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AND
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THE IRISH LAW TIMES,
DUBLIN, FEBRUARY 2, 1867.
We now issue the first number of this Journal, fully relying on the many assurances we have received of cordial support and co-operation; and our confidence in this respect is not the less when we bear in mind that this publication was first conceived solely with a view to the advancement of the interests of the profession in this country, and is now undertaken in the same spirit, and with the same paramount object, and not merely as a speculation that will be profitable to the promoters. For this reason, too, our first number, though not purely experimental, cannot be expected fully to satisfy the proposed object of this Journal, but must be regarded as chiefly intended to entitle us to receive that full measure of support, which is an essential condition of its more complete organization and success.
Although the prospectus already issued fully explains the objects proposed to be attained, the present appears to be a fitting occasion to place before our readers, in a more permanent form, the motives which have induced us to embark in this undertaking, and the principles on which we propose to conduct it.
The want of a publication exclusively devoted to the interests of our profession has never been so much felt as at the present time, when new powers and privileges of vast extent and importance have been, by a recent legislative enactment, conferred on the representatives of the general body of the attorneys and solicitors of this country.
The Irish Law Times and Solicitors' Journal has been undertaken to supply this want, with the view of aiding the Incorporated Law Society in the faithful and satisfactory discharge of its duties; and affording, at the same time, to every member of the profession the means of fully and freely discussing all subjects of importance to the general body.
Although mainly designed, in the first instance, for the legal public, this Journal will be found to embrace a far more extended sphere of utility. It will contain much that will prove interesting and important to the general public, but more especially to the mercantile community.
The plan we have proposed to ourselves is to supply early and accurate information, obtained from the most authentic official sources, as to the particulars and progress of the various matters pending in the several courts and offices, besides the earliest intimation of any circumstance in connexion with such proceedings which may be of general interest and importance. And this information is not intended to be limited to a mere list of names and cases, as an arrangement has been effected, under the sanction of the Council of Law Reporting in
