The Gazette 1976

GAZETTE

March

1976

and Mr. O'Neill said he understood that Mr. Bates was now in Court although the order of attachment had not in fact been executed. Mr. Bates was then sworn and agreed he had gone to the Irish Trust Bank premises that morning and removed certain documents and papers. These were his own and he did not need an authority to remove them. He said there was a room which was leased by the Irish Trust Bank to a company of his. The papers, which were unconnected with the Irish Trust Bank, were in that room. He had not been a director of the Irish Trust Bank since 1972 nor had he partici- pated in the day to day running of it. He worked in the room mentioned, for which he had no bank papers or documents. The Irish Trust Bank was per- mitted to use the room for board meetings. Difficulty in securing personal papers Mr. Bates said he had made a number of efforts to have these personal papers returned to him and he said that Mr. Shortall at first agreed and then changed his mind. He had gone to the premises, to an office which was not part of the bank, to collect his docu- ments. He also had some personal effects over which it could possibly be said the bank had a lien and he was very careful to leave them. Asked by Mr. O'Neill what he had done with the papers removed, he said he had taken them away and put them in another premises in Dublin. Asked where, he said on the quays. He said it was a matter for the Court to determine whether the papers belonged to him or to the Irish Trust Bank. Mr. Bates said it would take about 20 minutes to go and collect them and he told Mr.

Justice Hamilton he had no objection to being accom- panied by a Garda. Later he produced two sacks, a file and a box which, he said, were the papers he had removed from the premises that morning. He had taken them to the Crofton Hotel to sort them and had then taken them back to the place on the quays which was Ferry Travel. In sorting them out he had discovered that there was one file containing documents belonging to the Irish Trust Bank which must have been placed among his papers by a member of Mr. Shortall's staff. Apology and undertaking not to re-enter Mr. Bates apologised to the Court and gave an undertaking that he would not re-enter the premises without authority. Mr. Justice Hamilton said he thought that in the circumstances the proper procedure would be to retain the documents in the custody of the Court until the appeal had been disposed of. They would then be handed over to the liquidator and Mr. Bates could make any application that he wished to the Court for any documents that he considered personal to himself or had no connection with the Irish Trust Bank. He rescinded the order of attachment. (Continued on page 58) INTERNATIONAL SUMMER COURSES IN LEGAL ASPECTS OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION Amsterdam, 16-27 August, 1976 A General Course and a Specialised "follow-up" Course, for previous participants, in the Legal Aspects of European Integration will be held in the Europa Institute of the University of Amsterdam, 508 Heren- gracht, Amsterdam, from 16th-27th August, 1976. The General Course will comprise lectures on the institutional framework, the judicial remedies and the substantive Community Law, delivered by Drs. Volker, Schermers, Winter and Gijlstra. The Specialised "follow-up" Course will concentrate on 3 fields of Community Law — its judicial remedies, anti- trust/competition law and Company Law, right of establishment, and the lecturers will be Drs. Schermers, Winter, Baardman, Schrans and van Gerven. Both courses will be in English and the tuition fee is Df. 1,750 (approx. £150). Participants are expected to arrange their own accommodation. Application forms and further details from: The Registrar of the Inter- national Summer Courses in Legal Aspects of Euro- pean Integration, Netherlands Universities Foundation for International Co-operation (NUFFIC), 27 Molen- straat, The Hague 2003, Netherlands, and should be returned before 1st July, 1976. SOLICITORS BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION At the Annual General Meeting of the Solicitors Benevolent Association held on 24th March, 1976, it was resolved that the Annual Subscription be in- creased to £5.00 and the amount of the Life Subscrip- tion to £20.00. 57

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