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APRIL, 1930.
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FOR CIRCULATION
. AMONGST MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
March 20th.
Twenty-seven Members present.
The Secretary.
The Council passed a resolution expressing
deep sympathy with the Secretary and Mrs.
Wakely in their bereavement, through the
death of
their youngest daughter, Mrs.
Rathbone.
University College, Cork.
A letter was read from Professor C. K.
Murphy, Dean of
the Faculty of Law,
enclosing draft of revised course for law
lectures in University College, Cork, and
conveying the request of the President of
the College for the Society's formal approval
of the course. The matter was referred to
the Court of Examiners.
The lectures of University College, Cork,
may be attended by apprentices to Solicitors
for two years in order to obtain the benefits
of Section 15 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act,
1898, reducing the period of apprenticeship
to four years.
Land Registry.
A letter was read from a firm of Solicitors
drawing attention
to
the
inconvenience
arising from stamped forms not being kept
for sale at the Central Land Registry. This
matter was referred to a Committee to be
dealt with.
Employment of Solicitors in U.S.A.
A letter having been received from the
Minister for Justice stating that the Saorstat
Minister at Washington would be prepared
to place the services of the Legation at the
disposal of Solicitors in this country who
desire to employ local lawyers in the United
States to represent their interests, it being
understood that while every care would be
taken by the Legation to secure that the
legal firms recommended would be of the
highest repute, no responsibility for such
recommendations could be accepted by the
Legation.
The Minister stated that
the
Minister for External Affairs invited the
views of the Society before proceeding with
the matter.
The Council, on the recommendation of
the Privileges Committee, decided to reply
intimating that as a general
rule
Irish
Free State Solicitors do not find difficulty
in securing the services of reliable United
States Solicitors
to act as
their agents,
that the Council appreciate the offer of the
Minister, and in the event of the Minister for
External Affairs making
the
suggested
arrangement, the Council would, on hearing
further from the Minister for Justice, be
pleased
to
inform
the members of
the
Society of such arrangement.
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