Ireland Competition Authority & Legal Profession

Comments on the Competition Authority of Ireland's preliminary report on the legal profession are due April 28 2005.  The study found that "the legal profession is permeated with serious and disproportionate restrictions on competition." The report makes dozens of recommendations intended "to make it easier to become a lawyer, easier to hire a lawyer and easier for lawyers to organise themselves." The Competition Authority is a statutory body charged with enforcing Irish competition law.   Legal profession preliminary report (and earlier reports on various professions)

The Competition Authority
Competition Act of 2002

The Law Society of Ireland's August 2004 Supplementary submission to the Competition Authority in respect of its Study into Competition in the Professions of Architect, Barrister, Dentist, Engineer, Medical Practitioner, Optometrist, Solicitor & Veterinary Surgeon, pursuant to Section 11 of the Competition Act, 1991 (as amended)