157 / 216
May, 1943]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
PROFESSORSHIP OF COMMON LAW.
The Council
invite
applications
from
Solicitors for
the Office of Professor of
Common Law to the Society.
Particulars
of duties can be obtained from the Secretary.
The newly-elected Professor will enter on
his duties next October. The appointment
will be made for one year and the person
appointed will be eligible for yearly re-appoint
ment for each of the four succeeding years.
Applications will be received
up
to June
9th, 1943, and should be addressed
to
the Secretary, Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Dublin.
EXAMINATIONS RESULTS.
The President, addressing Solicitors' ap
prentices
and
intending
apprentices
in
announcing the results of the Preliminary
and Final Examinations, held in .April, 1943,
said :—
Before reading the results of the recent
Preliminary and Final Examinations, I must
inform the students present, and in fact,
announce that the Court of Examiners have
approved of a regulation prohibiting any dis
closure of results before the Council of the
Law Society has considered and adopted the
report of the Court of Examiners.
This
regulation, enforceable from now onwards,
ends a custom which was increasing, whereby
students, by various means, obtained advance
information.
It is the desire of the Council that the
announcement of results should be regarded
tas a ceremony of importance to our students,
who have not the advantage of any formal
admission and that on the occasion of such
announcement, the President of our Society
will deliver a short address to the students.
To those who have passed their Preliminary
Examination, I would wish them every success
in their work and study. I wish to impress on
them the necessity for regular attendance in
the office where they intend to serve their
apprenticeship, and in the case of students
who will serve their apprenticeship in country
offices to impress upon them the necessity of
regular attendance in
the Town Agent's
office in the city during the period that they
will be in Dublin for the lectures. By this
means they will obtain, provided they take
an interest in the work in the office in which
they are apprenticed, a very excellent know
ledge of practice, a knowledge which will
enable them to be much more proficient when
they qualify, as many newly-qualified solici
tors are not at the moment.
I also desire to
impress upon them the necessity of regular
and punctual attendance at the lectures given
by this Society and the exercise by them of
restraint and discipline at these lectures.
Many of these students, I know, will also
attend lectures at the Universities, and if they
intend to profit by these lectures, together
with the lectures they will receive here, they
must be regular in their attendance and at
tentive to the subject of the lectures.
It is
hoped that shortly, further facilities will be
available to our students for a more intensive
study of the practice which they will need in
the days when they are qualified, and also to
a more beneficial legal course.
It is only fitting that I should recommend
every apprentice, when he is in Dublin, to
become a member of the Solicitors' Appren
tices Debating Society.
This Society is
worthy of support because it affords ample
opportunities
to
its members to become
experienced in public speaking and debates.
You will also benefit by the social activities
of the Society.
For some number of years, our examination
results have not been satisfactory, in as much
as very few honours have been secured.
I would
therefore urge
those
of
you
who are now entering their student days
to endeavour to acquire such an excellent
knowledge of both theory and practice, that
our future examination results will disclose a
more happy result.
Many present are awaiting the results of the
Final Examination, and to those who have
passed that Examination I desire to extend
very hearty congratulations and every good
wish to them in the life that lies ahead.
It is not out of place to impress upon the
students who have now qualified that they
are entering a profession with a very great
history and splendid
traditions.
If this
profession io
to hold the respect and the
esteem of the people whom we serve, it will
depend entirely on the conduct and the man
ner
in which
the younger practitioners
conduct their business and the relations thev
will maintain with the public, whom they will
serve,
and
their
fellow-members
in
the