The Gazette 1975

13. On application for entry of a name on the roll of solicitors 14. On application for permission to give late notice of intention to attend any examina- tion or course of lectures (or such lesser fee as the Society may accept in special circumstances). Dated this 16th day of December, 1975. Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, PATRICK C. MOORE President of The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. In pursuance of the provisions of section 82 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 as amended by section 25(1) of the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1960 I concur in the 40.00 5 00

10. On application to attend the final examina- tion— Second Law Examination

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Third Law Examination Book-keeping Examination

11. On each subsequent application to attend the final examination— Second Law Examination, or any part thereof Third Law Examination, or any part thereof Book-keeping Examination, or any part thereof 12. On each application to attend a course of lectures of the Society other than lectures on the rights, duties and responsibilities of solicitors

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making of the above regulations. Signed, THOMAS A. FINLAY,

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President of the High Court.

Retirement of Mr. Justice Budd The Judiciary, Barristers, Solicitors, and Court Officials assembled in the Supreme Court on Thursday, 18th December, 1975, at 12.30 p.m. to pay tribute to Mr. Justice F. G. Budd who was retiring as a Judge of the Supreme Court.

Added to these qualities were your Lordship's patience, politeness and compassion. Thus after a brilliant career at the Bar, Irish society has had for a quarter of a century the benefit of a remarkable and outstanding Judge who not only dispensed justice evenly and fairly between opposing litigants, but by his wise and prudent judgement on difficult and important legal problems contributed to the orderly and humane development of the laws of our State. The Law Reports have recorded this unique contribution in an enduring and per- manent form. Your Lordship has, however, left an- other legacy which takes, perhaps, a more subtle form but which is equally enduring. The high and exacting standards of hard study and serious application which you set yourself, the compassionate understanding which you showed for the problems of litigants and witnesses appearing before you have been an example to all members of the legal profession By setting this example, you have helped to maintain and strengthen traditions for the proper administration of justice in this country which are of immense importance for the preservation of ihe rule of law in our society. I have mentioned that I would wish to avail of this occasion to express to your Lordship the thanks of all the members of the Bar for the assistance you have given to us all during your period on the Bench. "An over-speaking Judge is no well-tuned cymbal" is a com- ment which members of the Bar may, from time to time, quote with particular feeling. The words follow- ing this comment are worth briefly recalling here to- day. "It is no grace to a Judge first, to find that which he might have heard in due time from the Bar; or to shew quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or Counsel too short; or to prevent information by ques- tions though pertinent". This advice given, it will be recalled by a practising member of the Bar, was written over three-and-a-half centuries ago. It could well have been written by your Lordship. It was certainly prac- tised by your Lordship. I know of no instance during your Lordship's twenty-five years on the Bench when a cross word passed between you and Counsel, between .315

The Judges of the Supreme Court sat in their places, while the Judges of the High Court stood behind them. The Attorney General, Mr. Declan Costello, S.C., as Leader of the Bar, then rose and said : It is my privilege to speak to-day on behalf of all the members of the Bar of Ireland on this occasion when your Lordship is sitting for the last time before retirement from the Supreme Court Bench. Whilst sharing with all my colleagues at the Bar a deep sense of regret that the passing years are bringing to a close a brilliant career at the Bar and later on the Bench, I nonetheless welcome the opportunity which to-day affords to record publicly our profound appreciation of your life's work in the law, our deep sense of grati- tude which, as practitioners before your Lordship in the High Court and later in the Supreme Court we all share, our affection, our sincere wishes for serene days in retirement Your Lordship was called to the Bar in 1927, after an outstanding academic career which resulted firstly in the award of an Honours Degree in H'story and Political Science by Trinity College, Dublin, and later, the bestowal of the much prized Doctorate in Laws. Within a short time your Lordship became the Leader of the Leinster Bar, a Silk before the age of forty, a Judge of the High Court in 1951, and your Lordship has been a Judge of the Supreme Court since 1966. To chronicle in this way the outstanding milestones of your Lordship's legal career is but barely to hint at how the journey was made and the qualities which you brought to it. You Lordship's outstanding intellectual gifts were, -of course, obvious. Allied to them, however, was an immense and painstaking industry and attention to detail which came, I believe, from a deep sense of duty first, as a member of the Bar, to your clients, and later, as a member of the Judiciary, to your high Office.