The Gazette 1952-1955

Vol. 48 No. 5

November, 1954

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President J oseph B aerbtt

V ia-Presidents J ohn J. N ash J ohn R. H alpin

Secretary Ew e A . P lunkett

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 9 th S eptember : The President in the Chair. Also present: Messrs. John R. Halpin, Vice-President Patrick R. Boyd, Ralph J. Walker, George g ! Overend, Arthur Cox, Thomas A. O’Reilly, Peter E. O’Connell, John Maher, Sean O hUadhaieh John J . Sheil. 8 ’ A Special General Meeting was held to consider the appointment o f a new lecturer, or lecturers for Course C, General Practice and Conveyancing. The matter was referred to the President and Secretary to be dealt with as a matter o f urgency. A number o f applications under section 47 and apprentices, applications were dealt with. 14TH O ctober : Mr. Halpin, Vice-President, in the Chair. Also present; Messrs. James R. Quirke, Arthur Cox, Cornelius J. Daly, Francis J. Lanigan, Edmund Hayes, Thomas A. O ’Reilly, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Francis J . Gearty, John Maher, Peter E. O’Connell, George G. Overend, James J. O’Connor, Henry St. J. Blake, Denis Greene, Patrick R. Boyd, George A. Nolan, Derrick M. Martin, John J. Sheil, Niall S. Gaffney, Desmond J. Collins, John Carrigan, Charles J . Downing, Ralph J. Walker,

Reginald J. Nolan, Louis E . O’Dea, Nathaniel Lacy, Patrick F. O Reilly, Dermot P. Shaw, and Tohn T. Nash, Vice-President. The late Mr. Waller. T h e Council passed in silence a vote o f sympathy with the widow and relatives o f the late Mr. T. P. Waller, B .A ., the Society’s Special Examiner in Irish for the Preliminary Examination and the Examina­ tions under the Legal Practitioners (Qualification) Act, 1929. Lecturer on General Practice, and Conveyancing. T h e Secretary reported that Mr. R. W. Johnston, B.A. (Mod.), T.C.D., had been appointed as lecturer on conveyancing practice, and had taken up duty on 4th October. The lectureship on general office practice had not yet been filled. It was decided to invite applications from solicitors for the position o f lecturer on general office practice. Law Clerks’ Joint Labour Committee. M r . J ohn C arrigan was appointed as one o f the Society’s representatives on the Committee in place o f the late Mr. Gerald O’Donnell.