The Gazette 1994

GAZETTE

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JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1994

SADSI News

At the recent SADSI jobs seminar were l-r: Garrett Breen; Paula Murphy,

immediate

past auditor of SADSI; John Ellis, Ellis & Ellis

Recruitment

Agency; Michael Nugent, Nugent & Co., Solicitors;

Julia Burke, A & L

Goodbody, Solicitors; John Meade, Partner, Arthur Cox, Solicitors, and Hazel

Boylan, Careers Adviser, Law Society.

The 109th session of SADSI held its

AGM on 2 December 1993 at

Blackhall Place bringing matters for

1993 to a close. Congratulations and

many thanks to

Paula Murphy

and her

committee for a successful and

eventful year in 1993.

Philippa Howley

was elected as

auditor for 1994 after a closely fought

contest with

Eamonn Carney.

SADSI Committee 1993/94

Auditor:

Philippa Howley

Treasurer:

Benedicte Spain

Secretary:

Ethna McDonald

Education Officer:

John Menton

Entertainment:

Cathal De Barra

Seamus O 'Croinin

Debates Convenor:

Robert Boland

PRO:

Michael Lynn

Social Secretaries:

Fidelma McManus

Ann Marie Bohan

Regional Representatives:

Annette O'Sullivan

(Cork);

Lorcan Tiernan

(Limerick);

Tim Kiely

(Midlands).

The SADSI Committee is currently

More than 1,000% growth in two and a

half years. That is the success story of

the Irish Document exchange since June

1991. It is now almost eighteen years

since the Irish legal profession had the

foresight to support the formation of the

Dublin Document Exchange, or DDE.

The document exchange system was

bom in Australia. In the late 1960s, faced

with the problems of communicating

over great distances and reliance on an

inefficient postal system, Australia's

lawyers were crying out for a more

reliable form of communication with

each other. The solution turned out to be j

Audsoc - The Australian Document

Exchange, now a network comprising

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aircraft, trucks, vans and foot couriers.

organising events for 1994 including a

debate in February, a karaoke and

drag queen competition in March, and

a ceile and traditional session in April,

not to mention the regular events such

as the mid-summer's ball, SADSI

Olympics and much much more!

The Committee looks forward to your

support and participation during the

In the mid 1970s, a young Australian

lawyer arrived in London and was

surprised to find that the legal

profession in England did not have

available to it the system on which her

Australian colleagues relied so heavily.

With English partners, she helped to set

up the London Document Exchange

which grew into the present British

network of more than 1,000 exchanges

serving more than 13,000 members.

Ireland followed closely behind when a

group of Irish investors backed the

establishment of the DDE and, by 1979,

leading Dublin solicitors were starting

to rely on the DX system for

communications with their colleagues.

However, significant growth outside

Dublin was limited until the European

forthcoming year and we would

welcome any suggestions you might

have in relation to events that you

would like the Committee to run or that

you would like to run yourself. Please

contact

Phillipa Howley

at Vincent &

Beatty, telephone: 01 6763721 or

Cathal De Barra

at A. & L. Goodbody,

telephone: (01) 6613311, or your

regional representative.

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H a l f C e n t u r y !

Commission started to make moves to

liberalise Community postal services.

This has helped to clarify the position of

document exchanges as a legitimate

form of self-delivery when used only by

members for communication between

each other.

As a result of this clarification, the Irish

Document Exchange has rapidly

expanded its network since 1991 to the

point where it now covers almost every

town in the country through a network

that, early in 1994, will comprise 50

document exchanges providing an

overnight service every working day to

more than 450 firms of Irish solicitors

and covering an estimated 65% of the

legal profession.

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