The Gazette 1990

GAZETTE

APRIL 1990

Younger Members News

German-Irish Lawyers

Association

On Wednesday 28th March 1990,

the German-Irish Lawyers Associa-

tion was successfully launched at

a reception in the Law Society.

Over 140 members of the Associa-

tion and guests attended the re-

ception, which was

kindly

sponsored by the German Wine

Promotion Board and Furstenberg

(Guinness Brewery, the Irish

distributors of Furstenberg).

The President of the Incor-

porated Law Society welcomed the

Ambassador of the Federal

Republic of Germany, Dr. Helmut

Rueckriegel, as well as the other

distinguished guest speakers,

members and guests.

In his address, Dr. Rueckriegel

alluded to the significance of the

timing of the launch, which

coincided with the historical

developments in Germany. Dr.

Rueckriegel noted that the current

membership of the Association

included not only solicitors,

barristers and Patent and Trade

Marks Agents in the Republic of

Ireland and the Federal Republic of

Germany but also members of

those professions from both East

Germany and Northern Ireland.

The Ambassador pointed out

that the spirit of the Association

was in true harmony with the

cross-border development in both

countries, against the background

of the 1992 Single European

Market.

The importance of the support of

the General Council of the Bar of

Ireland, the Law Society of

Northern Ireland, the Department

of Justice and the Association of

Patents and Trade Mark Agents in

Ireland was emphasised by the

contributions made respectively by

Nial Fennelly S.C., Colin Haddock,

Timothy Dalton and Andrew

Parkes. The formal part of the

reception concluded with a short

speech by the Executive Director of

the German-Irish Chamber of

Industry and Commerce, Mr.

Heinrich Zimmermann and Elmar

Conrads-Hassel, the President of

the German-Irish Lawyers Associa-

tion.

The Committee was very en-

couraged by the amount of interest

shown in the Association by Irish

lawyers from both north and south

of Ireland. The Committee now

hopes to build upon the goodwill

established at the launch and its

first seminar will be held on

Thursday, 31st May 1990. The

seminar will be addressed by Dr.

Juergen Moellering, a German

lawyer who is an expert in

competition law. He will address

the seminar on various aspects of

competition law in the Federal

Republic of Germany and Ireland.

Preceding this event the mem-

bers of the Association will meet a

group of assistants to the Judges

of the Federal Constitutional Court

(Verfassungsgericht) of West

Germany. Two lawyers of this group

will deliver papers on the forth-

coming constitutional changes

with regard to the unification of

Germany. This lecture will be held

in the Law Society on 17th May

1990 at 6.30 p.m.

Towards the end of June 1990,

before Ireland's presidency of the

European Council ends, the As-

sociation intends to hold a further

seminar on the subject of the new

legal framework in Eastern Europe

and the challenges that this poses

for Irish lawyers and business

people. Full details about this

seminar and about the rest of the

Association's programme for 1990

will be published in the May 1990

issue of the Gazette.

For further details on the

Associations' aims, membership

and seminar programmes please

contact: German-Irish Lawyers

Association, 46 Fitzwilliam Square,

Dublin 2. Tel: 01-789344/789404.

Fax: 762595.

Thursday, 31st May 1990 at

6.30 p.m.

Dr. Juergen Moellering

will address members and

friends of the newly founded

German-Irish Lawyers Association

on the topic of

German Competition Law

and the Common Market

Dr. Moellering, one of the leading

German experts on this topic, is

a lawyer in Bonn and works with

the DIHT, the German Associ-

ation of Chambers of Industry

and Commerce. He obtained his

degree in Muenster/Germany

and a Master degree in law at

the University of New York. He

spent 10 years working abroad

in English speaking countries,

four of which were in London.

For further details please

contact the German-Irish Lawyers

Association, 46 Fitzwilliam

Square, Dublin 2. Tel: 789344/

789404.

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