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would be a brilliant success." [The Attorney-General was Charles Barry (1823- 1897) who became a Queen's Bench judge in 1872 and a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1883.] RULES OF SUPERIOR COURTS (NO. 1), 1971 S.I. No. 129 of 1971 (1) Order 4, Rule 5 (2) is henceforth amended by the following substituted words : "5 (2) The amount claimed for costs in respect of a summary summons for a liquidated demand shall be. If the demand does not exceed £5 £1.60 If the demand exceeds £5 but does not exceed £25 £2.60 If the demand exceeds £25 but does not exceed £50 £3.10 If the demand exceeds £50 but does not exceed £300 £4.10 If the demand exceeds £300 but does not exceed £600 £5.25 If the demand exceeds £600 £11.20 with £1 for each additional service after the first, and the costs of any order for issue and service, or service of the summons or notice in lieu thereof out of the jurisdiction, or for substituted or other service, of for the substitution of notice for service, or for declaring service effected sufficient, or for any notice bv advertisement of the issue of the summons." (2) In Appendix W. Part III (3) the sums of £20.90, £21.25, and £21.60 shall be deleted and the sums of £22.90, £23.25, and 23.60 in respect of witnesses expen- ses shall be substituted therefor respectively. EXAMINATION GRADINGS AND RESULTS The following grades will be awarded in future : Grade a 70 per cent to 100 per cent Grade b 60 per cent to 69 per cent Grade c 50 per cent to 59 per cent Grade d 40 per cent to 49 per cent Grade e 30 per cent to 39 per cent Grade f 20 per cent to 29 per cent Grade g Below 20 per cent In the official list letters after names indicate grades obtained in each paper and aggregate marks in the order shown. These letters are omitted here but in future examination lists will be printed in italics after the candidates' names in the numerical order of the several question papers and aggregate marks obtained. At the Book-Keeping Examination for apprentices to solicitors held on March 15th the following candidates passed : Passed with Merit : 1, Henry Lappin, B.G.L., LL.B.; 2, Raymond Cassidy; 3, Rory F. Conway, B.C.L.; 4, Jeremy Blake O'Connor, B.C.L. Passed : Terence F. Casey; Michael Collier, B.C.L., LL.B.; Anthony J. J. Connolly, B.C.L.; John J. Cor- coran; Michael Corkery, B.A.; Helen C. M. Dawson, B.C.L.; Jeremiah Desmond, B.C.L.; Bertrand G. French; Raymond A. Frost, B.C.L., LL.B., M.S.A.; R. Edmund Fry; Michael Gleeson; Diarmuid Kilcullen, B.C.L., LL.B.; Geraldine Lynch, B.A. (Mod.); Brian J. Mahon, B.A. (Mod.), LL.B.; Paul Thomas B. McCormack; Seán E. McDonnell; Nicholas J. O'Keeffe, B.C.L.; Jacqueline Ryan. Forty candidates attended; twenty-two passed. 25

Circuit Court Office for a trial peiord since April 1968. Solicitors wishing to take up draft orders should attend at the office and bespeak the particular draft order if required. When the draft has been settled the engross- ment should be made by the solicitor in the usual way and lodged for signature. The following draft orders are now available : 1. Civil Liability Order (without counterclaim) 2. Civil Liability Order (with counterclaim)

3. Ejectment Decree. 4. Ordinary Decree 5. Decrees for return of chattel 6. Order for service out of the jurisdiction 7. Order for Substituted Service 8. Workmen's Compensation Act Decree 9. Landlord and Tenant Act cases Other orders will be available later.

Thelma King ( Hon Secretary)

ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO On 11th February 1871 The Solicitors' Journal reported the speeches at the inaugural dinner of the Solicitors' Benevolent Society for Ireland held in the Hall of King's Inns, Dublin, and presided over by Lord Chan- cellor O'Hagan : "The Lord Chancellor said he had now to give the toast of the evening—'The Solicitors' Benevolent Society, and might prosperity attend it'. . . . He came there for the purpose of having that done in Ireland which had been done year after year in England, where the chief judges of the land attended on occasions precisely like that. . . . He came there . . . because he thought that the two branches of the great legal pro- fession should stand in relations of amity and confi- dence to one another. . . . These two branches, in his opinion, ought not to be amalgamated. It was best for the community that they should perform their separate functions. The experiment had been tried in America and had grossly failed; and he hoped that it would never be tried in Ireland or England. .. . The place of the solicitor was . . . honoured, responsible, and vitally important to society and the world. He was the man in whom was reposed the confidence of families; who held the muniments in which the titles of families and property subsisted; and who received and disbursed large sums of money without anything to protect his client, except his client's belief in his integrity. He was a man to whom the most delicate, secret and important affairs of life were trusted. His position was, therefore, a proud one, and the body to which he belonged had no reason to be jealous of any other. But . . . the body of solicitors was liable to the vicissitudes of human life. . .. His lordship drew from the report >of the society illustrations of the extent to which unforeseen misfor- tune. sickness, or old age, had reduced most respectable members of the profession. . . . Mr. Barlow, Vice-Presi- dent of the Society of Attorneys and Solicitors, proposed 'The Bar of Ireland'. The Attorney-General, in respond- ing, said . . . that while the members of the bar and the attorneys and solicitors should maintain towards each other an attitude of complete, perfect, and manly inde- pendence, there should . . . exist between the two profes- sions .. . relations of general intercourse and frank and disinterested friendship. He was himself the son of an attorney; he was the brother of an attorney; he was the brother-in-law of two attorneys; and he had a son who had announced his intention of becoming an apprentice to the deputy chairman of the Attorneys' Society. . . . It was impossible to look round the room without being satisfied . .. that the future career of the association