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EXAMINATIONS OCTOBER 1946
Examination.
Final
Intermediate
First Irish
Second Irish
Preliminary
Date.
October
ist and and
3 rd
4th
4th and 5th
yth and 8th
Latest date for
giving notici.
loth September.
12th
13th
13th
16th
LECTURES 1946/'47.
JUNIOR
lectures will commence on Thursday,
October loth, and will be held on Mondays and
Thursdays in each week during the Session.
Senior lectures will commence on Friday, October
nth, and will be held on Tuesdays and Fridays
during the session.
MICHAELMAS TERM, 1946.
THE law term will commence on Thursday, loth
October.
LAND REGISTRY FEES ON
TRANSMISSIONS ON DEATH
As the result of suggestions made by the Council
following the decision of the Supreme Court in
re James Sheridan, a registered owner, the Minister
for Finance has agreed to refund in any case in which
a claim for such refund is lodged with the Registrar
of Titles and duly vouched, the fees paid on or after
20th June, 1945, in respect of transmissions on
death, i.e., within the six months prior to the date
of the decision of the Supreme Court. Claims should
be made by letter to the Registrar of Titles stating
(a)
Folio number and County,
(b)
date of lodgment
of fees in Registry, (<r)
the reference number
(if
readily available) of the dealing in which the fees
were paid,
(d)
amount of refund claimed,
(e)
name
and address of the solicitor who paid the fees.
The stamps lodged and cancelled in each case where
a refund is to be allowed will be certified for refund
by the Registrar of Titles and the certificate must
then be presented by the claimant to the Stamping
Office, Dublin Castle, where a draft will be issued
for the amount of the refund. As the examination
of certificates of the claims will involve considerable
work in the Land Registry some time may elapse
before the certificates are issued but claims, when
received, will be dealt with as quickly as possible.
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS BILL,
1946.
THIS Bill is entitled " An Act to make further and
better provision for promoting harmonious rela–
tions between workers and their employers and for
this purpose to establish machinery for regulating
rates of remuneration and conditions of employ–
ment and for the prevention and settlement of trade
disputes, and to provide for certain other matters
connected with the matters aforesaid." The scheme
of the Bill is to provide for setting up Industrial
Courts to deal with the relations between employers
and employees,
to
register agreements between
employers and employees with reference to terms
and conditions of employment, and to arbitrate in
trade disputes. The acceptance of the jurisdiction
of the Court will be voluntary and no employee
will be forced to resort to it against his will. The
Bill affects
the profession
in
several
respects,
principally in respect of the prohibition of the
representation of parties before
the Court by
solicitors or barristers, under Section 19 (iv) of the
Bill. This sub-section provides as follows :
" Rules
under this Section may provide for the cases in which
such persons may appear before
the Court by
Counsel or solicitor and except as so provided, no
person shall be entitled to appear by Counsel or
solicitor before the Court."
Section 10 which provides for the establishment
of the Court provides that it shall consist of a
Chairman and .a number of ordinary members.
The Chairman will be appointed by the Minister
but there is no provision under which any member
of the Court will have any legal qualifications. The
decision of the Court will be unappealable by virtue
of Section 16, and by virtue of Section 31 any ques–
tion arising in any proceedings (including pro–
ceedings in a Court of law) as to the interpretation
of a registered employment agreement or its applica–
tion to any particular person shall be referred to the
Industrial Court, whose decision shall be final.
A Committee of the Council considered
the
provisions of the Bill as' soon as it was available
and steps were immediately taken to seek an inter–
view with the Minister for Industry and Commerce
on the subject of the sections of the Bill referred to
above.
The Minister was requested to receive a
joint deputation from the General Council of the
Bar of Ireland and from the Society. It was pointed
out in correspondence that the provisions referred
to taken as a whole create an innovation which is
prejudicial to the legal profession and to the right
of any member of the public to legal representation
before the Courts. It was also pointed out that the
Council did not seek to obtain an exclusive right of
audience for barristers or solicitors before
the
Labour Court but that it was inequitable that the
Bill
should contain provision empowering
the
Court to make rules whereby barristers and solicitors
may be excluded altogether from
the right of
audience. The Minister in a letter in reply to the