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NOVEMBER 1992
At the reception to mark the Centenary of the Land Registry were: l-r: Catherine Treacy,
Registrar, the Honourable Ms. Justice Mella Carroll; Padraig Flynn, T.D., Minister for
Justice; Harold A. Whelehan, Attorney General
Interim Board to the Registries. Its
Chairman is
Joe Moran.
That Board
will advise me on the various steps
which need to be taken in readiness
for the reconstitution. The Board
has begun its work. Meanwhile, I've
made a start on the legislation
necessary to formally vest the
Registries in a Semi-State Board."
The Minister publicly acknowledged
the work of the current Registrar,
Catherine Treacy,
and her staff. He
also paid tribute to some of
Catherine Treacy's predecessors
including
William Erskine Glover
whose term of office commenced in
1892 with a blaze - not of glory -
but rather a disastrous fire which
destroyed many of the Registry's
documents,
Desmond McA lister
who
served as Registrar from 1958-1975,
Nevin Griffith,
son of Arthur
Griffith who served as Registrar
from 1975-1978 and
Brendan
Fitzgerald
who served from
1983-1988.
The Minister commended a book,
written for the most part by the
Land Registry staff, which was
published to mark the centenary of
the Registries.
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jurisdictions in implementing the
Directive. Finally, the Report sets out
the discussions which ensued after
the reading of the various papers.
The provisions of the Directive
should be implemented in each
Member State before 31 December,
1992. At the time of writing it is not
known whether the Irish Government
intends to implement the Directive
by way of statute amending our 1963
Trade Mark Act or by way of
regulation made pursuant to Section
3 of the European Communities Act,
1972. Most of the other Member
States have implemented the
Directive but it is believed that the
UK and Germany may not have
implemented it by 31 December,
1992.
The Report will have very limited
interest for practitioners but
does provide useful background
reading on the history of the
Directive and the effect on the trade
mark law of some of the Member
States.
Ken Parkinson
New Pres ident of
the Law Reform
Commi s s i on
The Honourable Mr. Justice Anthony
Hederman
The Government has appointed Mr.
Justice
Anthony J. Hederman
to be
President of the Law Reform
Commission for a five year period
with effect from 20 October.
Mr. Justice Hederman, who was
educated at Castleknock College,
UCD and the King's Inns, was called
to the Bar in 1944. He was called to
the Inner Bar in 1965, having been
Judge Advocate General from 1959
until 1965.
He held office as Attorney General
from 6 July, 1977 until 29 June,
1981, when he was appointed a
Judge of the Supreme Court.
The other members of the
Commission, who were appointed by
the Government for a five year term
from 2 January last, are:
John F. Buckley,
Solicitor, (member
of the Editorial Board of the
Gazette
and Chairman of the Law Society's
Publications Committee);
Simon P.
O'Leary,
Barrister-at-Law;
William
Robert Duncan,
Associate Professor
of Law, University of Dublin, and
Maureen Gaffney,
Senior
Psychologist, Eastern Health
Board.
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