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Vol. 4(3
No. 5
November,
1946
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President:
DANIEL O'CONNELL.
Vice-"Presidents :
MATTHEW G. R. LARDNER.
ROGER GREENE.
Secretary :
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
October 3rd
THE President in the Chair :
Also present: Messrs-
J. R. Quirke, J. J. Bolger, J. J. Lynch, J. P. Tyrrell,
W. J. Norman, H. St. J. Blake, J. P. Carrigan,
J. B. Hamill, A. Cox, P. O'Connor, P. R. Boyd,
J. T. Wolfe, W. S. Hayes, J. Barrett, W. L. Duggan,
W. S. Huggard, J. J. Smyth.
The following was among the business transacted:
International Bar Association
THE Council considered a report from a Committee
on an invitation received from the American Bar
Association to the Society to send a representative
to a meeting to be held in New York to discuss the
formation of an International Bar Association.
The proposed objects of the Association are to
establish and maintain friendly relations among the
lawyers of the world ;
to advance th e science of
jurisprudence and the study of comparative law;
to promote uniformity of legislation in certain fields
of law ;
to further the diffusion of knowledge of the
legal systems of the various countries of the world ;
to contribute to the establishment of law and the
administration of justice under law among
the
nations of the world ;
to give support, specifically
in the field of law to the principles and aims of the
United Nations Organization;
to
establish
a
meeting ground for those who practise or may
practise before the International Court of Justice.
The Secretary reported that he had been in com–
munication with the Department of External Affairs
about the matter. The Council directed that a letter
should be written to the American Bar Association
stating that the Council welcomes in principle the
proposal to extablish an International Bar Associa–
tion and will be pleased to receive further infor–
mation on the subject.'
Proposed Amendment in Trustee Law
THE Secretary read a letter from the Department of
Justice asking that the Council should set up a
special Committee
to make suggestions
to
the
Department on the following matters: (i) the
proposed consolidation of the legislative provisions
now in force dealing with the range of investments