Legal Profession

Question 1

When was division carried over?

Answer 1

When state was established in 1922

Question 2

What reforms did legal regulations act 2015 propose?

Answer 2

Legal partnerships
Significant effect: full access to legal services

Question 3

Patch to becoming a solicitor?

Answer 3

Period of traineeship
Blackball
Must hold degree / preliminary exam
Fe1s company, equity, Eu, property

Question 4

Exemptions to FE1s?

Answer 4

Exemption in Reg 15 of 1991 regulations removed after bloomer v incorporated law society
Sought parity with counterparts

Question 5

What are the principal law society courses?

Answer 5

PPC, vocational rather than academic

Question 6

Sokicitor Discipline?

Answer 6

Part 6 of legal services regulations act
2015 since 2019
Certain complaints dealt with by LSRA

Question 7

Solicitor Serious complaints?

Answer 7

Separate legal practitioners disciplinary tribunal
Solicitors act 1954 held unconstitutional
Statutory compensation fund established solicitors amendment act 1960

Question 8

Solicitors as judges?

Answer 8

Prior to 1995 only district court
Eligible for HC / SC since 2002
Peart J first appointed

Question 9

What is kings inn?

Answer 9

Established in Dublin
Body that provided post graduate legal training
Not regulated by legislation but alter by LRCA 2015
Voluntary society

Question 10

Who runs the kings inn?

Answer 10

Body known as benchers
Include members of judiciary & senior members of bar
Excercise ultimate control over courses

Question 11

Admission to kings inn?

Answer 11

Entrance examination
Land law, equity, admin, company, jurisprudence, Eu
In 2008 2 year course became 1

Question 12

Dining tradition?

Answer 12

Reflects time when no precise course was prescribed
By dining would become familiar informally

Question 13

Where are students called to bar?

Answer 13

SC in presence of CJ
LRSA has responsibility for maintaining Role

Question 14

Law library?

Answer 14

Where most barristers practice from
Mirrors traineeship of solicitors
Devil assists with drafting / pleading
Attends court / consultations with master

Question 15

Barrister discipline?

Answer 15

Prior to 2019 controlled by Bar Council of Ireland
Still remains responsible for setting standards of behaviour
Complaints dealt under pt 6 of LSRA 2015

Question 16

Breaches of Bar Code of practice?

Answer 16

Irish courts have referred cases
Dpp v mcdonagh SC seemed referral necessary
Oconnor v Power HC for persistent flouting ordinary rules of courtesy & behaviour

Question 17

Junior counsel?

Answer 17

Outer Bar
Consider taking silk after 15 years
Function include drafting & preparation of pleadings, conducting cases in lower courts

Question 18

Senior Counsel?

Answer 18

Functions include scrutiny of draft proceedings & conduct of more difficult cases in higher courts

Question 19

Advocacy?

Answer 19

Not really speaking in court
Time spent on paperwork
Advocacy plays relatively minor part

Question 20

Dress code?

Answer 20

S213 LSRA 2015 amended S49 of courts & court officers act 1995