The Gazette 1958-61

Market Street, Listowel, Co. Kerry, ind place final examination June ; Jeremiah A. Reidy, Kilmallock, Co. Limerick ; Diarmuid P. Teevan, B.A. (N.U.I.), 3 Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin ; Cathal N. Young, Ashe Street, Cavan. THE MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND Session 1960-61 Patron: The Chief Justice, The Honourable Mr. Justice Conor A. Maguire. President: Professor P. N. Meenan, M.D., Barrister-at-Law. Past President: Dr. J. P. Brennan, County Coroner. Vice-Presidents: The Honourable Mr. Justice Murnaghan; Mr. Donough O'Donovan, Chief State Solicitor ; Mr. J. A. McCarthy, Senior Counsel; Dr. Francis McLaughlin; Mr. Dermot Shaw, Solicitor ; Commissioner D. Costigan ; E. Y. Exshaw, Barrister-at-Law Honorary Secretary: Miss Agnes B. Cassidy. Honorary Treasurer: Captain James A. Kelly, Solicitor. Council: Professor Maurice Hickey, State Patho logist ; Mr. Brendan McGrath, Solicitor; Mr. Herman Good, Solicitor; Dr. Shanley; Dr. Hamilton; Mr. M. B. Daly, Barrister-at-Law ; Dr. J. Fitzgerald. 'Editor of Debates: -Mr. Robert Barr, Barrister-at- Law ; Assistant 'Editor of Debates: Mr. Max Abrahamson, Solicitor. Honorary Auditor: Dr. Falvey. Programme: 2.7th October, 1960, Symposium, "The Professional Man in the World of to-day"—the following took part: T. C. J. O'Connell, M.D., Dr. Scan McCann, M.D., Darach Connolly, Solicitor and E. S. Fitzsimon, Barrister-at-Law. ID//& November, 1960, Annual Dinner, Royal Hibernian Hotel. 24/^1 November, 1960, Paper: District Justice O Riain : " The Children's Court ". i ith January, 1961 Dr. C. P. S. Hamilton, " The History of Medicine and the Law—East and West ". c,th February, 1961: Dr. Stafford Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M., Physician in psychological medicine and Director of the York Clinic, Guy's Hospital, Paper : "True Deliverance ; Medicine and the Law", ^oth March, 1961 : The Honourable Mr. Justice Walsh : "The Preliminary investigation of indictable Offences in the District Court". ASSISTANT SOLICITORS; ALLOWANCES AGAINST SCHEDULE E ASSESSMENTS The Revenue Commissioners have given the following ruling :

A solicitor employee is allowed the costs of; (a) the annual registration fee on taking out a practising certificate. (b} the Compensation Fund contribution. (/) the £i library subscription to the Society, as a deduction under schedule E where he has to bear the costs of these items himself. RENT RESTRICTIONS ACT, 1960 The Rent Restrictions Act 1960—No. 42 of 1960— was signed by the President on zist December 1960 and is now law. It is hoped to publish a summary of it later. The Rent Restrictions Act 1960 (Forms) Regu lations 1960—S.I. No. 270 of 1960—which give detailed prescribed forms relating to Notice of Increase—or of Reduction—of Rent and of Particu lars of Proposed Expenditure on Improvements— have now been published, and may be obtained from the Government Publications Sale Office, G.P.O. Arcade, Henry Street, Dublin—Price 2/- (Postage 3d. extra). The Rent Restrictions Act, 1960 is now available at 5 /- per copy. DECISIONS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST Driving offences not deemed conduct professionally disgraceful. Before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Ashworth and Mr. Justice Elwes. The Divisional Court allowed with costs this appeal under section 18 of the Veterinary Surgeons Act, 1948, by a veterinary surgeon, Mr. Arthur Hans, of Southampton, from the order of the Disciplinary Committee of the Council of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons constituted under section 4 of the Act of 1948, sitting on November I2th, 1959, that his name be removed from the Register of Members of the College, and substituted a two years' suspension. The Lord Chief Justice, giving judgment, said that the Disciplinary Committee found, first, that the appellant had twice been convicted—those convic tions were admitted—and also that he had been guilty of conduct disgraceful in a professional respect. His lordship would himself have thought that a finding against a veterinary surgeon that he had been guilty of conduct disgraceful in a profes sional respect about as serious as it could be. This surgeon had had to come to the court to say that, whatever he had done, he was not guilty of such conduct. His counsel having opened the case, it was then conceded that that finding was wrong and could not be supported. Nevertheless, it had been said that this man should suffer the extreme penalty of having his name removed from the register. His lordship