The Gazette 1996

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MARCH 19%

MEMBERS OF THE REVIEW WORKING GROUP

The Special General Meeting

The President opened the meeting and proposed that the numhered recommendations of the Review Working Group should be taken in convenient groups with those least~ likely to he contentious taken first and those most likely to be contentious taken last. This was agreed. The meeting was then addressed hy the Chairman of the Review Working Group, DOll Billchy. who proposed the resolutions. These were seconded hy Leo Mal/gal/. It would he impossihle to summarise here at any reasonable length the almost six hours of lively and almost entirely constructive debate which followed. A relatively full report of that dehate wi II be prepared and circulated to all solicitors prior to the further Special General Meeting of the Society required to make the necessary amendments to the Bye-Laws of the Society to implement the policy decisions taken. It is expected that this further Special General Meeting wi II take place next July. The next procedural step is for the resolutions passed at the Special General Meeting of 7 March, 1996, to he considered and, presumahly, adopted hy the Council of the Law Society at its next scheduled meeting on 19 April, 1996.

Ken Murphy

Leo Mangan

Pat O'Connor

Liam Young

SOME 0 • Ten-year time-limit for crvicc on the ouncil • Pa t Presidents to ub equ ntly attend ouncil meeting for only three year onte ted lection. ultimat ly to replace seniority sy tern for election of Pre idents ouncH members to be elected for two year instead of one • 50% of ouncH eats to be contested each year • Pre ident to be paid a ubvention ba ed on alary of 10 urn olicitor • Fewer and smaller ociety ommittee with higher level of turnover of member of ouncil and ommitt s with Ie s 'paper' i on the ociety's rcpre entative role and on provi ion of ervic

although additional expenditure approved for certain

Don Binchy, Chairman, Review Working Group

Mary Keane, Secretary, Review Working Group.

Geraldine Clarke, Council Member, addressing the meeting from the floor.

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