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SEPTEMBER 1992
Dates Set for
Law School Courses
The Education Committee of the
Society has decided the dates for
Professional Courses in 1993 and
1994. These are:
32nd Professional Course
18 January - 7 May, 1993
33rd Professional Course
8 June - 1 October, 1993
34th Professional Course
1 November, 1993 - 28 February,
1994
35th Professional Course
22 March - 13 July, 1994
36th Professional Course
23 August - 14 December, 1994
The dates for 1994 should be
regarded as slightly approximate. The
timetable for the 33rd Professional
Course includes a two week break
during August, 1993. The terminal
date in each case is the last date of
class contact, and the Conveyancing
Examination for each course will
occur approximately ten days after
that date. This should be borne in
mind both by apprentices and offices
in arranging their respective
commitments.
The Education Committee has also
decided the dates for the Advanced
Courses in 1993. These are:
27th Advanced
Course
15 February - 7 April, 1993
28th Advanced
Course
14 June - 30 July, 1993
29th Advanced
Course
18 October - 8 December, 1993
There may .be some modification of
the termination dates due to the
vagaries of examination timetabling.
These would also be liable to
variation if there were to be any
increase in the time allocation for
existing subjects or an introduction
of any new subjects.
With effect from the 32nd
Professional Course, commencing in
January 1993, there will be no more
than 91 students on each
Professional Course. The 32nd
Professional Course is now full.
Places on Professional Courses are
allocated on a 'first come first
served basis', provided that the
applicant is exempt, or is entitled to
apply to be exempt, the Final
Examination - First Part, or has in
fact passed that examination, and
further subject to the applicant's
actually having secured an
apprenticeship. Evidence of having
secured an apprenticeship is usually
satisfied by the apprentice submitting
to the Society the completed
application for consent to become
apprenticed together with the
necessary accompanying
documentation. In the absence of
any one condition of eligibility, such
as not having an office, or not
having passed the First Irish
Examination, an allocation will not
be made.
Offices considering the recruitment
of more than one apprentice during
1993 and 1994 may wish, on the
basis of this timetable, to seek to
have a prospective apprentice
allocated to any one particular
course. To facilitate such offices, and
in the hope of encouraging the
recruitment of apprentices, the
Society's Law School will
provisionally assign apprentices to
the courses requested by their offices
subject to full compliance in due
course by the apprentice'with the
appropriate requirements, and
subject to the availability of places
on the preferred course.
Offices seeking to avail of this
facility should apply in good time -
in effect, as soon as they are aware
of the names and circumstances of
their prospective apprentices. It will
be appreciated that it is not possible
to make arrangements once a course
has already been filled.
It should also be noted that failure
to take up a place on a particular
Professional Course by an apprentice
does not automatically ensure
postponement to the next available
Professional Course, and that in
such circumstance it will be the
responsibility of the apprentice to re-
apply for a place.
Applications, whether from offices
or apprentices, to attend on a
Professional Course, should be
submitted in writing to the
undersigned:
Albert Power,
Assistant Director of Education,
Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
Blackhall Place,
Dublin 7
Tel: (01) 710711 Ext. 326
Pre-Apprenticeship Register
The attention of practitioners is
drawn to a Pre-Apprenticeship
Register which is maintained by the
Society's Law School. This is a
comprehensive index of the names
and personal particulars of students
seeking the help of the Law Society
in securing an apprenticeship and
who are otherwise eligible to attend
the Law School's Professional
Course.
Students on the Register are
catalogued by name and their area
of origin. Accordingly practitioners,
and particularly those outside of
Dublin, are encouraged to make use
of the Register if they are
considering taking on an apprentice.
The merits of a rural practitioner
taking on an apprentice at a time
where there is some evidence of
disinclination on the part of
qualified solicitors to move to
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