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GAZETTE
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1981
Law Society Symposia . . . .
. . . very worthwhile"
"There's a lot of information coming out of it . . . "
"People are hearing things they didn't know before
"The sessions were very worthwhile . . . "
"Vox pop" comments from members of the audience
during the lunchbreak at the Society's symposium on
"The Physically Handicapped and the Future" at
Blackhall Place in January.
The
symposium was opened by Dr. Michael Woods,
Minister for Health and Social Welfare, and attended by
over eighty representatives of public bodies and voluntary
organisations.
The subjects covered were:
The Early Assessment
of Disablement
(Dr. Neil
O'Doherty, Professor of Paediatrics, Temple Street
Hospital, Dublin);
An Overview of the Situation in Ireland relating to
Disablement {
Pauline Faughnan, Deputy C.E.O., Irish
Wheelchair Association);
Education, Employment and Rehabilitation
(Dr. T. M.
Gregg, Medical Director, National Rehabilitation
Board, and Frank Flannery, General Manager,
Rehabilitation Institute);
Design for Living
(Seán Rothery, B.Arch., who showed a
number of slides of good and bad architecture in rela-
tion to handicapped persons);
The Law as Perceived by the Consumer
(Brian M alone,
Chairman, Irish Wheelchair Association);
The Legal Protection of the Handicapped Person's Assets
(Patrick O'Connor, Solicitor).
The closing speaker was Group Captain Leonard
Cheshire, V.C., D.S.O., D.F.C., founder of the Cheshire
Homes, who came to Dublin especially to attend the
symposium.
The President of the Society, Mrs. Moya Quinlan,
welcomed the Minister and participants and presided at
the first sessions. Other sessions were under the chair-
manship of the Hon. T. F. O'Higgins, Chief Justice;
David Weston, Chairman, Union of Voluntary Organ-
isations for the Handicapped; and Frank O'Donnell
Vice-President of the Law Society.
A further symposium associated with the International
Year of Disabled Persons has been organised by the Law
Society to examine the problems of the mentally handi-
capped. This will take place at the Downhill Hotel
Ballina, on June 27th.
Other symposia in the current year will be under the
general title of
The Builder and the Law
(May 16th) and
Medicine and the Law
(October 17th), both at Blackhall
Place.
Symposia arranged by the Society's Public Relations
Committee are intended to provide a forum for the
ventilation of the views and interests of the various groups
embraced by the titles, accessible to the media, and, at the
same time, to gain for the profession some insight into the
views and problems of the groups concerned.
Members of the Society are welcome to attend but by
reason of space and catering limitations, must notify their
intentions to the Public Relations Committee at least one
week before the date of the symposium.
Photographed at the Symposium were (left to right): Mrs. Moya Quinlan, President of the Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland, Mr. Patrick O'Connor, Solicitor, and Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, founder of the Cheshire Homes.
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