The Gazette 1993

APRIL . 1993

GAZETTE

ICEL Programme The Spring/Summer Programme of conferences being staged by the Irish Centre for European Law (ICEL) has as its theme: 'Doing Business in the Single European Market'. The remaining conferences in the programme are: Saturday 3 April, 1993. Jury's Hotel, Cork. Refresher Course in EC Law for Munster based Practitioners/Businesses Friday 23 April, 1993. 2.00 pm, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. Company Law Saturday 15 May, 1993. 9.15 am, Arts Building, Trinity College Dublin. The Legal Control of Public Undertakings Friday 28 May, 1993. 9.30 am, (venue in Galway to be announced). Refresher Course in EC Law for Connaught based Practitioners/Businesses Friday 11 June, 1993. 2.30 pm, Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin. A European Perspective on Trusts or Health and Safety at Work. Attendance at any of these conferences costs £45.00 per conference to ICEL members and £85 to non-members. Applications for details of membership, or reservations for any of the conferences listed above, may be made by contacting the Irish Centre for European Law, Trinity College Dublin 2. Tel: 7021081. Fax: 6794080. •

Meeting with Chief Justice and tour of Supreme Court The admission ceremony itself was followed by a reception during which there was an opportunity to meet some of the Supreme Court judges, including Mrs. Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, whose husband, as you could expect, is Irish, Mr. Justice Antonin Scalia, Mr. Justice Kennedy and Mr. Justice Warren Berger, a former Chief Justice. This was followed by a very interesting lecture on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, after which the immediate past President of the Society, Adrian Bourke, the Director General, Noel Ryan, and I had an opportunity of paying a short courtesy call on Chief Justice Rhenquist. Chief Justice Rhenquist recalled with fondness his visit last year to Ireland during which the Law Society had hosted a lunch in his honour in Blackhall Place. He was not at all put out, he said, by the ferocity of the attack launched on him earlier that morning by his colleague Mr. Justice Blackmun. He seemed to treat it very much as if it were in the nature of the job to be subjected to that kind of criticism from time to time by a colleague. He told us a little about the history of the court, mentioning, in particular, his predecessor Mr. Justice William Howard Taft who had previously been President of the United States (and is the only person in the history of the U.S. to have been both President (1909-1913) and Chief Justice (1921-1930)), and who was responsible for the building of the Supreme Court edifice. Before that, the Supreme Court was, in fact, housed in the Capitol but Taft had felt that, in order to underline the separation of powers and the importance of the independence of the judiciary, it should be moved to a separate building and this was done in the 1930s.

were entertained by three very interesting and amusing speeches - one from U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, the second from our own Mr. Justice Anthony Hederman, who was the principal guest of the Irish Lawyers Association at the admission ceremony, and the third from former congressman, Brian Donnelly (of Donnelly visa fame) who, as readers will be aware, now appears to be the front-runner for the position of American Ambassador to Ireland. In the evening, the entire group were guests at a reception given by the Charge D'Affaires, Joseph Lynch, at the Irish Embassy. Conclusion The events of our visit brought home to us, if indeed such were necessary, the success and the very high profile now achieved by Irish trained lawyers in the United States, particularly in New York. They are now an important force in the city and many are in positions of prominence with leading U.S. law firms. Quite a few are Irish-trained solicitors, members of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. As you would expect, they are very keen to maintain their links with the Law Society and, to this end - if for no other reason - the visit to Washington for the admission ceremony was a very worthwhile one. The events in the court itself on that day also underlined the very political nature of the U.S. Supreme Court and caused reflection, in the light of the reintroduction of capital punishment in many of the States, on the life and death nature of some of the decisions the court is called upon to make. Finally, a special word of praise to Brian Farren of the New York firm LeBoeuf, Lamb, Leiby & MacRae (United Kingdom), who is the current Chairman of The Irish Lawyers Association of New York, for his excellent work in organising the admission ceremony and for the invitation to the Law Society to participate. • Raymond T. Monahan

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Lunch and Reception at Irish Embassy

The events of the day were rounded off by a lunch hosted by The Irish Lawyers Association of New York in the Hyatt Regency Hotel at which we

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