The Gazette 1955-58

INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION. COLOGNE Conference Programme (July 21-26, 1958). The following topics have been selected for discussion at the 1958 conference: In Plenary Session or Symposia : i. The Problems of Tort Liability and Financial Protection arising out of International Atomic Operations. 2. The American Closed Corporation and its Equivalent, and the status of Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries in Other Countries. 3. Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices. I;; Committee Meetings : 4. The Legal Profession : (a) Insurance Protection against any and all types of Lawsuits—their Propriety and Legal ity. (b) Qualifications to Practise Law in the Foreign and International Field. (c) Consideration of the Various Plans for Provid ing Retirement Income for Members of the Legal Profession. 5. Administration of Foreign Estates. 6. International Shipbuilding Contracts. 7. Protection of Investments Abroad in Time of Peace. 8. Legal Aid. 9. International Judicial Co-operation. Members who propose to attend the conference and who would be willing to contribute papers on any of the above subjects are requested to com municate with the Secretary. LAND REGISTRY. The following letter from the Registrar of Titles is reprinted at the request of the Mayo Solicitors DEAR MR. PLUNKETT, Re Authentication of Documents Executed in the U.S.A. I am in receipt of your letter of the 25th ult. on the subject of the authentication in the U.S.A. of the execution of documents affecting lands the subject of Folios in the Land Registry. I have given consideration to the representations contained in your letter particularly with regard to certain difficulties which arise in carrying out the formalities with regard to authentication. In the 64 Bar Association : Your Kef. L/2/48. 7th April, 1948.

THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF NORTHERN IRELAND. THE President of the Society for the year 1957-58 is Mr. Leonard I. Fox. The Vice-Presidents are Mr. Thomas Q. King, Mayfair, Arthur Square, Belfast, and James J. Napier, Esq., 19 Chichester Street, Belfast. The five extraordinary members of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland are Messes. L. I. G. Fox, Thomas Q. King, James J. Napier, Charles MacLaughlin, James C. Taylor. THE SOUTHERN LAW ASSOCIATION. AT the Annual General Meeting of the Association in Cork on I5th November, 1957, the following officers were elected for the year 1957-58 : President, Mr: James W. O'Donovan; Vice- President, Bryan J. Murphy; Hon. Treasurer, Gerald J. Moloney; Hon. Secretary, James D. Donegan. The following members were appointed to represent the Association as extraordinary members of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland : Messrs. James \V. O'Donovan, Bryan J. Murphy, Edmund Hayes, J. B. Jermyn and P. J. Kavanagh. THE SOCIETY'S DINNER-DANCE. A SUCCESSFUL Dinner-Dance was held on zist November, 1957, in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. There was an attendance of approximately 320 members and friends. PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES OF ADMISSION. ON 2ist November the President at a ceremony in the Solicitors' Library presented certificates of admission to the following solicitors : Julia M. Conroy, 4 St: Francis Street, Galway ; Laurence B. Cullen, Wentworth Place, Wicklow, (3rd place, April Final, Silver Medal); John McKnight, B.A., LL.B., Dublin Road, Newry, Co. Down; Patrick Collins Powell, Woodfield, Shanakiel, Co Cork ; Scan Cormac Rynne, " China," Anglesea Avenue, Blackrock, Do. Dublin ; Andrew F. Smyth, 95 Kincora Road, Clontarf, Dublin; Thomas A. Twomey, B.A., " Newtown House," Maynooth, Co. Kildare.