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GAZETTE
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1992
News from the Law School
Repeat examination/
attendance fees
The attention of all apprentices -
and of their offices - is drawn to
a repeat examination fee and a
repeat attendance fee which will -
w i th effect from 3rd February,
1992 - respectively, apply to all
examinations repeated on either
the Professional Course or the
Advanced Course and to all repeat
days which have to be attended on
the Professional Course.
The repeat fees are:
Each paper in the Final Examination
- Second Part
£25 . 00
Each paper in the Final Examination
- Third Part
£25 . 00
Each day or part of a day on the
Professional Course . . . £25 . 00
A repeat day on the Professional
Course includes any day wh i ch an
apprentice has not attended on his
or her actual Professional Course
and is obliged to attend on a later
one.
Final E x am i n a t i on - First Part
No e x emp t i on a f t er f i ve years
The attention of practitioners and of
students is directed to Regulation
16 of the Solicitors Acts, 1954 and
1960
( App r en t i c e s h ip
and
Education) Regulations, 1991.
Regulation 16 (a) provides that a
law degree has a limited life for the
purpose of exemption from the
Society's Final Examination - First
Part. The holder of such a degree is
no longer entitled to an exemption
from the Final Examination - First
Part if more than five years have
elapsed from the 1st October in the
year in which that person obtained
the law degree.
Regulation 16 (b) reads as follows:
" I f a person who has been de-
clared by the Education Com-
mittee to have passed the Final
Examination - First Part does
not commence the Professional
Course within a period of five
years from the date of such
declaration, such person shall
cease, upon the expiration of
that period of five years, to be
e n t i t l ed t o c omme n ce t he
Professional Course unless he
shall first again sit and be
declared by the Committee to
have passed all the subjects
comprising the Final Examina-
tion - First Part."
Regulation 16 goes on to provide in
Clause (d) that a person who has
an exempting law degree and lacks
one or t w o s u b j e c ts in t he
Society's Final Examination - First
Part must pass the outstanding
subject or t wo subjects wi t h in a
period of five years from the 1st
October in the year in wh i ch that
person obtained his or her law
degree.
These provisions came into effect
on 1 January, 1992.
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Optical Imaging
Technology
(Continued from page 31)
Optical disk technology is very ex-
citing. Dangers may lie in its allure.
Legal practitioners must question
their basic requirements for such a
system if they are to make the right
decision.
For further reading see:
Issues in Implementing Image
Management System in Law Firms:
Rosemary Gray, The Law Librarian,
Vol. 22, No. 2, August 1991.
A new Image for Law Firms: John
Matthews, Computers and Law,
Vol. 2 No. 4, September 1991.
Document Image Processing: Who
Needs It? Neville Ash, Accountancy
(August) 1991.
This column is contributed by mem-
bers of the Technology
Advisory
Group, an informal grouping of soli-
citors who, with the approval of the
Technology Committee of the Law
Society, seek to promote awareness
and use of technology within the
profession. Further details from the
Honorary Secretary, John Furlong,
c/o William Fry, Solicitors,
Fitzwilton
House, Wilton Place, Dublin 2.
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Stamp Duty - No Amnesty on Interest
(Continued from page 32)
r e t r o s p e c t i on but a l l ows for
t he c h a n ge
in t he
i n t e r e st
regime.
The Revenue Comm i s s i o n e rs
appreciated that the changes to the
administration of stamp duty were
substantial and would take some
time to be fully disseminated to
practitioners. By deferring imple-
mentation for five months and
issuing a detailed statement of
practice we had hoped to bring the
changes to the attention of as
wide a public as possible. We are
a l wa ys p r epa r ed howe v er to
consider any problems that may
arise now that the provisions have
been brought into practice and to
d i s cuss t h em w i t h i nd i v i dual
solicitors or w i th the Law Society.
Yours sincerely,
Don
Thornhill,
Assistant
Secretary,
VAT & Capital Taxes.
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