The Gazette 1993

GAZETTE

Nature/Type of Report:

A medico-legal report should be

objective, the content should be

confined to relevant professional

matters and supply the information

required to facilitate the patient in

seeking his/her entitlements. In this

context, the doctor should not assume

the role of advocate either for or against

any person's position, regardless of

his/her inclinations. Subjective and

extraneous remarks are therefore

inappropriate in a medico-legal report.

A doctor who has previously examined

or treated a patient is obliged to provide

a medico-legal report in respect of the

examination or treatment or both when

requested to do so by the patient's

solicitor. However, a doctor is free to

decline to make a medico-legal

assessment of a condition for which

that doctor has not previously examined

or treated the patient.

Amount of Fee:

A practitioner is free to charge a fee for

a medico-legal report which is

reasonable and not excessive in relation

to the services performed.

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Correct ion

In the September 1993 (Vol. 87. No. 7)

issue of the Gazette an article was

published at page 273 entitled

The

Competition Act and EEC Block

Exemptions

in which the author, Denis

Cagney, was incorrectly described as a

solicitor. Mr. Cagney is in fact a

solicitor's apprentice with the firm of

Matheson Ormsby Prentice. The error

was an editorial one and we apologise

to all concerned.

Barbara Cahalane

Editor, Gazette

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Law School Professional Courses -

Dates and Avai labi l i ty

Solicitors intending to take an

apprentice are urged to note that the

earliest Professional Course now

available in Blackhall Place is that

commencing in January, 1995. In

consequence, the duration of in-office

attendance by any apprentice prior to

embarking on that Professional Course

will be considerable, and this should be

borne in mind when planning an

apprenticeship recruitment programme.

The dates for the remaining Professional

Courses in 1993 and in 1994 are:

34th Professional Course

26 October, 1993 - 24 February, 1994

35th Professional Course

21 March-29 July, 1994

36th Professional Course

August - 14 December, 1994

There may be some minor modification

of the commencement or termination

dates. These would be liable to variation

if there were to be any increase in the

time allocation for existing subjects or

an introduction of any new subjects or

due to the vagaries of examination

timetabling.

There are

students on each

Professional Course. At the time of

going to print all of the above

Professional Courses are completely

full.

The earliest that any eligible

applicant will be able to attend on the

Professional Course is in January,

1995.

Already as at 1 October, 1993,

twenty five places have been assigned

on this course.

Places on Professional Courses are

allocated on a

'first come first served

basis',

provided that the applicant is

exempt, or is entitled to apply to be

exempt, the Final Examination - First

Part, or has in fact passed that

examination,

and

further subject to the

applicants actually

having secured an

apprenticeship

and

having submitted to

the Society the completed application

for consent to become apprenticed

together with the necessary

accompanying documentation. In the

absence of any one condition of eligi-

bility, an allocation

will not be made.

It should be

noted

that failure to take up

a place on a particular Professional

Course by an apprentice does not

automatically ensure postponement to

the next available Professional Course,

and that in such circumstances it will be

the responsibility of the apprentice to

re-apply

for a place.

Following the successful completion of

an interview here in Blackhall Place, the

applicant to enter into Indentures of

Apprenticeship is given consent under

section 27 of the Solicitors Act, 1954.

Indentures must be executed by both

parties by not later than six months after

the date of consent. Once Indentures

have been executed the apprentice

must

have started work in the office, in

compliance with section 37 of the

Solicitors Act, 1954.

Applications to attend a Professional

Course, should be submitted in writing

to the undersigned:

Albert Power,

Assistant Director of Education,

Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,

Blackhall Place, DUBLIN 7

Tel. (01)6710711 Ext. 510

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