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GAZETTE
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UCC Appo i n ts
Professor of Law
MWH
APRIL 1994
Brian A. Carroll,
Solicitor, has been
appointed a part-time Professor of
Law at University College, Cork.
Mr. Carroll is managing partner in the
family firm of Anthony Carroll &
Company, Fermoy, and practises in a
wide area of commercial law covering
companies and taxation, as well as
legal problems relating to agricultural
matters.
Mr. Carroll comes from a long legal
line. His grandfather was the late
Anthony Carroll
who, before the
formation of the State, was Crown
Solicitor for East Cork; his father
Edmund Carroll
, is now in his seventy
third year of active legal practice, and
his brother
Declan Carroll,
sister
Valerie Carroll,
and cousin
Justin
McCarthy,
continue to practise with
him in the family firm. The celebrated
advocate,
Tim Healy,
was also related,
as was
A.M. Sullivan,
defence counsel
for
Roger
Casement.
Mr. Carroll has taken a keen interest
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in legal education. He lectured in
University College Cork and he was
an extern examiner for the
Incorporated Law Society. He has also
lectured in the UK and Ireland for
many professional bodies. Amongst
the seminars presented by him for the
Law Society was one on VAT for
solicitors when introduced in 1982,
and another in 1985 which produced a
blueprint of a solicitor's partnership
which is still in use. Mr. Carroll
also served as a Council Member of
the Law Society and of the Institute of
Taxation and he is a Fellow
of the Chartered Institute of
Arbitrators. He is the consultant
author of
Carroll's Tax Planning in
Ireland (1986).
Mr. Carroll has also been involved in
commercial work in the US and the
UK and has been successful in a test
case before the European Court of
Justice involving joint ventures
pioneered by him for farmers.
It is hoped that the re-establishment of
a part-time Chair at UCC (an earlier
Chair having been held by
Bryan
Murphy,
Solicitor) will increase the
links between the law students and the
practising legal profession and that
students will benefit from Brian
Carroll's experience of both teaching
and being in practice.
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M i n i s t e r A n n o u n c e s E x p a n s i on o f
L e g a l A i d S c h e me
Addressing the Annual Dinner of the
Council of the Law Society on
Thursday 3 March 1994, the Minister
for Equality and Law Reform,
Mervyn
Taylor
TD, announced that he was
increasing the number of law centres
from 16 to 26 and that a further four
part-time centres would be established
this year. The Minister said that this
was the "single most significant
expansion of the services of the Legal
Aid Board since its establishment." He
stated that the grant-in-aid for the Legal
Aid Board for 1994, a sum of £5m, was
an increase of 56% over the previous
year's expenditure.
The Minister said that the Board would
be able to recruit an additional 24
solicitors and a further 34 support
personnel comprising of law clerks and
clerical staff. There would now be at
least one law centre in each county.
"The initiative now taken to expand the
services of the Legal Aid Board and to
make its facilities available on a nation-
wide basis will, more than ever before,
ensure that those most in need and of
limited means will be in a position to
avail of legal aid should they so
require." Minister Taylor also
announced that a Bill to put the Legal
Aid Board and its services on a
statutory basis was in the final stages of
being drafted and would be introduced
shortly.
In the course of his address, the
Minister also mentioned that the Legal
Aid Board would be reviewing the
extent to which the pilot project of
involvement of private practitioners in
the Scheme of Civil Legal Aid and
Advice had been a success. The
Minister claimed that there had been a
good take-up by private solicitors on
the establishment of the project,
although he acknowledged there had
been some differences of opinion
between the Law Society and his
Department about the project. But, said
the Minister, in general, the Department
and the Society co-operated fully on
important issues which, at the end of
the day, worked for the betterment of
all interests.
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