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GAZETTE
JULY-AUGUST 1981
Training Course for
Law Clerks
The Society has for some time been concerned that no
facility was available to Law Clerks already working as
such to improve their knowledge of Legal Practice. The
beginning of an attack on the problem is happily to hand,
with the launching in September 1981 of an in-service
course specially designed for Law Clerks in the key areas
of Conveyancing, Litigation and Probate/Administration
of Estates. This is a joint venture by the Society and the
College of Commerce in Rathmines, Dublin, and it
involves the Law Clerk's attendance at the College of
Commerce for six hours each week (2-5 p.m. on
Wednesdays and 7 - 10 p.m. on Thursdays) for three terms
each of ten weeks. Each subject area will be covered in
one term involving sixty hours of attendance at lectures,
demonstrations and exercises, apart from the time
candidates will devote to study.
The course will c omme n ce towards the end of
September with the Conveyancing module, an interesting
optional alternative is planned to the module on Probate
and Administration of Estates, in the form of a course on
Local Government Law and Practice; this should be
particularly valuable to the staffs of the Dublin
Corporation Law Department, of Dublin County Council
and of the Local authorities in the Dublin area.
Instruction will be given mainly by practising solicitors
recruited and briefed by the Society. This will ensure that
what is taught is relevant to the working situation.
Substantive Law — where it is applicabe — will largely
be covered by the lecturers from the College of
Commerce.
It is the Society's hope that both solicitors and clerks
will perceive the benefits that will flow to the office and to
the Law Clerk from the latter's attendance at the course:
further information about it can be had from the College
of Commerce, Rathmines, Dublin 6. Telephone 9 7 0 6 6 6.
Launch of "The Consumer and the Law"
Blackball Place, Dublin, 25 June, 1981
From left: Edward Donelan B.L. and Thelma King, Solicitor, Co-Authors of the book, with
Mrs. Mo ya Quinlan, President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland and Mr. Jim
Murray, Director of Consumer Affairs.
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