The Gazette 1946-49

August, 1948

Vol. 42 No. 4

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Secretary: ERIC A. PLUNKFIT

'President : SEAN O HUADHAIGH

Wee-Presidents : JAMES R. QUIRKE, JOHN J. SMITH.

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL JULY 22ND. The President in the chair: Also present: Mr. James R. Quirke, Vice-President; Messrs. Daniel O'Connell, Roger Greene, Patrick R. Boyd, Reginald J. Nolan, John J. Bolger, J. Travers Wolfe, James P. Carrigan, William J. Norman, Henry P. Mayne, William S. Hayes, Francis J. Gearty, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Anthony J. Malone, Arthur Cox, Joseph Barrett, William L. Duggan, Patrick F. O'Reilly, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Dermot P. Shaw. The following was among the business trans acted :— New Lecturers ON a report from the Court of Examiners the Council appointed Mr. R. W. Roche Johnston, LL.B., of 20 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, as lecturer on conveyancing and Mr. Desmond A. O'Connor, of 140 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, as lecturer on general practice.

Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee ON a report from the Legislation and Privileges Committee the Council approved draft representa tions from the Society on the subject of the proposed recommendations to the Labour Court issued by the Joint Labour Committee on zand June. The Council also considered a report from the same Committee on a query from a member as to whether the reference to first and later years of employment, in the various scales of wages, refer to employment in a solicitor's office, particularly in regard to Typists and Shorthand Typists. It was ordered that the member be informed that the construction of the order is a matter for individual solicitors, and in the last resort, for a Court of Justice, but, subject thereto, the opinion of the Council is that the reference to years of employment means years of employment in a solicitor's office. Certificates of Discharge from Death Duties THE Secretary reported that, following a deputation from the Society and from the Irish Banks' Standing