The Gazette 1992

GAZETTE

DECEMBER 1992

Michael Staines

Premi ses

John Buckley, Justin McKenna, Michael O'Mahony, Noel Ryan, Barbara Cahalane (Editor).

Stephen Maher (Chairman), William Jolley (Vice-Chairman),

Adrian Bourke, Anthony Ensor, Carmel Killeen, Elma Lynch, Justin McKenna, Patrick O'Connor, Moya Quinlan, Eva Tobin.

Litigation

Gerard Doherty (Chairman), John Reidy (Vice-Chairman), Bruce St. J. Blake, James Cahill,

Stephen Maher

John Campbell, Justin Condon, Orla Coyne, Joseph Deane, Ivan Durcan, Patrick Groarke, Joseph Kelly, Noel McDonald, Eugene O'Sullivan, David Pigot, Gary Rice, Michael Tyrrell.

Michael Staines has been practising since 1976 and in 1985 formed the firm Michael J. Staines & Co. As a new member of the Council he is looking forward to representing the particular concerns and objectives of criminal lawyers and to upgrading their status both within the Law Society and generally in the profession. As Chairman of the Criminal Law Committee, he hopes "to secure adequate payment for solicitors who attend at Garda Stations, to secure an upgrading of the Attorney General's Scheme and to put forward the views of criminal law practitioners on all criminal law legislation that is brought forward."

Parliamentary

Anthony Ensor (Chairman), Ken Murphy (Vice-Chairman), Fergus Appelbe,

Family tradition and a deep interest in the buildings at Blackhall Place were the factors that motivated newly-elected member, Stephen Maher, to seek a seat on the Council. His father, John Maher, served on the Council for forty years and was President of the Society in 1964-65, while Stephen, himself, has been an active member of the Premises Committee for a number of years and will serve as its Chairman this year. "It is an issue of great importance to me that members would be satisfied with the facilities available to them both at Blackhall Place and in the Four Courts office," he says.

Donal Binchy, Owen Binchy, Stephanie Coggans, Justin Condon, John Fish, Barry St. J. Galvin, Elma Lynch, James MacGuill,

Family Law and Civil Legal Aid

Moya Quinlan (Chairman), Brian Sheridan (Vice-Chairman),

Pract i ce Development/ Continuing Legal Educat ion

Donal Binchy, Eugene Davy, Mary Devlin, Joseph Dundon, Rosemary Horgan, Pauline O'Reilly, Des Rooney.

Justin McKenna (Chairman), Dominic Dowling (Vice-Chairman),

Fred Binchy, John Glynn,

Professional Purposes

Frank Lanigan, Brian Mahon, Patrick O'Connor,

Gazette

John Harte (Chairman), Eva Tobin (Vice-Chairman), Owen Binchy, Ernest Cantillon,

Brian O'Reilly, Robert Pierce.

Eamonn Hall (Chairman), Elma Lynch (Vice-Chairman),

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