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This is a part of my being revealed as a matter of urgency. role as president that I really enjoy. ISince my last message, members of the Council New courts of the Law Society have received the report The Courts Service and the Office of of Professor Paul Maharg and Professor Jane Public Works have now completed their Ching. This is an independent review of solicitor redevelopment of Wexford and Letterkenny education in Ireland by internationally renowned courthouses as part of a €140-million experts. They commenced it last year, at the public/private partnership that is delivering request of the Society. In addition, the Council seven courthouses across the country. This has now appointed a review group, chaired by investment in our court buildings has to Mr Justice Michael Peart, which will examine the be recognised as a positive step, and we study in depth and report with recommendations congratulate the Courts Service on these to the Council. All this must be completed in necessary improvements. Like all State bodies, advance of the June Council meeting. the Courts Service suffered from severe cuts One of the obligations of the Legal Services to its finances during the recession. Slowly, Regulatory Authority (LSRA), under section 34 (1) of the Legal Services Regulation Act, is to submit to Government a review of solicitors’ education within two years of the commencement of the act. The LSRA is THE GOVERNMENT HAS NOT YET bedevilled with delays in recruiting staff – no doubt equally frustrating for the authority as PUBLISHED THE FULL DETAILS OF it is for the Law Society – but I completely THE SCHEME. WE LOOK FORWARD accept the authority’s view that it must be set up correctly, properly staffed and resourced, before TO THESE BEING REVEALED AS A its key powers and obligations are commenced. MATTER OF URGENCY Good news on Setanta While the Setanta decision in the Supreme Court in May 2017 was, unfortunately, not in favour of the Law Society’s challenge, the Government has however, and in ingenious ways, it is improving now stepped into the breach. This intervention our court buildings for the public and the is very welcome in the public interest. It was for practitioners of today and tomorrow. (See page the public interest that the Society, invited to do 13 of this Gazette for an update on the family so by the President of the High Court, challenged courts complex in Dublin.) as a matter of law the stance taken by the Motor The first parchment ceremonies of 2018 Insurance Bureau of Ireland. have already been held. I’m delighted to say Great credit for this welcome Government that the number of new entrants is increasing. intervention must be given to immediate past- I wish every one of our new solicitor colleagues MICHAEL QUINLAN, president Stuart Gilhooly for his relentless many long and happy years in the profession. 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