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require an applicant from an country other than Canada to write special examinations in Substantive Law. These are usually ex aminations on land title system which is based on the Torrens system and on Can adian constitutional law. Solicitors who have been in practise in England for three years prior to making their application in Alberta are not required to serve under articles but are required to write all the various exam inations. (7) Nova Scotia: The Qualification Committee of the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is governed by the provisions of the Barristers and Solicitors Act, Ch. 19 R.R.N.S. 1954 and Amendments and Regulations made thereunder. On admission to the Bar an individual is entitled to practice both as a barrister and solicitor. It is necessary that an applicant prove that he was in active practice preceding his application for any length of time as a solicitor in any of Her Majesty's Superior Courts of England, Northern Ireland, a State of Australia, New Zealand, or as a law agent in Scotland, or as a solicitor in the Republic of Ireland. (8) New Brunswick: It would appear that all that is necessary for any solicitor to be trans ferred from practice in Ireland to practice in New Brunswick is to take the necessary examinations and pay the required fees. MASTERS AND APPRENTICES The Society frequently receives enquiries from prospective apprentices seeking the names of solic itors who would be willing to act as their masters. The number of enquiries received in the Dublin area is particularly marked and with a view to facilitating both masters and apprentices the Soc iety are anxious to maintain lists of solicitors : (a) Who are willing to accept apprentices; (b) Who require assistant solicitors; (c) Who require employment either as assist ants or with a view to prospective partner ship. The lists are required for reference only—not recommendation. SALARIED SOLICITORS' GROUP The formation of an Association to be known as the "Salaried Solicitors' Group" has been an nounced. Membership is confined to solicitors of

the State, Commercial Enterprises, Banks, Local Authorities, Statutory Bodies and Semi-State Bodies who shall be members of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. The objects of the Group are to promote the welfare of members, advance their interests and privileges and to consult from time to time on matters of professional and mutual interest for the better discharge of their duties and to uphold the rights and privileges of the profession. The following officers were elected for 1966 at a General Meeting of the Group which was largely attended and which was addressed by the Presi dent of the Incorporated Law Society, Mr. Robert McD. Taylor : Chairman, Brendan A. McGrath; Hon. Secre tary, Michael J. Leech; Hon. Treasurer, Charles Hyland (acting); Committee—Henry Murray, Patrick Kiely, William S. Conway, E. Rory O'Connor, Charles Hyland. The Incorporated Law Society is now a negoti- ationg body within the Trade Union Act, 1941. SOCIETY OF YOUNG SOLICITORS A very well attended ordinary meeting was held as usual in Buswell's Hotel, Dublin, on 28th April, 1966, when the President of the District Court delivered his paper on the Practice of the District Court. In the course of his address, the President pointed out the pitfalls into which solicitors fall when pleading in the District Courts, outlined inter alia, the best methods in which a solicitor should handle an examination in chief, or a cross-examination of a witness. He stated that many solicitors are too verbose in court, and not conversant with their cases when they go into court. Much time spent in court could be saved by solicitors pleading on the facts in issue, and not by digressing or superfluous matters. The lecture was followed by a most lively and stimulating discussion, in which many salient mat ters were dealt with. A lecture was delivered in Buswell's Hotel, Molesworth Street, Dublin, on the 26th May, 1966, when a Senior Counsel spoke on the Pre paration and Presentation of a Case for Counsel. Voting papers for the elections of the Executive Committee to take office next October have been sent out. Scrutineers and time and place of counting of votes will be announced in the next issue of the GAZETTE. The next Joint Seminar to lie held will take place in Cork on the 22nd/23rd October, 1966