Compo solicitors may test ads ban legality in court

SOLICITORS who specialise in personal injury claims are threatening to go to the High Court to test the legality of strict new regulations which ban advertising of their services.

Alan Synnott, principal of Lawline personal injury solicitors, yesterday indicated that colleagues in the profession were preparing to challenge the new rules, which some solicitors felt could infringe on their constitutional rights. Advertising by solicitors blamed for boosting the so-called compensation culture will be severely restricted from February 1. The rules were drawn up by the Law Society, the solicitors' own governing body, and signed by Justice Minister Michael

McDowell last week.