The Gazette 1993

GAZETTE

DECEMBER 1993

N E W S

Society Appoints Lay Observers

Senior Solicitor (Professional Practice) Appointed Linda Kirwan has been appointed by the Society as Senior Solicitor (professional Practice) with effect from 22 November, 1993. She was admitted to the Roll of Solicitors in 1979 and worked in private practice and as Education Officer in the Law School prior to joining the Society in 1989 as a solicitor in the Complaints Department. In her new position Linda Kirwan will have overall charge of the Complaints Department. Her duties will include reviewing the complaints caseload and acting as adviser to the Registrar's Committee on complaints- handling, including reviewing, from time to time, the Society's complaints procedures. She will also have special responsibility for liaising with the newly-appointed lay observers to the Registrar's Committee.

The Society has appointed Lenore Mrkwicka (on the nomination of ICTU) and Frank Bracken (nominated by IBEC) as lay observers to the Registrar's Committee. Ms. Mrkwicka and Mr. Bracken commenced attending meeting of the Registrar's Committee in October, 1993.

the Women's Committee (Republic of Ireland) of Congress. Ms. Mrkwicka has also been a member of the Employment Appeals Tribunal since 1981.

Frank Bracken

Lenore Mrkwicka

i Lenore Mrkwicka originally qualified as a nurse and in 1985 joined the Irish Nurses Organisation as a full-time official and is currently a regional organiser with the organisation. She holds an MA in Industrial Relations and has been a member of the Executive Council of ICTU since 1981. She is currently chairperson of

Frank Bracken is a Chartered Secretary and is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries. He spent most of his career with Cadbury (Ireland) in administrative and senior management posts and finally as Personnel Director. Since retirement he has done project work for IBEC, the business and employers' confederation, which nominated him as a lay observer.

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