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WINNER<br />
It’s a little-known fact that<br />
in-house solicitors can take<br />
on trainees in their own right<br />
The Law Society’s new<br />
cybersecurity site for keeping<br />
your practice safe<br />
The background on the<br />
new employee vetting<br />
legislation explained<br />
€4.00 JAN/FEB 2017<br />
2 Jan/Feb 2017<br />
Law Society Gaz<strong>ette</strong> | <strong>ga</strong>z<strong>ette</strong>.ie<br />
CONTENTS<br />
THE LAW<br />
36 44<br />
40<br />
LAW SOCIETY GAZETTE • Vol 111 No 1 JAN/FEB 2017 Law Society of Ireland<br />
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LAW SOCIETY<br />
House of cards<br />
Cybersecurity systems<br />
Vet in a spin<br />
STRIKING OUT<br />
Lawyers front and centre in<br />
new Irish TV drama<br />
COVER: CONOR HORGAN,<br />
BLINDER FILMS<br />
COVER STORY<br />
30<br />
Striking out<br />
RTÉ’s latest drama puts the Irish<br />
le<strong>ga</strong>l system front and centre for<br />
the first time in Irish TV history.<br />
Grainne Rothery went on set for<br />
the Gaz<strong>ette</strong> to meet the stars of<br />
the show<br />
FEATURES<br />
36<br />
Brextradition<br />
Brexit is set to have a significant<br />
impact on extradition between Ireland<br />
and Britain. Ray Briscoe takes a look at<br />
how such business could be conducted<br />
post-Brexit<br />
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44<br />
48<br />
It shouldn’t happen to a<br />
vetting officer<br />
Background checks on employees are<br />
important, particularly where they may have<br />
access to children or vulnerable people.<br />
Matthew Holmes pulls your records<br />
Get in!<br />
Being a training solicitor is not the sole<br />
preserve of solicitors in private practice.<br />
In-house and public-sector solicitors can be<br />
training solicitors too, as Ian Ryan explains<br />
Restored to glory<br />
Between 2010 and 2015, a total of 4,268<br />
companies were restored to the the Register<br />
of Companies. Sally O’Neill walks us through<br />
the practice and procedure of restoration<br />
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Law Society Gaz<strong>ette</strong><br />
Volume 111, number 1<br />
Subscriptions: €65 (€95 overseas)<br />
Editor: Mark McDermott FIIC<br />
Deputy editor: Dr Garrett O’Boyle<br />
Art director: Nuala Redmond<br />
Editorial secretary: Catherine Kearney<br />
Printing: Turner’s Printing Company Ltd, Longford<br />
Editorial board: Michael Kealey (chairman),<br />
Mark McDermott (secretary), Patrick Ambrose,<br />
William Aylmer, Aoife Byrne, Mairéad Cashman,<br />
Hilary Forde, Richard Hammond, Teri Kelly, Tracy<br />
Cruikshank, Patrick J McGonagle, Aisling Meehan,<br />
Heather Murphy, Ken Murphy, Andrew Sheridan