIETY ette IMPORTANT NOTICE FOR ONLINE READERS In order to enhance your enjoyment of the online, interactive version of the Gazette, readers are strongly advised to download the magazine first to their computer or device. Prior to downloading the Gazette, make sure that you are using the most up-to-date versions of your favourite browser, for example, Internet Explorer, Safari, Firefox or Chrome. IMPORTANT NOTE ON PAGE VIEW If you are reading the downloaded PDF in two-page view, ensure that you uncheck the ‘Show cover in two page view’ option. 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Ireland closed for a few days, but community spirit came to Spring gala beckons the fore. Messages from the The Law Society’s Spring Gala Dinner takes Government – from the Kildare Street bunker of place on Friday 27 April at the Shelbourne the National Emergency Coordination Centre Hotel, Dublin. This black-tie event will bring A– were relayed by Teresa Mannion and others, together members of the profession from across whose advice urged us to stay indoors and avoid Ireland, providing an opportunity to enjoy unnecessary journeys. Most obeyed the orders the company of colleagues, while supporting a and, though discommoded, the diktat worked. A very worthy cause. All profits raised will go to good time for Government. the Solicitors’ Benevolent Association (SBA). A greater mammoth, however, is coming in On behalf of the more vulnerable members of the form of the GDPR. How many of us are our profession and their dependent families, ready? Will it change our data practices greatly? I am asking you for your support. Journalist, The answer is, yes. Solicitors hold considerable broadcaster and former solicitor Miriam amounts of information of a personal and commercial nature on clients. From May, we will have to comply with more regulations regarding its storage. The Office of the Data Protection Commissioner has increased resources to THE SOLICITORS’ BENEVOLENT FUND implement data protection, which is about the PAYS OUT ALMOST €50,000 EVERY fundamental right to privacy. MONTH TO ASSIST THOSE IN NEED Privacy compromised However, we as individuals – and certain social media corporates – consistently diminish our rights to privacy on a daily basis. The smartphone O’Callaghan will be our MC on the night, is a major culprit. We pay bills by phone, we while impressionist and satirist Oliver Callan listen to music, we email, and some play games on will be our guest speaker. them – but on every occasion we use them, our Bookings for the gala dinner can be made privacy may be compromised. The big companies online at www.springgala.ie, or by contacting – Facebook, Google, LinkedIn, Twitter, Google, Orla O’Malley at [email protected] or and others – know more about us than we do tel: 086 807 5383. Even if you can’t attend, I ourselves. They know where we shop, what we would encourage you to make a donation to the buy, what we eat, what we drink, what we drive, SBA through the Law Society. how fit we are, where we are, what we’re looking The SBA fund needs considerable resources for, and who we know. every year to fulfil its obligations. It pays out What is dangerous about this undermining of almost €50,000 every month to assist those privacy is that we accept it passively – and mostly members and former members of the profession, without our knowledge. I urge you to read articles, their families, and immediate dependants who MICHAEL QUINLAN, including those in the Gazette, on the General Data are in need, across the island of Ireland. PRESIDENT 2 April 2018 CONTENTS Law Society Gazette | gazette.ie gaLAW SOCIETY ette COVER: CIAN REDMOND/REXFEATURES LAW SOCIETY GAZETTE LAW Let the wookie win Howzat! 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To contact the Office of the Press Ombudsman, visit: www.pressombudsman.ie or 46 www.presscouncil.ie. Law Society Gazette | gazette.ie CONTENTS April 2018 3 50 28 66 FEATURES 36 Top dogs 46 Talkin’ ’bout a revolution The US has pioneered the concept of ‘courthouse dogs’ In response to the Ukrainian ‘Revolution of Dignity’, the – trained facility dogs that are allowed to accompany EU Advisory Mission to Ukraine was established.