The Gazette 1994

GAZETTE

JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1994

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SADSI News

The 109th session of SADSI held its AGM on 2 December 1993 at Blackhall Place bringing matters for 1993 to a close. Congratulations and many thanks to Paula Murphy and her committee for a successful and eventful year in 1993. Philippa Howley was elected as auditor for 1994 after a closely fought contest with Eamonn Carney.

SADSI Committee 1993/94

Philippa Howley Benedicte Spain Ethna McDonald Cathal De Barra Seamus O 'Croinin

Auditor:

Treasurer: Secretary:

At the recent SADSI jobs seminar were l-r: Garrett Breen; Paula Murphy, immediate past auditor of SADSI; John Ellis, Ellis & Ellis Recruitment Agency; Michael Nugent, Nugent & Co., Solicitors; Julia Burke, A & L Goodbody, Solicitors; John Meade, Partner, Arthur Cox, Solicitors, and Hazel Boylan, Careers Adviser, Law Society.

Education Officer: John Menton Entertainment:

Debates Convenor: Robert Boland PRO: Michael Lynn Social Secretaries: Fidelma McManus Ann Marie Bohan

forthcoming year and we would welcome any suggestions you might have in relation to events that you would like the Committee to run or that you would like to run yourself. Please contact Phillipa Howley at Vincent & Beatty, telephone: 01 6763721 or Cathal De Barra at A. & L. Goodbody, telephone: (01) 6613311, or your regional representative. • H a l f C e n t u r y ! Commission started to make moves to liberalise Community postal services. This has helped to clarify the position of document exchanges as a legitimate form of self-delivery when used only by members for communication between each other. As a result of this clarification, the Irish Document Exchange has rapidly expanded its network since 1991 to the point where it now covers almost every town in the country through a network that, early in 1994, will comprise 50 document exchanges providing an overnight service every working day to more than 450 firms of Irish solicitors and covering an estimated 65% of the legal profession. •

organising events for 1994 including a debate in February, a karaoke and drag queen competition in March, and a ceile and traditional session in April, not to mention the regular events such as the mid-summer's ball, SADSI Olympics and much much more! The Committee looks forward to your support and participation during the In the mid 1970s, a young Australian lawyer arrived in London and was surprised to find that the legal profession in England did not have available to it the system on which her Australian colleagues relied so heavily. With English partners, she helped to set up the London Document Exchange which grew into the present British network of more than 1,000 exchanges serving more than 13,000 members. Ireland followed closely behind when a group of Irish investors backed the establishment of the DDE and, by 1979, leading Dublin solicitors were starting to rely on the DX system for communications with their colleagues. However, significant growth outside Dublin was limited until the European

Regional Representatives: Annette O'Sullivan (Cork); Lorcan Tiernan (Limerick); Tim Kiely (Midlands).

The SADSI Committee is currently

D o c u m e n t E x c h a n ge A p p r o a c h es

More than 1,000% growth in two and a half years. That is the success story of the Irish Document exchange since June 1991. It is now almost eighteen years since the Irish legal profession had the foresight to support the formation of the Dublin Document Exchange, or DDE. j The document exchange system was bom in Australia. In the late 1960s, faced with the problems of communicating j over great distances and reliance on an inefficient postal system, Australia's lawyers were crying out for a more reliable form of communication with each other. The solution turned out to be j Audsoc - The Australian Document ! Exchange, now a network comprising • aircraft, trucks, vans and foot couriers. !

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