The Gazette 1976

THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND GAZETTE AUGUST 1976 VOL. 70 NO. 6

SOCIETY CONSULTS LEADING AUSTRALIAN EDUCATIONALIST the Society's new Professional

course in Legal Training which will commence in 1978. Mr. O'Leary, who is a practising Barrister, and previously had practised for a number of years as a Solicitor, established the Legal Workshop at the Australian National University which is seen as a fore-runner in the field of Legal Professional training. The course is a whole-time course which trains both prospective Solicitors and Barristers and is operated by a small full-time teaching staff supported by a large number of "consultants" who are members of the Legal Pro- fesson and assist in the programme on a part-time basis. The consultants comprise Judges, members of the Bar, Solicitors, Civil Servants and members of other professions who are asked to assist in the course for not more than a few days each year. The Society's prospective Professional Law School will hopefully operate on somewhat similar lines and during his meetings with the Education Advisory Committee, members of the Education Com- mittee and Officers of the Society Mr. O'Leary has been able to offer much useful advice and assistance to us. Mr. O'Leary is the current President of the Law Council of Australia and in that capacity has recently represented Australian Lawyers at the American Bar Association Bicentennial Conference in Atlanta and at the International Bar Association Conference in Stockholm. Church and the Rights of Man. The two themes of the Dublin Conference were Family Law and the Fourth World — the problem of the poor who for some physical or mental reason are unable to support themselves, or who do not come within the scheme of State Aid. Lectures and discussions were held in Belfield and the General Family Report was presented by Mr. James O'Reilly while the Irish Family Report was presented by Mr. Gavan Duffy and the Irish Report on the Fourth World by Sister Stanislaus. Delegates had an opportunity to visit the State Apartments, as well as the antiquities of Kells, Melli- font, Monasterboyce and Glendalough. They were most grateful to the Attorney General for providing a splendid reception in Iveagh House, as well as to His Grace, the Archbishop, when they were received by Dr. O'Mahony in Clonliffe College, to Mr. Moore for receiving them in the Law Society and to Monsignor Fee for their kind reception in Maynooth. Amongst the distinguished participants were Maitre Louis Pettiti (Paris), President, Maitre Lombard, Deputy Mayor of Marseilles. Professor Salves, troni (Florence), Mr. M. Penty, Solicitor (Isleworth, near London), Professor Verdier, President of Nanterre University, Professor Wagner (Detroit, U.S.A.), Maitre Visée (Belgium), Maitre Wittgen (Luxembourg), Maitre Jacob (Paris), Father Ngundi (Zaire) and Pro- fessor Wilpert (Cologne).

Mr. O'Leary meets members of the Education Advisory Committee

Back Row, from left, Messrs. Rory O'Donnell, Brian Overend, Laurence Shields and Joseph Dundon. Front Row, from left, Messrs. Harry Sexton, Kevin O'Leary, John Buckley (Chair- man) and Maurice Curran. The Director of the Legal Workshop at the Aus- tralian National University in Canberra Mr. Kevin F. O'Leary visited Dublin at the end of August at the invitation of the Society to discuss and advise on The 9th International Conference of the Lawyers Section of Pax Romana was held in Dublin from 29th August to 3rd September, 1976. Pax Romana is a Catholic Association of University graduates and pro- fessionals to represent the intellectual elite of the Catholic religion; practically every profession has a branch of its own, and the International Lawyers Section purports to represent Catholic lawyers throughout the world. At its previous International Conferences, it has dealt with various themes such as The Family and the Legal Order, Paris, 1953, and the useful subject of Respect for Humanity in the Application of the Criminal Law, Rome, 1956. Further topics discussed were Law and International Peace, Luxembourg, 1959, Law and the Social Order, Bo c hum/ Ruhr, 1962, and Freedom of Religion in Salamanca, 1965. A strong Irish delegation, which included Mr. and Mrs. P. C. Moore and Mr. and Mrs. Bruce St. J. Blake, went to Salamanca in 1965. Conferences have also been held in Dakar, 1968, Fribourg, 1971 and Detroit, 1974, before proceeding to Dublin in 1976 About 70% of the participants were French. The Conference started on Sunday, 29th August, 1976, with a Latin Mass in the Pro-Cathedral under the Presidency of His Excellency Most Rev. Dr. Ali- brandi, Nuncio Apostolic and the President, Maitre Pettiti delivered his Inaugural Address in the after- noon in the Mater Dei Institute on "The Lawyers, the

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