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(JAZElTE
The Special General Meeting
The President opened the meeting and
proposed that the numhered
recommendations of the Review
Working Group should be taken in
convenient groups with those
least~
likely to he contentious taken first and
those most likely to be contentious
taken last. This was agreed.
The meeting was then addressed hy
the Chairman of the Review Working
Group,
DOll Billchy.
who proposed
the resolutions. These were seconded
hy
Leo Mal/gal/.
It
would he impossihle to summarise
here at any reasonable length the
almost six hours of lively and almost
entirely constructive debate which
followed. A relatively full report of
that dehate wi II be prepared and
circulated to all solicitors prior to the
further Special General Meeting of the
Society required to make the necessary
amendments to the Bye-Laws of the
Society to implement the policy
decisions taken.
It
is expected that this
further Special General Meeting wi II
take place next July.
The next procedural step is for the
resolutions passed at the Special
General Meeting of 7 March, 1996, to
he considered and, presumahly,
adopted hy the Council of the Law
Society at its next scheduled meeting
on 19 April, 1996.
flO
Don Binchy,
Chairman, Review
Working Group
Mary Keane,
Secretary,
Review Working
Group.
MARCH 19%
MEMBERS OF THE REVIEW WORKING GROUP
Ken Murphy
Leo Mangan
Pat O'Connor
Liam Young
SOME 0
• Ten-year time-limit for crvicc on the ouncil
• Pa t Presidents to ub equ ntly attend ouncil meeting for only three year
onte ted lection. ultimat ly to replace seniority sy tern for election of Pre idents
ouncH members to be elected for two year instead of one
• 50% of ouncH eats to be contested each year
• Pre ident to be paid a ubvention ba ed on alary of
10
urn olicitor
• Fewer and smaller ociety ommittee with higher level of turnover of member
of ouncil and ommitt s with Ie s 'paper'
i on the ociety's rcpre entative role and on provi ion of ervic
although additional expenditure approved for certain
Geraldine Clarke, Council Member, addressing the meeting from the floor.