The Gazette 1946-49

EXAMINATIONS OCTOBER 1946 Examination. Date.

tions between workers and their employers and for this purpose to establish machinery for regulating rates of remuneration and conditions of employ– ment and for the prevention and settlement of trade disputes, and to provide for certain other matters connected with the matters aforesaid." The scheme of the Bill is to provide for setting up Industrial Courts to deal with the relations between employers and employees, to register agreements between employers and employees with reference to terms and conditions of employment, and to arbitrate in trade disputes. The acceptance of the jurisdiction of the Court will be voluntary and no employee will be forced to resort to it against his will. The Bill affects the profession in several respects, principally in respect of the prohibition of the representation of parties before the Court by solicitors or barristers, under Section 19 (iv) of the Bill. This sub-section provides as follows : " Rules under this Section may provide for the cases in which such persons may appear before the Court by Counsel or solicitor and except as so provided, no person shall be entitled to appear by Counsel or solicitor before the Court." Section 10 which provides for the establishment of the Court provides that it shall consist of a Chairman and .a number of ordinary members. The Chairman will be appointed by the Minister but there is no provision under which any member of the Court will have any legal qualifications. The decision of the Court will be unappealable by virtue of Section 16, and by virtue of Section 31 any ques– tion arising in any proceedings (including pro– ceedings in a Court of law) as to the interpretation of a registered employment agreement or its applica– tion to any particular person shall be referred to the Industrial Court, whose decision shall be final. A Committee of the Council considered the provisions of the Bill as' soon as it was available and steps were immediately taken to seek an inter– view with the Minister for Industry and Commerce on the subject of the sections of the Bill referred to above. The Minister was requested to receive a joint deputation from the General Council of the Bar of Ireland and from the Society. It was pointed out in correspondence that the provisions referred to taken as a whole create an innovation which is prejudicial to the legal profession and to the right of any member of the public to legal representation before the Courts. It was also pointed out that the Council did not seek to obtain an exclusive right of audience for barristers or solicitors before the Labour Court but that it was inequitable that the Bill should contain provision empowering the Court to make rules whereby barristers and solicitors may be excluded altogether from the right of audience. The Minister in a letter in reply to the

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LECTURES 1946/'47.

JUNIOR lectures will commence on Thursday, October loth, and will be held on Mondays and Thursdays in each week during the Session. Senior lectures will commence on Friday, October nth, and will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays during the session. MICHAELMAS TERM, 1946. THE law term will commence on Thursday, loth October. LAND REGISTRY FEES ON TRANSMISSIONS ON DEATH As the result of suggestions made by the Council following the decision of the Supreme Court in re James Sheridan, a registered owner, the Minister for Finance has agreed to refund in any case in which a claim for such refund is lodged with the Registrar of Titles and duly vouched, the fees paid on or after 20th June, 1945, in respect of transmissions on death, i.e., within the six months prior to the date of the decision of the Supreme Court. Claims should be made by letter to the Registrar of Titles stating (a) Folio number and County, (b) date of lodgment of fees in Registry, (

THIS Bill is entitled " An Act to make further and better provision for promoting harmonious rela–