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Notice to Clients & Creditors of Authorisation of Aoife McCarthy, Gráinne O’Donovan and Teresa O’Sullivan, practising as Douglas Law Solicitors, to operate as an LLP

Douglas Law Solicitors are delighted to announce that we are now a Limited Liability Partnership (LLP)!

Under the Legal Services Regulation 2015 (Limited Liability Partnerships) (Section 130) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 519 of 2019), we are obliged to provide the following information to our clients and creditors:-

(a) Aoife McCarthy, Gráinne O’Donovan and Teresa O’Sullivan, practising as Douglas Law Solicitors, have been authorised to operate and are now operating as an LLP (hereinafter called ‘the LLP’);

(b) The LLP has been authorised with effect from 2nd March 2020;

(c) From 2nd March 2020, as set out in section 123 of the Act (subject to the exceptions listed therein), a partner in the LLP has no personal liability for any debts, liabilities or obligations which are incurred for the purpose of carrying on the business of the LLP (whether these are liabilities of the LLP or herself or another partner or partners in the LLP or of any employee, agent or representative of the LLP) and however such liability may arise;

(d) The (c.) above relates only to the personal liability of partners and does not prevent or restrict the enforcement against the property of the LLP of any debt, liability or obligation; and

(e) That from 2nd March 2020, the Partnership Act 1890 applies to the LLP to the extent that it is not inconsistent with Chapter 2 of Part 8 of the Legal Services Regulation Act 2015.

Aoife McCarthy, Gráinne O’Donovan and Teresa O’Sullivan practising as Douglas Law Solicitors LLP
Dated 2nd March 2020