The Gazette 1983

GAZETTE

APRIL 1983

Tourism Symposium in Galway

Association Internationale des J eunes Avocets

There was a strong representation of the tourism and hotel industries, as well as solicitors, at the symposium organised by the Law Society on "Tourism and Public Protection" in Galway on 22nd May. The active participa- tion of members of the audience in the question-and- answer periods reflected the interest of those attending in the subject, and their reaction to the speakers. The symposium was opened by Mrs. Moya Quinlan, Past-President; and Brian Claffey (Galway) and Raymond T. Monahan (Sligo), acted as chairmen of the sessions. The Law Society was warmly thanked by Michael Brennan, general manager, P. V. Doyle Hotels Group, and Ray Joyce, traffic development manager, Shannon Free Airport Development Company, for organising the symposium and providing a forum for a discussion of views by sectors of the industry, and the opportunity of meeting with members of the solicitors' profession. Speakers were Niall Reddy, executive director-develop- ment, Bord Failte; Thomas J. Lonergan, chief executive, Irish Travel Agents' Association; Richard Birchall, managing director, The Birchall Company Ltd., adver- tising agents; and Michael V. O'Mahony, solicitor. D

The Annual Congress of AIJA — Young Lawyers International Association — will be held in Helsinki from 29th August to 2nd September 1983.

The topics chosen for the Congress are the following:

1. Divorce — Recognition of Foreign decrces. 2. The Rights of the Employee. 3. East/West Trade. 4. The Legal Profession and Tomorrow's Client. Further details of the Congress can be obtained from: Michael W. Carrigan, Eugene F. Collins & Son, Solicitors, 61 Fitzwilliam Square. Dublin 2.

C.C.B.E. MEETING IN DUBL IN

A two-day Bi-Annual Meeting of the Consultative Commission of the Bars and Law Societies of the European Communities was officially opened at the Berkeley Court Hotel, Dublin, on Thursday, 21st April, 1983. Ireland was represented at the meeting by Mr. John Cooke, S.C. of the Bar Council, and Mr. Raymond T. Monahan of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. (From left): Mr. Jean-Reignier Thys, Secretary General of the C.C.B.E.; Mr. Louis Schiltz, President of the C.C.B.E.; Mr. Michael P. Houlihan, President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland and Mr. Patrick McEntee, S.C., Chairman of the Bar Council of Ireland. 105