Annual Report 2025

Read the Law Society's Annual Report and financial statements for 2025.

Annual Report 2025

About the Law Society

Council of the Law Society

The Law Society of Ireland is governed by a Council of elected and nominated members of the solicitors’ profession. 

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Strategic objectives

The Law Society's work for the profession and public interest is directed by its Statement of Strategy for 2024 to 2028. 

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Organisational structure

The director general, Mark Garrett, who leads a group of five departmental heads as part of an  executive leadership team.

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Quick actions and featured resources

ESG

The Law Society made significant strides in its Environmental, social, and governance (ESG) journey.

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Committee reports

The Council may delegate the exercise of any of its functions to a committee established for that purpose. This allows the Council to appoint standing committees that exercise statutory functions on its behalf.

  • Co-ordination Committee

    The Co-ordination Committee operates as a link between the Society’s committees and the Council, with an oversight role for projects undertaken by each of the Society’s committees and task forces. 

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  • Education Committee

    The role of the Education Committee is to prescribe and review the overall policy of the Society's Law School, to determine the content of course syllabi, monitor the traineeship programme and decide applications in relation to traineeships and other matters.

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  • Finance Committee

    The Finance Committee's key function is the management of the financial affairs of the Law Society and its subsidiaries.

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  • Money Laundering Reporting Committee

    The Money Laundering Reporting Committee’s statutory remit is to report any suspicions that money laundering or an offence of financing terrorism has been committed by a practising solicitor or any other person.

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  • Regulation of Practice Committee

    The Regulation of Practice Committee administers the Law Society’s Compensation Fund and oversees the profession’s compliance with regulatory requirements not assigned to other regulatory committees.

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