The Gazette 1952-1955

First Irish Examination. Richard Joseph Black, Lochlann Butler, Thomas F. Cusack, Fionnuala Duane, Michael James Hogan, John Morrissey, Kevin Coleman McGilligan, Thomas Carl O’Leary, John P. Redmond, Jeremiah A. Reidy, Donald M. Walsh, Cathal N. Young. 15 candidates attended ; 12 candidates passed. Second Irish Examination. Max W. Abrahamson, Owen Binchy, John'Francis Buckley, Patrick J. Carolan, John P. Clifford, Cliodna M. Cussen, John J. Delap, John P. Dillon, Matthew P. Drum, Edward Joseph Duffy, Patrick J. Gardiner, Gabriel F. Haughton, Gordon Alan Henderson, Patrick C. Kelly, Richard D. Kennedy, James F. Kenny, George Y . Maloney, Charles R. M. Meredith, Anthony G. Moylan, Mary Margaret Murray, Timothy B. McEniry, Albert L. O’Dea, John A. O’Gorman, Arthur J. O’Leary, James J. O’Sullivan, Gerard M. Quirk, Noel T. Smith, Michael A. Staines. 31 candidates attended; 28 candidates passed. INTERNATIONAL CIVIL AVIATION ORGANISATION. P articulars of a vacancy for the position o f legal officer o f the Legal Bureau, Montreal, Canada, have been received from the Department of Industry and Commerce. One of the essential qualifications is a thorough knowledge o f French. Further particu­ lars may be obtained from the Secretary, Department o f Industry and Commerce, Kildare Street, Dublin. PROFESSIONAL ITEMS Solicitors’ Undertaking—Enforcement by Summary Summons. A case o f interest to solicitors came before Murnaghan J. on the first motion day o f Michaelmas Term. This was a claim brought by summary summons (Form 3) and entitled “ in the matter o f ” certain named solicitors. The indorsement o f claim was in terms claiming an order requiring the defendant-solicitors in pursuance of a certain alleged letter o f undertaking to pay the plaintiffs’ certain monies. Affidavits filed by the plaintiffs set out that the plaintiffs had claims against a company who were clients o f the defendant solicitors, and that the defendants had informed the plaintiffs’ solicitors that the defendants’ clients had proceedings pending in England for a substantial sum and that the defendants undertook to discharge, out o f monies to be received by them from this source, the amount due to the plaintiffs when ascertained

observations received from Bar Associations before March 31st next. It is contemplated that the Solicitors’ Accounts Regulations will come into operation on 1st January, 1956. The draft regula­ tions are based on the following principles :— 1. A solicitor may not mix clients’ monies with his own monies. Therefore all clients’ monies should without delay be paid into a clients’ monies Bank Account. 2. A solicitor may not mix his own monies with clients’ monies. Therefore a solicitor should not pay monies o f his own into the clients’ monies Bank Account. 3. A solicitor should keep proper books of account, distinguishing his own monies from clients’ monies and showing the amount of any monies held for each client. 4. A solicitor should not lend one client’s money to another client. Therefore he may not with­ draw from the clients’ monies’ Bank Account for any client more than the amount standing to the client’ s credit. 5. A solicitor may draw from monies of a client in a clients’ monies’ Bank Account sums properly due by that client for costs or dis­ bursements. <$. Payments may not be made from a clients’ monies Bank Account by cheques to the solicitor’ s own creditors. A ll withdrawals under paragraph 5 should be by cheque payable to the solicitor himself or by transfer to the solicitor’s office account. SPECIAL EXAMINER IN IRISH. M r . R. B. Walsh, M .A., Ph.D., has been appointed Special Examiner in Irish to the Society with the approval of the Minister for Education.

FIRST AND SECOND IRISH EXAMINATIONS.

A t Examinations held on January 28th and 29th under section 40 (3) o f the Solicitors’ Act, 1954, the following candidates whose names are arranged alphabetically were successful:—

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