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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