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attended) and the rights, duties and responsibilities
of solicitors (4 lectures, of which at least three must
be attended).
Lectures will be delivered as
follows :—
Michaelmas Sittings—12 ;
Hilary Sittings—21 ;
Easter Sittings—9.
Lectures on Monday and
Wednesday at 3.30 o'clock, save where otherwise
notified.
For a selection of recommended reading see
the published syllabus for the Intermediate and
Final
Examinations.
The Lecturer will
not
necessarily undertake to cover the entire field in
each subject or lecture out of any particular text
book. He will advise the class as to its reading
and will assume that each student will have read
on the lines advised, in advance of each lecture,
on the subject-matter of the lecture. The aim of
lectures will be to guide students in their work
and
to
illustrate, explain and supplement
their
reading.
A written examination will be held at the end
of each term's lectures.
Courses B. and C. may be attended in the same
year, but Course A. must be completed before
either Course B. or C. is commenced. An apprentice
who has on ist October, 1948, already attended
and obtained credit for the Society's Junior and
Senior Lectures is eligible for Course C. lectures,
but is not obliged to attend them.
Every other
apprentice is obliged to take Courses A. B. and C.
LEGAL EDUCATION
THE Council have made new regulations amending
the regulations dated 6th October, 1948.
It is
provided that nothing
in
the regulations shall
operate so as to oblige an apprentice, who has
already attended and obtained credit for the Society's
lectures
in Common Law and Real Property,
Equity and Conveyancing, to attend any further
lectures. Every apprentice who does not fall within
the above-mentioned class will be obliged to attend
and obtain credit for courses A., B. and C., parti
culars of which are given in this
issue of the
Society's GAZETTE.
The Council attach particular
importance
to
the
new Course C
lectures on the subject of
conveyancing and general practice of a solicitor's
office, and the rights, duties and responsibilities
of a solicitor.
It is felt that these lectures will
supply a long-felt want. It is difficult for a master
in normal cases to entrust an apprentice with even
simple
conveyancing matters
owing
to
the
apprentice's lack of knowledge of the theory of
conveyancing and its application in practice, and
the difficulty of imparting instruction in this matter
in the busy atmosphere of an office.
It is hoped
that the 18 lectures on conveyancing will be devoted
to practical aspects of the matter, and will enable
an apprentice to obtain that groundwork which
will make him more useful in the office.
The
Council also hope that masters of apprentices, who
have obtained certificates of having attended and
obtained credit for Course C, will feel justified in
delegating a certain amount of conveyancing work
of a simple nature to them.
The other most important change effected by
the new regulations is in regard. to the questions
as to due service under indentures of apprenticeship.
Heretofore, the questions have been required to
be answered by the apprentice and by the master
only at the time of the apprentice's application
for admission as a solicitor. The questions to be
answered by the master will now be replaced by a
Statutory Declaration as to the apprentice's service
under indentures, and both the answers of the
apprentice as
to due service and
the master's
declaration will require to be submitted to the
Society on two occasions, the first being when
the apprentice applies for permission to attend
the
Intermediate Examination, and
the second
being at the time of the apprentice's application
for admission as a solicitor. It is also proposed to
furnish to each solicitor about to take an apprentice,
and
to
the apprentice after his
indentures of
apprenticeship have been registered, a copy of
the questions which he will be required to answer,
and a copy of the solicitor's Statutory Declaration,
so that both parties to the apprenticeship deed
will be
aware,
at
the commencement of
the
apprenticeship, of the precise obligations entailed
by the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898,
and
the
Society's regulations.
PROFESSIONAL ITEMS
Undercutting Charges
" THE Disciplinary Committee recently pronounced
their Findings and Order in a case which may
be of general interest.
The respondent was charged with professional
misconduct in that he had, notwithstanding the
provisions of Rule 2 of the Solicitors' Practice
Rules, 1936—
(a)
held himself out as being prepared to
do professional business
in
a non-