The Gazette 1993

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GAZETTE

JUNE 1993

Family Law: Implications for Solicitors' Practice On Saturday 10 July 1993, the Trinity College Law School is organising a conference on "Recent Developments in Family Law: The Implications for Solicitors' Practice" from 9.15 am to 1 pm in Ussher Theatre (Room 2037), Arts Building. • Revision of separation agreements in the light of the Supreme Court decision in W v. W. • Litigating cases under the Child Abduction and Enforcement of Custody Orders Act, 1991. The subjects to be considered include:

Dublin Sol icitor Opens Bus iness Centre in Madrid

L-r: Niall O'Connor, Solicitor and Tom Hayes, Director of the Irish Trade Board for Spain and Portugal, at the opening of the Grupo Irlandes Business Centre in Madrid.

Independent of their own offices they have set up a business centre whose facilities and services can be availed of by any Irish company of professional exporting or otherwise doing business in Spain. The Centre has attached to it a network of Spanish advisers and professionals to provide practical assistance to Irish companies. In addition to interpreters and trans- lators, these include English speaking lawyers and tax consultants. •

On the 26 March last Tom Hayes, Director of the Irish Trade Board for Spain and Portugal, officially opened Grupo Irlandes Business Centre in Madrid, headed by Dublin solicitor Niall O'Connor of Niall O'Connor & Co. of Fairview and Phibsborough. The firm has been providing legal services to Spanish clients for a number of years and sought to strengthen their Spanish links by opening an office in Madrid.

• Negotiating rights of spouses in relation to pensions.

• The solicitor's obligations under Section 5 of the Judicial Separation and Family Law Reform Act, 1989. • Assessing custody applications in the light of the Supreme Court decision in S. v. S.

• Pitfalls in relation to the Family Home Protection Act, 1976.

Holmes O'Malley Sexton Scholarship awarded

The cost of the Conference is £80. For further details contact: Grainrte McDermott, S c h o ol of L a w, House 39, New Square, Trinity College, Dublin 2.

Telephone 01 702 2297 Fax 01 677 0449.

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TURKS AND CAICOS ISLANDS AND THE ISLE OF MAN Samuel McCleery

Attorney - at • Law and Solictor ol PO Boot 127 In Grand Turkjurks and Calcoa Islands, British West Indies and at P. O. Box 7, Castletown, Isle ot Man will be pleased to accept Instructions generally from Irish Solicitors in the formation and adminis- tration of Exempt Turks and Calcos Island Companies and Non - Resident Isle of Man Companies as well as Trust Administration G.T Off Ice :- TW: 800 946 2810 Fax: 000 046 2819 LO.M.Offlce:- Tsf: 0624 022210 Telex : 628285 Samdan O Fax: 0624 823790

The Holmes O'Malley Sexton Scholarship worth £2,000 was recently presented to Elaine Morgan, a fourth year European Studies student specialising in law at the University of Limerick. This scholarship is presented annually to the undergraduate at the University of Limerick with the best academic performance in Law during second and third years. The photograph shows Judge Ronan Keane of the High Court presenting the Holmes O'Malley Sexton Scholarship to Elaine Morgan, with (left): Professor Noel Whelan, Vice President and Dean, College of Business, University of Limerick and (right): Gordon Holmes, Senior Partner, Holmes O 'Malley Sexton, Solicitors. •

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