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to Belfield there could, of course, be no question of anything but the fullest consultation and I hope that an opportunity for this will present itself during the coming session. Pending the clari fication of U.C.D./T.C.D. relations it is possible that a solution might be found in yery careful time-tabling as between our courses but I do not know when the library here will be available in sufficient strength to allow us to move the major part of the law school from Earlsfort Terrace. Yours sincerely, G. J. Hand, Dean of the Faculty of Law. 20 October 1970.

G. J. Hand, Esq., Dean of the Faculty of Law, University College, Dublin 2.

Dear Mr. Hand—I am directed to refer to the notice received by the Society on October 7 relat ing to the partial move of the Faculty of Law to Belfield. The Society has already been in com munication with University College pointing out that it would be impossible for solicitors' appren tices who attend the Society's law lectures here to attend lectures at Belfield during the same year and they asked the college authorities not to trans fer the Faculty of Law to Belfield in order to avoid this inconvenience. They have asked me to discuss this matter with you and I would like to do this at the earliest possible moment. Yours sincerely, Eric A. Plunkett, Secretary. 19 October 1970. Dear Mr. Plunkett—I am writing to confirm my comments on the telephone to you this after noon on the query raised in your letter of October 19. The only lectures delivered by members of the Faculty of Law which will be given in Belfield in this session are Legal System and Legal and Constitutional History for the First B.C.L. year and for the King's Inns non-university first year course. Consequently, no solicitors' apprentices will be in the position of having to attend lectures con currently at the Incorporated Law Society and at Belfield unless : (1) He has proceeded to an advanced stage with the solicitors' apprentices course before beginning his degree course—a very unlikely situation. (2) He is reading for an arts degree. (3) He chooses the optional subject Politics instead of Comparative Law in his Third B.C.L. course. I think the first condition can be disregarded. Students in the other two categories must be regarded as having made a decision to their own inconvenience. I am sure that the Society will recognise that the college could not possibly re quest the Faculty of Arts to provide special lectures for law students who wished to take an arts degree. With regard to the general matter of transfer The Secretary, Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

(Office of the Minister for Justice) (Dublin) 16 November, 1970

Eunan McCarron, Esq., Solicitor, 9 Upper Mount Street, Dublin 2.

Dear Sir—I am directed by the Minister for Justice, Mr. D. O'Malley, T.D., to refer to your letter of the 7th September regarding the sugges tion that releases of mortgages generally should be brought into line with building society vacates. An outline of a provision which would give legislative effect to this proposal has been pre pared and has been sent to the Revenue Com missioners for their observations; the Revenue Commissioners are, of course, concerned because changes in liability to stamp duties may be in volved. As to the enactment of the necessary legislation, the Minister is contemplating the inclusion of a provision on the lines suggested in the proposed Registry of Deeds Bill, which is the only measure in the Minister's present legislative programme that could suitably carry it. It will be some months yet before the Minister will be in a posi tion to ask for leave to introduce this Bill. Yours faithfully, C. S. McCarthy, Private Secretary to Minister. 117