The Gazette 1996

GAZETTE

NOVEMBER 1996

the profession; the development of the Gazette into a modern and dynamic magazine; improving the range and quality of the Society's services; and marketing them better to members. T don't think members are aware of the range of services we offer. The Society . will employ a members' services officer as soon as possible to market the commercial services we offer and to make sure that they make a profit'. But the most important goal of all, he says, is to establish the primacy of the Council as the supreme authority of the profession. 'I want the Council to lead the profession and I want the Council to work with me to make the decisions that are necessary. There must, of course, be plenty of consultation with the bar associations and the members, but we must get away from those who have decided to run the Council through the AGM. They are very welcome to put up as many candidates as they wish but they should work within Council to influence it. Council must run the profession and they should throw us out if we're not doing the job they want us to do'. English solicitors recently voted overwhelmingly to reject the separation of regulatory and representational functions, a notion that has been mooted in this country too. The new president argues strongly that this would be a bad move. 'The sign of a good and healthy profession is that it can regulate itself, says Daly. 'That means we might have to make hard decisions from time to time, and I think the Law Society record in dealing with solicitors who misbehave speaks for itself. We have acted very well on behalf of the profession in relation to the capping of claims, section 153 of the Finance Bill, and in guiding through the Solicitors Act itself without a large number of the nastier provisions that were originally contemplated'. Given the potentially troubled times ahead, and the way that the profession has changed over the years, would Frank Daly still make the same career choice today? 'Yes, very much so', he says. 'There would be no change of heart at all. It's a very satisfying career and it's great fun too'. •

Annual Election 1996/1997

Francis D. Daly is deemed to have

25. Michael Irvine 26. Michael Carroll 27. Gerard J. Doherty

882 879 833 832 806 798

been elected. The following

candidates are provisionally declared elected and the number of votes received by them appear after their

28. Orla Coyne 29. John G. Fish

names.

30. Terence McCrann

No. Elected

No. of Votes

The following are the names of the candidates who have not been provisionally elected and the number of votes received by them appears

1. Patrick O'Connor 2. Geraldine M. Clarke 4. Andrew Dillon 5. Donald P. Binchy 6. Brian J. Sheridan 7. Niall G. Casey 8. Laurence K. Shields 9. Michael D. Peart 3. John Shaw 10. Ward McEllin 11. Owen M. Binchy 12. Elma Lynch 13. Moya Quinlan 14. Anthony H. Ensor 15. Patricia McNamara 17. Andrew F. Smyth 18. James MacGuill 19. Philip M. Joyce 20. Keenan Johnson 21. Gerard F. Griffin 22. Fionnuala Breen-Walsh 16. Niall Farrell

1,233 1,176 1,174 1,161 1,157 1,130 1,119 1,106 1,104 1,100 1,076 1,062 1,056 1,053 1,016

after their names.

31. John P. O'Malley 32. Richard Bennett 33. James B. McCourt 34. Hugh O'Neill 35. Peter McDonnell 36. Sean O'Ceallaigh 37. Patrick J. Maher

789 725 696 676 653 627

583

As there was only one candidate

nominated for each of the

Provinces there was no election and the four candidates for these seats

993 981 969 960 936 923 906 906 905

were returned unopposed as

follows:

Leinster: Munster:

John B. Harte Eamon O'Brien Peter F.R. Murphy

23. Paul Connellan 24. John Costello

Ulster:

Connaught:

John D

Pictured at the IAVI Annual Dinner were (l-r): Cormac Meehan, President, Irish Auctioneers and Valuers Institute; Minister for justice Nora Owen, guest speaker and Andrew F. Smyth, then President, Law Society. 317