The Gazette 1981

SEPTEMBER 1981

GAZETTE

Golf

included Mr. Justice O'Higgins, Chief Justice, and Mr. Raymond O'Neill, S.C. The presentation was followed by a meal and some refreshments, both light and heavy and a most enjoyable evening was highlighted with entertainment by those present. A return match is contemplated for 1982, with the Bar vowing vengeance. • Correspondence "Occupiers' Rights: A N ew Hazard for Irish Conveyancers?" (June Gazette, 1981. Vol. 75, No. 5). Dear Sir, Since the above article was published, I have read the unreported case of K. v. K. in which not only the Northern Bank case but the Williams & Glyn's case was relied on by the wife who was plaintiff. In his judgment delivered on the 17th October 1980, Mr. Justice Barrington declined to apply the principles in these cases when dealing with a commercial property and with the wife in her capacity as a trader. When the wife enters into the market place trading with property which is not the matrimonial home, then, it appeared to his Lordship that the social considerations stressed in these cases have not application. Whilst this case will be greeted with some relief by conveyancers, other commentators are likely to have different views. Yours faithfully. J. M. G. Sweeney

On Friday, 26th June last, at the instigation of Andrew F. Smyth, President of the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association, the first blows were struck in what promises to be yet another facet of practice designed to help polarise the separate branches of the legal profession! On that date, teams representing the Bar and the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association battled at Portmarnock Golf Club for a perpetual challenge cup to be known as the "Sol Bar Trophy". The Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association team comprised: Pat Treacy (Captain of the Solicitors Golf Society), Andrew F. Smyth, Andrew Curneen, Gerard Walsh, Ernest Margetson, Noel T. Smith, Enda Marren, Column McKe own, Co lm Price, Paul McLoughlin and John Maher. The Bar was represented by: Patrick Geraghty, S.C. (Captain of the Bar Golfing Society), Kevin Lynch, S.C., Scamus Egan, S.C., Henry Hickey, S.C., Vincent Landy, S.C., Eoghan Fitzsimons, S.C., Hugh O'Flaherty, S.C., Liam Devalley, B.L., Ian Brennan, B.L., Ray Fullam. B.L., and The Honourable Mr. Justice Rory O'Hanlon, S.C. The overall result was a win by the Solicitors by four matches to two. Later, at a delightfully informal gathering at the Law Socicty, the formal presentation of the Cup was made by Andrew F. Smyth, President of the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association, to Mrs. Mo ya Quinlan, President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. The attendance

Photograph includes Mrs. Moya Quinlan, President of The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, the Hon. T. F. O'Higgins, Chief Justice, Mr. Raymond O'Neill, S.C.; Solicitors team: Pat Trcacy (Captain), Andrew F. Smyth, Andrew Curneen, Gerard Walsh, Ernest Margetson, Noel T. Smith, Enda Marren, Colum McKeown, Colm Price, Paul McLaughlin, John Maher. Bar team: Patrick Geraghty (Captain), Kevin Lynch, Seamus Egan, Henry Hickey, Vincent Landy, Eoghan Fitzsinons, Hugh O'Flaherty, Liam Devalley, Ian Brennan, Ray Fullam, and the Hon. Mr. Justice Rory O'Hanlon, S.C.