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and is open to lawyers and advanced students. There will be compulsory courses, in Legal Method and in Constitutional Method. Optional courses are available in Anti Trust Law, Copy right, Criminal Process, Criminal Law, Civil Pro cedure, Labour Law, Trusts—and Town Planning. The tuition fee for the course is 150 Guilders, approximately £17.10.0 Applicants will be required to reside in Leyden. A few scholarships will be provided. Applications for Admssion and Scholarships should bs sent before 31st March, 1970, to: Professor T. Koopmans, Executive Director, " Gravensteen," Pieterskevkhof 6, Leyden. The Netherlands. THE HIGH COURT NOTICE re CASES ON LIST The Legal Diary is primarily intended for the convenience of parties, solicitors and counsel. If it is to serve this purpose adequately it is essential that a Registrar should be informed without delay as to the course of a case appearing in the List— whether there are negotiations for a settlement, whether action or issue therein is withdrawn, and estimated length of trial. Both solicitors and coun sel should be responsible for this. Only in this way will the published List serve the very useful pur pose of indicating to all parties with some accuracy when a hearing is likely. It would also be of great assistance in the administration of the work of this Court. P. J. DUNPHY, Registrar January 1970. NEWS OF THE MONTH The white bearded Mr. Eoin O'Mahony, K.M., Barrister-at-law, who died suddenly on 14th February last at the age of 65, was a unique character who often challenged officialdom by the weight of his personality. Well versed in family genealogy, law and history, he would entertain his listeners for hours with stones many droll and unsavoury about families, great and small; he was a gifted orator who would turn up suddenly from

distant parts to plead for unpopular causes. Mr. Hubert Butler has written a well-deserved appre ciation in the Irish Times of 21st February 1970. Mr. John Webster, who practised as a lawyer in Canada, supports the case for a separate Bar in Ireland in the Irish Times of 20th February 1970, but pleads that lawyers should call in consultants to modernise their profession. Mr. Justice Barra O'Briain, in Limerick Circuit Court on 19th February said that the fees paid to defending counsel as legal aid was " a mere modi cum," compared with those paid to prosecuting counsel, who had a less onerous task. The editorial of the Law Guardian on " Secret Justice" would appear to be very appropriate as recently the Supreme Court ordered the exclusion of all solicitors and counsel save those appearing in the case of a matrimonial dispute where evid ence was heard. It is understood that this is the first time since the new courts were established in 1925 that an order prohibiting all lawyers from attending a case at hearing was made. It is to be hoped that a precedent has not been established in favour of " Secret Justice."

CORRESPONDENCE INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION

Office of the Director General : Sir Thomas Lund, C.B.E.

European Office : 14 Waterloo Place, London, S.W.I, England.

9th February 1970

Der Sir/Madam,

SECTION ON BUSINESS LAW The Council of the International Bar Association are considering plans to enlarge its activities by creating supplementary organisations to be called Sections, in which IBA Patrons and Subscribers will have substantial opportunity for individual activity and responsibility. The proposals are that 1) Membership in the Sections will be open to all IBA Patrons and Subscribers who desire to par ticipate ; 2) The Sections will have their own governing coun cils and officers and their own committees ; 3) The Sections, it is hoped, will develop periodical publications, in which the work product of com mittees and members may appear and will, from time to time, publish their membership directories so that lawyers with similar interests around the world will have a means of locating and communi- 111