The Gazette 1994

GAZETTE

MWH APRIL 1994

N E W S

UCC Appo i n ts Professor of Law

Brian A. Carroll, Solicitor, has been appointed a part-time Professor of Law at University College, Cork. Mr. Carroll is managing partner in the family firm of Anthony Carroll & Company, Fermoy, and practises in a wide area of commercial law covering companies and taxation, as well as legal problems relating to agricultural matters. Mr. Carroll comes from a long legal line. His grandfather was the late Anthony Carroll who, before the formation of the State, was Crown Solicitor for East Cork; his father Edmund Carroll , is now in his seventy third year of active legal practice, and his brother Declan Carroll, sister Valerie Carroll, and cousin Justin McCarthy, continue to practise with him in the family firm. The celebrated advocate, Tim Healy, was also related, as was A.M. Sullivan, defence counsel for Roger Casement.

and another in 1985 which produced a blueprint of a solicitor's partnership which is still in use. Mr. Carroll also served as a Council Member of the Law Society and of the Institute of Taxation and he is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. He is the consultant author of Carroll's Tax Planning in Ireland (1986). Mr. Carroll has also been involved in commercial work in the US and the UK and has been successful in a test case before the European Court of It is hoped that the re-establishment of a part-time Chair at UCC (an earlier Chair having been held by Bryan Murphy, Solicitor) will increase the links between the law students and the practising legal profession and that students will benefit from Brian Carroll's experience of both teaching and being in practice. • Minister also mentioned that the Legal Aid Board would be reviewing the extent to which the pilot project of involvement of private practitioners in the Scheme of Civil Legal Aid and Advice had been a success. The Minister claimed that there had been a good take-up by private solicitors on the establishment of the project, although he acknowledged there had been some differences of opinion between the Law Society and his Department about the project. But, said the Minister, in general, the Department and the Society co-operated fully on important issues which, at the end of the day, worked for the betterment of all interests. • Justice involving joint ventures pioneered by him for farmers.

Brian A. Carroll.

in legal education. He lectured in University College Cork and he was an extern examiner for the Incorporated Law Society. He has also lectured in the UK and Ireland for many professional bodies. Amongst the seminars presented by him for the Law Society was one on VAT for solicitors when introduced in 1982,

Mr. Carroll has taken a keen interest

M i n i s t e r A n n o u n c e s E x p a n s i on o f L e g a l A i d S c h e me

solicitors and a further 34 support personnel comprising of law clerks and clerical staff. There would now be at least one law centre in each county. "The initiative now taken to expand the services of the Legal Aid Board and to make its facilities available on a nation- wide basis will, more than ever before, ensure that those most in need and of limited means will be in a position to avail of legal aid should they so require." Minister Taylor also announced that a Bill to put the Legal Aid Board and its services on a statutory basis was in the final stages of being drafted and would be introduced shortly.

Addressing the Annual Dinner of the Council of the Law Society on Thursday 3 March 1994, the Minister for Equality and Law Reform, Mervyn Taylor TD, announced that he was increasing the number of law centres from 16 to 26 and that a further four part-time centres would be established this year. The Minister said that this was the "single most significant expansion of the services of the Legal Aid Board since its establishment." He stated that the grant-in-aid for the Legal Aid Board for 1994, a sum of £5m, was an increase of 56% over the previous year's expenditure.

The Minister said that the Board would be able to recruit an additional 24

In the course of his address, the

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