The Gazette 1996

GAZETTE

MARCH 1996

IBA Crime Seminar comes

to Dublin

ORGANISED crime, syndicates,

smuggling and financial crimes are

among the topics to be discussed at

the International Bar Association's

upcoming seminar

Borderless

Crimes

and Criminal

Organisations.

The seminar, the third in a series on

The Alleged Transnational Criminal,

will be held at The Westbury Hotel in

Dublin from 24-27 May. The event

follows on from earlier seminars in

Munich and Madrid and focuses

on the role df prosecutors and

defence lawyers in combating

organised crime.

The President of Ireland, Mrs

Mary

Robinson

will provide a welcome

address at a cocktail reception on Day

Two of the event, while the Minister

for Justice, Mrs

Nora Owen,

the

Director of Public Prosecutions, Mr

Eamonn M Barnes,

the Chief Justice

Mr Justice

Liam Hamilton,

and High

Court Judge Mr. Justice

Paul Carney

will also speak.

Key addresses from foreign speakers

will be provided by IBA President

CIRCUIT COURT RULES (NO. 2)

1995

The County Registrar's Association,

for the purpose of achieving

uniformity of practice, has

recommended that the following

procedure be followed by

practitioners in respect of the issue of

Civil Bills or other originating

documents under Order 10 of the

Rules of the Circuit Court, 1950

as amended by Rules 1(1), (2) and (3)

of the Circuit Court Rules (No. 2)

1995.

(i) One Civil Bill or other

originating document must be

stamped with the appropriate fee.

Professor

J Ross Harper,

US Attorney

General

Janet Reno,

and Hong Kong's

Director of Public Prosecutions

Peter

Nguyen

QC.

London criminal lawyer

John

Clitheroe,

Vice-Chairman of the

IBA's Criminal Law Committee,

said the three-day event would

appeal to both prosecutors and

defence lawyers.

"The spread of international

crime

throughout the world is a growing

problem, " said Mr Clitheroe. "All

lawyers who are involved in

investigating and prosecuting it - and

those who have to defend against

allegations of it - need to get together

to sort out what direction

international crime is heading in,

what the threat is, and how it should

be dealt with. "

For f u r t h er information and

registration details contact the

International Bar Association's

Conferences and Seminars

Depa r tment on

0044 (171) 629 1206.

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(ii) Each Civil Bill or other

originating document must be

undated on the front thereof

and any Indorsement of

Claim thereon must be signed

by the solicitors acting on

behalf of the Plaintiff or by the

Plaintiff if the Plaintiff sues

in person.

(iii) The stamped Civil Bill or other

originating document will be

retained in the Circuit Court

Office and the sealed Civil Bill

or other originating document,

which is the original, will be

returned to the person lodging

same.

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Correspondence

The Editor

Law Society Gazette

Blackhall Place

Dublin 7

Re: Law Society Review Working

Gr oup

Dear Madam

I attended at the Special General

Meeting of the Law Society on

Thursday 7 March last. While I did not

contribute to the debate I voted in

favour of each and every one of the

recommendations made by the Review

Working Group. It is a substantial

testament to the wisdom and balance of

the Group that virtually all of the

recommendations were passed without

the slightest amendment.

Notwithstanding a lot of hot air at the

meeting I believe that it was a healthy

exercise. Hopefully rapid progress can

now be made towards implementing

the various recommendations and

hopefully this will bring an end to a lot

of the "perceptions" which people may

have about the internal workings of the

Law Society.

The Review Group have already been

publicly complimented for the very

diligent effort made on producing the

report of 6 November 1995. I associate

myself with those compliments. The

Report sets a new cornerstone for

progress and I have no doubt that all

our colleagues will, at the end of the

day, eome to recognise that this is the

right direction to be taken by the

Law Society.

Yours sincerely

John P. O'Malley

Solicitor,

38 Percy Place,

Dublin 4.

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