The Gazette 1978

OCTOBER 1978

GAZETTE

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Eleven reports have been presented to the High Court (seven are outstanding).

(a) Solicitor suspended from practice (b) Solicitor struck off roll and his accounts frozen (c) At present before the President (d) No action taken as solicitor was struck off roll

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11.9 Outstanding cases: (a) Order of suspension from practice was extended for a further period of twelve months 1 (b) Solicitor reproved 1 (c) Solicitor struck off roll 1 (d) Adjourned 3 11.10 On my own behalf and on behalf of the Committee I would like to express thanks and appreciation to the Clerk to the Committee, Miss Mary Lynch, for her patience, courtesy and willing assistance during the year.

12.1 The major event in the past year has been the International Bar Association's meeting in Sydney, Australia. No less than twenty-eight people from this country attended what appears to have been a most successful meeting. So far as is known, this is the largest party from this country ever to attend an I.B.A. meeting held outside Ireland. 12.2 All meetings of the Commission Consultative and the Union Internationale du Notariat Latin were attended by our representatives, John Moloney, Anthony Collins and John Fish. The Commission Consultative concerned itself, inter alia , with the installation of foreign lawyers, an enquiry into the scales of legal fees being charged in member countries and legal expenses insurance. Earlier in the year it was decided by the Commission Consultative that any lawyer practising in a member country other than his own must be provided with an identity card and some time was taken up on discussing the format and contents of this card. By the time this report is published the first of these cards will have been presented to representatives of each of the member countries at a formal ceremony in Brussels. 12.3 It is regretted that the U.I.N.L. is still awaiting the Irish contribution to the Blue Book on Ante-Nuptial Settlements. 12.4 At its meeting in County Clare in March the Policy Committee decided that representation at (he Commission Consultative and the Union Internationale du Notariat Latin should rotate. The Committee decided that each representative on these bodies should serve for a period of five years if possible and successors were appointed to the present representatives. 12.5 No progress has been made towards the provision of an E.E.C. Library and it now seems clear that this project will probably die of sheer inertia. 12.6 A meeting was held in March in Belfast with the E.E.C. Committee of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland with a view to establishing an agreement providing for greater freedom in the provision of services by solicitors on either side of the border. This meeting was frank, fruitful and followed by great hospitality. It was agreed that a further meeting would take place in Dublin but this so far has not been possible as our Northern colleagues have not made as rapid progress in the matter as had been hoped. 12.7 Each member country is required to bring into force before March 1979 legis- lation to give effect to the directive on freedom to provide services by lawyers. With this in view members of this Committee attended a meeting in July with representatives of the Bar Council and of the Department of Justice. This was a most useful meeting, remark- able for the degree of co-operation between all the parties concerned and resulted in 165

E.E.C. AND INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS COMMITTEE

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Chairman

Adrian P. Bourke Anthony E. Coffins John Fish Brendan A. McGrath Gerald J. Moloney Patrick C. Moore Laurence K. Shields Andrew F. Smyth

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John B. Jermyn, Chairman