The Gazette 1992

GAZETTF

OCTOBER 1992

"Law and Liberty" Trinity 400 Lectures A series of public lectures entitled " Law and Liberty in Ireland" will be staged this Autumn as part of the Trinity College quatercentenary celebrations. The lecture programme is as follows: W.R. Duncan, "Divorce, abortion and the debate about liberty", 20 October. N. Hyland, "What price freedom? - the pregnant woman in the workplace", 27 October. W .N. Osborough, "Sport, freedom and the criminal law", 3 November. B. Murray, " The right to silence and corporate crime", 10 November. A. Wheian, " The liberty of peoples: Ireland, the EC and eastern Europe", 17 November. W. Binchy, "Liberty, pluralism and the right to life", 24 November. G. Whyte, "Legal aid: access to our liberties?", 8 December. The lectures take place every Hiesday up to and including 8 December (1 December excepted), at 7.30 pm, in The Ussher Hall, 2037 Arts & Social Sciences Building, Trinity College, Dublin 2. Further information can be obtained from Anthony Wheian, Trinity College. Telephone 7022296. All are welcome. There is no charge for admission. •

court, the pre-1920 jurisdiction of the Court in regard to the enforcement of undertakings had no basis and no longer existed was, in his view, unfounded. The judge stated that sections 1 and 3 (3) of the 1960 Act were required to be construed together with the 1954 Act, referred to as the principal Act. Only Part III of the 1954 Act concerning the Disciplinary Committee was declared unconstitutional. The remainder of the Act enjoys a presumption of constitutionality including section 84 (1) which provided that " A reference in any enactment to a solicitor . . . shall be construed as a reference to a solicitor within the meaning of this Act." officers of the Court of Judicature. This preserves the jurisdiction of the Court over solicitors exercised by courts of law and equity prior to the passing of this Act. Section 78 was unrepealed and was carried over in 1922 and in 1937 was part of the law in force in Ireland. Lardner J held that the jurisdiction of the High Court to discipline solicitors as officers of the court which the plaintiffs had invoked continued to exist. q One such reference appears in section 78 of the Judicature (Ireland) Act, 1877 which provides that solicitors to whom the section applies shall be deemed to be

LAWTECH '92 - Imaging Technology Imaging - the central theme of this year's L AWTECH exhibition - is a term that describes the copying of printed material in bulk onto a computer. Imaging is widely used in law offices in the United States to store and cross-reference information such as pleadings and proofs in litigation, and is proving to be a low-cost and reliable means of storing materials such as files and accounts without the usual overhead of warehouse storage. Exhibitors at L AWTECH '92 will demonstrate a number of imaging products including document storage and litigation support packages. The growth in the use of computers in solicitors' practices has been matched by an increasing awareness that information technology offers more than just a substitute for the electric typewriter. Imaging is an application of computing from which practices stand to gain much in the future. The Law Society Technology Committee looks forward to your attendance at L AWTECH '92 which will take place on 19 and 20 November at Blackhall Place. Further information concerning L AWTECH '92 can be obtained from Veronica Donnelly at The Law Society, Blackhall Place, Dublin 7. Telephone (01) 710711. •

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SPEND MORE T/ME IN BLEEDIN'COURT THAN YOU DO!

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