Is this Restriction of Trade?

[kevin wooldridge]

Unlawful in my opinion. The credentials provided by the IFA are not formally recognised....

That clearly cannot be the case otherwise it is unlikely that HMRC allow IfA membership subscriptions to be offset aganst tax. The All Party Parliamentary Archaeology group (APPAG) also recognises in its 2004 report on UK archaeology that the IfA (alomg with IHBC) as a professional group representing archaeologists....Many local authority planning departments also formally recognise the IfA as the setter and arbiter of archaeological standards.....Both the National Trust and English Heritage formally recognise the IfA as a professional body representing archaeologists. That seems to me , all in all, to be pretty formal.......