The Gazette 1996

GAZETTE

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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1996

P R A C T I C E

N O T E S

Company Law

The Irish and London Stock Exchanges

finally split in December 1995,

enabling legislation by way of the

Stock Exchange Act 1995 having been

passed earlier in the year.

Practitioners should be aware of new

Notes on the Listing Rules

or "Green

Pages", published by the Irish Stock

Exchange in December 1995. These

notes amend and complement the

Listing Rules of the London Stock

Exchange for the purposes of

companies listed or becoming listed on

the Irish Stock Exchange.

Copies are available from the Irish

Stock Exchange, Anglesea Street,

Dublin 2, Telephone 01 677 8808.

Legislation to establish an Irish Take-

over Panel in the light of the newly

independent Irish Stock Exchange is

Correspondence

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which you agree and some with which

you disagree. The point is that the

Committee put a huge amount of work

into this report. With your help, it will

help the Society to move forward for

all our benefit.

Yours sincerely,

Andrew Dillon.

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The Editor

Law Society Gazette

Blackhall Place

Dublin 7

Dear Madam

Just over ten years ago there was a very

interesting correspondence in your

splendid

Gazette

about firms that were

boasting on being three generations, and

expected to be circulated very shortly,

for enactment during 1996.

Company and Commercial Law

Committee

Revenue Audits of Solicitors

Practices

At the request of the Council of the

Law Society, the Taxation Committee

has prepared an article on a step-by-

step approach to Revenue Audits of

Solicitors Practices.

The article deals with issues that give

rise to difficulty in the course of an

Audit.

A copy of the article is available from

Eileen Brazil,

Secretary of the Taxation

Committee. An abbreviated form of the

article will appear in the Tax Practice

Notes with the March issue of the

Gazette.

Taxation

Committee

most of them had already, or were about

to, celebrate their centenary.

If my recollection serves me rightly ten

firms contributed to the correspondence,

ours being one of them.

At that time my daughter,

Catherine,

who had done her apprenticeship with

Messrs.

Matheson Ormsby Prentice,

and, after qualification, had gone to

London to practice with the firm of

Messrs.

Dodd Tooth and Somerton

had

joined the firm of Messrs.

Rory

O'Donnell & Co.

of Dublin.

Catherine joined this practice in July,

1993, being the fourth generation of this

firm, in an unbroken line to do so.

Please may I inquire how many firms in

Ireland can join us in this tradition.

Yours sincerely

James J.

O'Connor

Principal & Senior Partner.

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Criminal Law

Committee Seminar

in Donegal

The Committee intends to hold a

seminar in the Sand House Hotel,

Rossnowlagh, Co. Donegal on Saturday,

20 April 1996. The topics will include

the Misuse of Drugs Acts, advising

clients in custody and both the

European and the United Nations

Conventions on Human Rights. It is

expected that practitioners from both

sides of the border will attend, so please

book early.

Application form in the March issue of

the

Gazette

or from

Patricia Casey

the Law Society.

Mr Frank Goodman, Chief Executive of the

Legal Aid Board

The Minister for Equality and Law

Reform, Mr Mervyn Taylor, TD has

appointed Mr Frank Goodman as Chief

Executive of the Legal Aid Board.

Mr Goodman who was the Director of

the office of the Ombudsman had

joined that office as a Senior

Investigator in 1985 and was appointed

Director in 1990. Previously he had

served as an Inspector of Taxes in the

Revenue Commissioners.

Mr Goodman, from Dublin, was

educated in O'Connell Schools and

UCD where he obtained a B. Comm. •