The Gazette 1981

JULY-AUGUST 1981

GAZETTE

Training Course for Law Clerks

demonstrations and exercises, apart from the time candidates will devote to study. The course will c omme n ce towards the end of September with the Conveyancing module, an interesting optional alternative is planned to the module on Probate and Administration of Estates, in the form of a course on Local Government Law and Practice; this should be particularly valuable to the staffs of the Dublin Corporation Law Department, of Dublin County Council and of the Local authorities in the Dublin area. Instruction will be given mainly by practising solicitors recruited and briefed by the Society. This will ensure that what is taught is relevant to the working situation. Substantive Law — where it is applicabe — will largely be covered by the lecturers from the College of Commerce. It is the Society's hope that both solicitors and clerks will perceive the benefits that will flow to the office and to the Law Clerk from the latter's attendance at the course: further information about it can be had from the College of Commerce, Rathmines, Dublin 6. Telephone 9 7 0 6 6 6.

The Society has for some time been concerned that no facility was available to Law Clerks already working as such to improve their knowledge of Legal Practice. The beginning of an attack on the problem is happily to hand, with the launching in September 1981 of an in-service course specially designed for Law Clerks in the key areas of Conveyancing, Litigation and Probate/Administration of Estates. This is a joint venture by the Society and the College of Commerce in Rathmines, Dublin, and it involves the Law Clerk's attendance at the College of Commerce for six hours each week (2-5 p.m. on Wednesdays and 7 - 10 p.m. on Thursdays) for three terms each of ten weeks. Each subject area will be covered in one term involving sixty hours of attendance at lectures,

Launch of "The Consumer and the Law" Blackball Place, Dublin, 25 June, 1981

From left: Edward Donelan B.L. and Thelma King, Solicitor, Co-Authors of the book, with Mrs. Mo ya Quinlan, President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland and Mr. Jim Murray, Director of Consumer Affairs.

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