The Gazette 1940-44

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland

May, 1943]

PROFESSORSHIP OF COMMON LAW. The Council invite applications from Solicitors for the Office of Professor of Common Law to the Society. Particulars of duties can be obtained from the Secretary. The newly-elected Professor will enter on his duties next October. The appointment will be made for one year and the person appointed will be eligible for yearly re-appoint ment for each of the four succeeding years. Applications will be received up to June 9th, 1943, and should be addressed to the Secretary, Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin. EXAMINATIONS RESULTS. The President, addressing Solicitors' ap prentices and intending apprentices in announcing the results of the Preliminary and Final Examinations, held in .April, 1943, said :— Before reading the results of the recent Preliminary and Final Examinations, I must inform the students present, and in fact, announce that the Court of Examiners have approved of a regulation prohibiting any dis closure of results before the Council of the Law Society has considered and adopted the report of the Court of Examiners. This regulation, enforceable from now onwards, ends a custom which was increasing, whereby students, by various means, obtained advance information. It is the desire of the Council that the announcement of results should be regarded tas a ceremony of importance to our students, who have not the advantage of any formal admission and that on the occasion of such announcement, the President of our Society will deliver a short address to the students. To those who have passed their Preliminary Examination, I would wish them every success in their work and study. I wish to impress on them the necessity for regular attendance in the office where they intend to serve their apprenticeship, and in the case of students who will serve their apprenticeship in country offices to impress upon them the necessity of regular attendance in the Town Agent's office in the city during the period that they will be in Dublin for the lectures. By this means they will obtain, provided they take

an interest in the work in the office in which they are apprenticed, a very excellent know ledge of practice, a knowledge which will enable them to be much more proficient when they qualify, as many newly-qualified solici tors are not at the moment. I also desire to impress upon them the necessity of regular and punctual attendance at the lectures given by this Society and the exercise by them of restraint and discipline at these lectures. Many of these students, I know, will also attend lectures at the Universities, and if they intend to profit by these lectures, together with the lectures they will receive here, they must be regular in their attendance and at tentive to the subject of the lectures. It is hoped that shortly, further facilities will be available to our students for a more intensive study of the practice which they will need in the days when they are qualified, and also to a more beneficial legal course. It is only fitting that I should recommend every apprentice, when he is in Dublin, to become a member of the Solicitors' Appren tices Debating Society. This Society is worthy of support because it affords ample opportunities to its members to become experienced in public speaking and debates. You will also benefit by the social activities of the Society. For some number of years, our examination results have not been satisfactory, in as much as very few honours have been secured. I would therefore urge those of you who are now entering their student days to endeavour to acquire such an excellent knowledge of both theory and practice, that our future examination results will disclose a more happy result. Many present are awaiting the results of the Final Examination, and to those who have passed that Examination I desire to extend very hearty congratulations and every good wish to them in the life that lies ahead. It is not out of place to impress upon the students who have now qualified that they are entering a profession with a very great history and splendid traditions. If this profession io to hold the respect and the esteem of the people whom we serve, it will depend entirely on the conduct and the man ner in which the younger practitioners conduct their business and the relations thev will maintain with the public, whom they will serve, and their fellow-members in the