The Gazette 1992

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Dates Set for Law School Courses

than 91 students on each Professional Course. The 32nd Professional Course is now full. Places on Professional Courses are allocated on a 'first come first served basis', provided that the applicant is exempt, or is entitled to apply to be exempt, the Final Examination - First Part, or has in fact passed that examination, and further subject to the applicant's actually having secured an apprenticeship. Evidence of having secured an apprenticeship is usually satisfied by the apprentice submitting to the Society the completed application for consent to become apprenticed together with the necessary accompanying documentation. In the absence of any one condition of eligibility, such as not having an office, or not having passed the First Irish Examination, an allocation will not be made. Offices considering the recruitment of more than one apprentice during 1993 and 1994 may wish, on the basis of this timetable, to seek to have a prospective apprentice allocated to any one particular course. To facilitate such offices, and in the hope of encouraging the recruitment of apprentices, the Society's Law School will provisionally assign apprentices to the courses requested by their offices subject to full compliance in due course by the apprentice'with the appropriate requirements, and subject to the availability of places on the preferred course. Offices seeking to avail of this facility should apply in good time - in effect, as soon as they are aware of the names and circumstances of their prospective apprentices. It will be appreciated that it is not possible to make arrangements once a course has already been filled.

The Education Committee of the Society has decided the dates for Professional Courses in 1993 and 1994. These are: 32nd Professional Course 18 January - 7 May, 1993 33rd Professional Course 8 June - 1 October, 1993 34th Professional Course 1 November, 1993 - 28 February, 1994 35th Professional Course 22 March - 13 July, 1994 36th Professional Course 23 August - 14 December, 1994 The dates for 1994 should be regarded as slightly approximate. The timetable for the 33rd Professional Course includes a two week break during August, 1993. The terminal date in each case is the last date of class contact, and the Conveyancing Examination for each course will occur approximately ten days after that date. This should be borne in mind both by apprentices and offices in arranging their respective commitments. The Education Committee has also decided the dates for the Advanced Courses in 1993. These are: 27th Advanced Course 15 February - 7 April, 1993 28th Advanced Course 14 June - 30 July, 1993 29th Advanced Course 18 October - 8 December, 1993 There may .be some modification of the termination dates due to the vagaries of examination timetabling. These would also be liable to variation if there were to be any increase in the time allocation for existing subjects or an introduction of any new subjects. With effect from the 32nd Professional Course, commencing in January 1993, there will be no more

It should also be noted that failure to take up a place on a particular Professional Course by an apprentice does not automatically ensure postponement to the next available Professional Course, and that in such circumstance it will be the responsibility of the apprentice to re- apply for a place. Applications, whether from offices or apprentices, to attend on a Professional Course, should be submitted in writing to the undersigned: Albert Power, Assistant Director of Education, Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7 Pre-Apprenticeship Register The attention of practitioners is drawn to a Pre-Apprenticeship Register which is maintained by the Society's Law School. This is a comprehensive index of the names and personal particulars of students seeking the help of the Law Society in securing an apprenticeship and who are otherwise eligible to attend the Law School's Professional Course. Students on the Register are catalogued by name and their area of origin. Accordingly practitioners, and particularly those outside of Dublin, are encouraged to make use of the Register if they are considering taking on an apprentice. The merits of a rural practitioner taking on an apprentice at a time where there is some evidence of Tel: (01) 710711 Ext. 326

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