The Gazette 1975

Amendments to Bye-Laws 146 21 days notice necessary fo special business 146 All resolutions save those listed, require to be passed by an Annual General Meeting as well as by the Council to be binding 146 If only one candidate nominated as Provincial Delegate, he can be declared elected 147 If, in an election for the Council, the number of nominations equals the number of places vacant, they can be declared elected 147 Power of Council to appoint and remove all officers and servants of the Society 147 The Council may make regulations for admission of Members, and for the management of premises of the Society, and for payment of salaries and wages to all officers and servants 147 Council no longer required to rent presses to Members 147 Council not responsible for any loss of property of Members on its premises 148 The term "Secretary" is henceforth to be replaced by "Director-General" 148 Superannuation Scheme satisfactory 148 Effects of Wealth and Capital Gains Tax 148 First Law to continue until September 1979 ... 148 Second Law and Book-keeping to continue until September 1981 148 Third Law to continue until September 1982 148 Anyone apprenticed between 1st October 1975 and 31st August 1978 may still qualify under Old Regulations 148 Graduates in Law who have taken the requisite subjects for First Law will be exempted from First Law 148 All candidates must obtain 50% in every paper of every examination 148 Proposal that Solicitor should not act for both Vendor and Purchaser referred back to Meeting of Presidents and Secretaries of Bar Associations 148 Blackhall Place—Plans for future of building outlined 148 Oireachtas Proceedings D i ll Questions Irish staff for E.E.C 50 Chairman of E.E.C. Committees 50 Estate Duty 52 Land Registry Application 53 Land Registry Delays 200 Office Transfers from Estate Duty Office 52 D i ll Elreann Land Bond Bill 1975—Second Stage 118 Finance Bill 1975 — Committee Stage — 22nd April, 1975 Part I

Medico-Legal Society — Committee for 1975-76 ... 198 Monahan, Mr. Patrick (Sligo) co-opted to the Council •• • • 3 5 Mr. Patrick C. Moore—Photo as Senior Vice- President 5 Moot Points on Privacy — Law Students Debate to 225-26 Murphy. Mr. Peter (Ballybofey) co-opted to the Council as Ulster Representative 35

National

Prices

Commission

Inquiry

under

Professor Lees — Terms of Reference

234

News Letters — August 1975

227-28

Capital Gains Tax Act — Paragraph 11, 4th Schedule. Professor Lees appointed to investigate Solicitors' Remuneration and report to National Prices Commission. Visit by President to Provincial Bar Associa- tions. Dublin Meeting of Presidents and Secretaries of Bar Associations. Time Costing Workshop Preliminary and Irish Examination Results. County Solicitors requiring Assistant Solicitors. Annual General Meeting. Contract for Blackhall Place to be signed. Draft E.E.C. Directive to provide occasional legal services in other Member States. No Fault on the Roads—Justice Report (Sieghart Chairman)—Summary of Recommendations 64 Solicitors' Accounts t o - be brought up to date. Notes and Comments 255 The Law Reform Commission. Judicial Changes. Mr. Patrick J. Dunphy. 113 O'Connell, Mr. Peter, resigns from the Council ... 253 O'Connor, Mr. Thomas Valentine, resigns from the Council 35 O'Dálaigh, President, takes leave of Court in Luxembourg 41 O'Dálaigh, President, pays an official visit to the Court in Luxembourg 182 O'Donnell, Mr. Rory, appointed to the Council as representative of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association 35 O'Dwyer, Alfred — An Appreciation 202 O'Keeffe, Mr. Justice, takes oath of office in Luxembourg 41 Ordinary General Meeting, Westport, May 1975 Welcome by Mayo Solicitors Bar Association 144 Appointment of Secretaries 144 Speech by President (Mr. Osborne) Education Regulations 14 Improvement of Conveyancing 144 Other improvements listed 144 Intrusion into confidential affairs of clients condemned 144 Criticism of Profession should be constructive and not destructive 145 Clients should be forewarned of delays 146 No worthwhile increase in Solicitors' Costs for 10 years 146 Obituary Edward H. Byrne Francis Conway (Galway) 302 63 Rowland Healy (Bray, Co. Wicklow) George A. Nolan (Waterford) Denzill B. O'Donnell John F. O'Mahony (Cork) Patrick F. O'Reilly (Dublin) John Henry Sides (Dublin) Albert Wyles Smith Patrick Treacy (Terenure, Dublin) 226 320 290 226 113 63 302

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Part II Part III

Seanad Elreann Law Reform Comission Bill 1975

164-65

Trustee

(Authorised Investments Order) —

Motion of Approval

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Mr. W. A. Osborne — Photo as President

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Partnership — Dissolution Hubert Fetherstonhaugh and James Skelly in Mount- mellick, Co. Leix 68 Practising Certificates for 1976-77 will not be be granted by the Society if no Accountant's Certificates have been issued in 1975 279 Planning Control Lecture — Public Participation in Town and Country Planning by Gordon Hyde — Speaker: John O'Loughlin Kennedy 59-62 Presentation of Parchment Certificates—December 1975 301 Presentation of Parchment Certificates—December 1974 6 Presentation of Certificates — June 1975 — Pre- liminary Notice 53 Presentation of Certificates—June 1975 195-97 President's Visit to New Zealand in April—Report 284-87 between