The Gazette 1978

GAZETTE

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1978

LAW SOCIETY NOTES THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY

UNDERTAKINGS COMMITTEE Letters of Undertaking in quadriplicate, officially approved by the Council of the Society, are expected to be available at the Society's Offices, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7, on 1st May, next. Each series of letters will consist of recommendations to the undertaking Solicitor, client's authority and retainer, provisions in respect of the Family Home Protection Act, 1976, and four copies of each letter—for the recipient, the deed holder, the file, and the Central Register of a Solicitor's office, respectively.

1977 December 16th Attended at Midland Bar Association dinner dance at Tullamore. 1978 January 18th Attended luncheon given by Mr. Kieran Condell, Managing Director, Northern Bank Finance Corporation, and senior executives of N.B.F.C. January 20th Attended Seminar organised by Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association on office management at Royal Marine Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, and later attended Galway Bar Association dinner dance at Ardelaun Hotel, Galway. January 27th Represented by Mrs. Moya Quinlan, Junior Vice- President, at Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating Society Inaugural meeting in Dublin. January 28th Attended Inaugural meeting of the Ordre des Avocats of the Paris Bar at the Palais de Justice and later dinner given by the Batonnier of the Paris Bar, Maitre Louis Petiti and the Council of the Order. February 2nd Attended dinner of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin. February 3rd Attended a solemn sitting of the Superior Courts at the Supreme Court to welcome Professor Hans Kutcher, President of the European Court, and later dinner given by the Honourable Sodety of the Benchers at the Kings Inns. February 3rd Attended luncheon with Mr. Michael Culligan, General Manager, Agricultural Credit Corporation, and Mr. Dermot Jones and Mr. V. Philips. February 4th Represented by Mrs. Moya Quinlan, Junior Vice- President, at the annual dinner of the Institute of Certified Accountants. February 11th Attended annual dinner of the Southern Law Association at the Metropole Hotel, Cork. Survay of Solicitors' Earnings, 1977 Copies of the above report, prepared by Coopers & Lybrand Associates Ltd., on the basis of returns furnished by 201 firms, are now available from the Society at a cost of £1.00 plus 0.19p postage. An application has been made to the Minister for Industry, Commerce, & Energy, for a further review of solicitors' earnings on the basis of the information contained in the report.

DUBLIN DOCUMENT EXCHANGE

The Society is now a member of the Dublin Document Exchange, located at 3 Molesworth Place, Dublin 2. Our Box No. is 79.

LAW SOCIETY THREE-DAY CONFERENCE Dunloe Castle Hotel, Killarney FRIDAY, 5th MA Y - SUNDAY, 7th MAY 1978

Programme subjects will include—

"The Abolition of the Scale Fee?" "Have the Courts failed the Family?" "Should Single Practitioner Offices be Abolished?" "Child Criminals?" This is not a Seminar. This is not the old Half- Yearly Meeting. This is an opportunity for the profession to express their views on important issues both legal and social. Full programme will be circulated shortly.

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