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GAZETTE SEPTEMBER 1990
say that he found law dear and
left it cheap; found it a sealed
book, left it a living letter; found
it the patrimony of the rich, left
if the inheritance of the poor;
found it the two-edged sword of
craft and oppression, left it the
staff of honesty and the shield
of innocence."
The writer of this notice appreci-
ates that these rallying words are
somewhat extravagant and garish.
Our Law ReformCommissioners,
Mr. Justice Ronan Keane, Judge of
the High Court (President), Mr.
John F. Buckely, Solicitor, Professor
William Duncan, Professor of Law,
Trinity College, Ms. Maureen
Gaffney, Senior Psychologist,
Eastern Health Board, and Mr.
Simon P. O'Leary, Barrister-at-Law
are essentially "assisting the
Government and the legislature in
reforming the law."
In its Report, the Law Reform
Commission provides an update on
the year's work. The year's work is
divided into several categories:
child sexual abuse; sexual offences
against the mentally handicapped;
debt collection (retention of title);
conveyancing and land law, defa-
mation; criminal libel; contempt of
court; seizure of the proceeds of
crime; dishonesty; the rule against
hearsay in criminal cases; offences
against the person; indexation of
fines; and private international law.
The Law Reform Commission
deserves our support.
Eamonn G. Hall
Association of Pension Lawyers
(Contd. from p. 291)
organisations with considerable
depth and strength in all aspects of
pensions business and our Regional
Group will certainly benefit from
being associated with them.
Our next meeting will be mid
November. The addresses will be
on technical aspects of pensions.
Everyone is welcome!
Further details with regard to
Membership can be obtained from:
Joan Flanagan, Irish Pensions Trust
Ltd, (Telephone 776591).
Information on the activities of
the Regional Group can be obtained
from: Raymonde Kelly, Irish Life
Assurance Pic., (Telephone 7402645)
and Michael Lane, New Ireland
Assurance Co. Pic. (Telephone
717077).
RAYMONDE KELLY
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The full text of the Convention (andaccession conventions),
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