The Supreme Court on Friday handed down judgment in the case brought by attorney Vaughn Bignall, challenging the constitutionality of regulations governing how lawyers and law firms may advertise.
The court upheld some of the regulations and struck down others.
The 1972 Legal Profession Act and the 1978 canons of Professional Ethics completely banned lawyers from advertising their services.
The canons were amended in 2016, and some advertising is now possible, within limits.
Mr. Bignall's firm has been advertising on social media and in the newspapers.
The General Legal Council expressed concern about the scale and intensity of the advertising and also cited the firm's billboard in Half Way Tree.
Mr. Bignall took the profession's regulatory body, the General Legal Council (GLC) to court, claiming that the current rules on advertising were unconstitutional.
The court said the claim the GLC did not have the power to make advertising regulations was without merit.
It noted that the advertising regulations promote standards and try to prevent harmful advertising,
The court, however, ruled that some of the regulations were constitutional and others were not.
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