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GAZETTE
NOVEMBER 1996
London charity ball
the hospital that it can only encash the
cheque if it is prepared to accept it in
full and final settlement of all
claims which it has in respect of
maintenance charges. The letter
should also provide that if the hospital is
not prepared to accept the cheque in full
and final settlement, then the cheque
should be returned to the solicitor, who
will then give it to the client and leave
the hospital to deal directly with the
client. Obviously there is an attraction
from the hospital's viewpoint in
receiving payment through the solicitor,
without the necessity of pursuing
collection and recovery against
the client.
Clearly the present uncertainty needs to
be resolved without delay and it is
hoped that the decision in
Crilly v
Farrington
will have this effect. If
uncertainty continues to exist after
this decision, pressure should be
brought to bear on the Minister for
Health to introduce regulations
which set out clearly a fixed "average
daily cost" to be charged in road
traffic accident cases.
References
1. 112 Seanad Debates Col. 191.
2. Judgment delivered 26 August 1992.
3. Judgment delivered 10 May 1993.
4. Judgment delivered 24 November 1993.
Keenan Johnson is a member of the Law
Society's Litigation Committee.
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Cliona O Tuama being thanked by Roddy Bourke (McCann FitzCerald) for the organisation of
the recent London Bar Association's Ball.
The Irish Solicitors' Bar Association,
London, held its seventh annual charity
ball at the Natural History Museum in
South Kensington last month. The event
raised a total of £15,000 for the NSPCC.
This year there was a record attendance
from Dublin solicitors' firms, with
corporate tables hosted by Dillon Eustace,
A&L Goodbody, McCann FitzGerald,
Matheson Ormsby Prentice, Beauchamps,
Philip Lee & Associates, Mason Hayes &
Curran and O'Donnell Sweeney.
The charity auction raised £8,000, while a
raffle for two return tickets to New York
(donated by Aer Lingus) raised over
£2,000. The money raised from the
charity ball will be used by the NSPCC to
help fund its sexual abuse unit at the East
London Children and Families Centre.
The charity balls have raised a total
of
£60,000 over the last seven years.
Cliona O'Tuama,
President,
Irish Solicitors' Bar Association, London.
Corporate and Public Services Solicitors' Association
Anne Counihan, Head of Legal and
Corporate Affairs at the National
Treasury Management Agency, has
been elected as President of the
Corporate and Public Services
Solicitors' Association (CPSSA). The
inaugural meeting of the Association
was held in Blackhall Place on
Wednesday, 23 October 1996.
Approximately 100 solicitors attended
the meeting.
In her address to the meeting, Anne
Counihan stressed the importance of
solicitors in the corporate and public
services sectors networking with each
other so that when support was needed,
it was available. This sector now
accounts for the employment of
500 solicitors.
Council of the CPSSA 1996/97
President:
Anne Counihan, National
Treasury Management Agency
Vice-President:
Tom O'Donoghue,
Galway County Council
Hon Treasurer:
Martin Sills, Trustee
Savings Bank
Council members:
Deirdre Leahy, ACC
Bank pic; Orla O'Neill, LGT Asset
Management Ltd; Patrick C Burke, Irish
Pensions Trust Ltd; Patricia O'Shea,
IBM Ireland Ltd; Caroline Conway, La
Touche Bond Salon Training Ltd; Ethna
McDonald, Waterford Crystal pic;
David O'Hagan, Cork Corporation;
John McDaid, Legal Aid Board; Sile
Larkin, Legal Aid Board; Maria Brown,
Chief State Solicitor's Office; Declan
Sherlock, Revenue Commissioners;
Barry Donoghue, Office of the Director
of Public Prosecutions; Martin
O'Donoghue, Kerry Group pic.
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