The Gazette 1993

GAZETTE

Ir ish Soc iety for European Law Officers and Council for 1993-1994

If you follow this procedure it will minimise my demands, letters or phone calls to you. I will feel confident that you really understand my circumstances, that you are j capable of dealing with my problem j and that you care about doing so and that makes for a much easier life and less costly communications for you. Just think how you would feel if you were availing of a í professional service, wouldn't you like j to know:- • What is wrong or needs to be done? i | • Can the problem be remedied? A good initial consultation will minimise my communication demands. However, if you want to keep me happy, keep in touch. Establish good communication standards in your office so that my phone calls or letters are replied fo promptly, that I am copied with all correspondence and that I am contacted regularly . . . whether there is something to report or not. There is nothing more reassuring for me than to get an unsolicited update on my case. I would particularly like to know if there is any change in the likely outcome, timescale or cost. If you are up to date you can easily update me. If my transaction or case involves an area of law which you are unfamiliar or uncomfortable with - do yourself, and me, a favour by passing it on to a colleague - surveys show that I will come back to you for other matters. Once somebody becomes an expert it is difficult to remember what it was like to be a layman. Please try to imagine what it is like to be a client, i and do not unwittingly exclude me i from the conduct of my own affairs. j Let me know what I need to know, at ! the time I need to know it. • How long will it take? • How much will it cost? (b) Afterwards

President: The Hon. Mr. Justice Brian Walsh. Vice-Presidents: The Hon. Mr. Justice T. F. O'Higgins The Hon. Mr. Justice A. O'Keeffe The Hon. Mr. Justice D. Barrington Vincent Landy, Senior Counsel ! Finbarr Murphy, Barrister I Dr. Eamonn G. Hall, Solicitor. | Chairman! Vincent Power

Fionnuala Kilcullen, Barrister Monika Leech, Barrister Patrick McGovern, Solicitor John Meade, Solicitor Kieran Mooney, Barrister Andrias O Caoimh, Barrister James O'Reilly, Barrister, (Co-editor of the Society's Journal) Bryan Sheridan, Solicitor Noel Travers, Barrister Membership of the Society is open to lawyers and others interested in European Law. The current annual subscription is £30 (£10 for students, and for professional persons of less than three years standing). The subscription includes the price of the Society's Journal which is available to non-members for £45. Membership forms and further details may be obtained from The Registrar, i Jean Fitzpatrick, Solicitor's Office, Telecom Eireann, Harcourt Centre, 52 Harcourt Street, Dublin 2. (Tel. 01- 671 4444. Ext. 5929, Fax: 01 679 3980, Electronic Mail (Eirmail) (Dialcom) 74: EIM076). •

Vice-Chairman: Arthur F. Plunkett, Barrister j Hon. Secretary: I Anne Walsh, Solicitor

Hon. Treasurer: Anne Nagle, Solicitor

i Committee Members: Nuala Butler, Barrister Edwina Dunne, Solicitor I Anthony Collins, Barrister, (Co-editor | of the Society's Journal)

I Edward Donnellan, Barrister Gerard FitzGerald, Solicitor

State Solicitors' Annual Dinner

In attendance at the State Solicitors Association Annual Dinner held in Blackhall Place on 1 May, 1993 were l-r: Tim Dalton, Secretary, Department of Justice; Barry Galvin, Secretary of the State Solicitors Association and Law Society Council Member; Michael Buckley, Chief State Solicitor; Liam MacHale, President, State Solicitors Association; P. J. Culligan, Garda Commissioner; Louis Dockery, Chief State Solicitor (retiring), and Eamonn Barnes, Director of Public Prosecutions. At the dinner the State Solicitors Association made a presentation to Louis Dockery to mark his retirement as Chief State Solicitor.

Yours sincerely, A Client.

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