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COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITABLE
DONATIONS & BEQUESTS
Board Meetings
Michaelmas Term—1968
Tuesday, 22nd October
Tuesday, 5th November
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Tuesday, 19th November
Tuesday, 3rd December
Tuesday, 17th December
MASTERS AND APPRENTICES
In the May 1966 issue of the Society's
Gazette
the Society requested those members who were
(a) willing to accept apprentices
(b) who re
quired assistant solicitors or
(c) who
required
employment either as assistants or with a view
to prospective partnerships to place their names
on a Register that would be maintained by the
Society for this purpose. The response
to
the
Society's invitation was nil.
The Society in recent months has received a
large number of enquires from intending appren
tices seeking the names of solicitors who would be
willing to act as their masters. In Dublin the pro
blem is particularly marked and with a view to
facilitating both masters and apprentices
the
Society is anxious to be of assistance and would
maintain a Register in the form indicated. The
lists are required for reference only not recom
mendation.
COUNTY OF TIPPERARY AND OFFALY
(Birr Division) SESSIONAL BAR
ASSOCIATION
At the Annual General Meeting of the Associa
tion held on the 14th June, 1968 the following
Officers and Committee were elected :—
President, Miss Joan Kelly, Tipperary; Hono
rary Secretary, John Carrigan, Thurles; Hono
rary Treasurer, Martin T. Butler, Thurles.
Committee, John C. Reedy, Michael O'Meara,
Patrick F. Treacy, John C. Devitt, A. I. Cunning-
ham, John J. Nash, Donal G. Binchy, Francis
Murphy, Thomas J. Reilly, Kieran T. Flynn,
Robert A. Frewen, Patrick J. McCormack, Edgar
J. Ryan.
BRANCH OFFICES
should be exercised by solicitors over their branch
offices. Recently
some
complaints have been
received from members of the public in which
clerks and other unqualified persons have been
referred to as in fact being remiss in the execution
of clients' business. The conclusion to be derived
from
these
complaints
is
that
in many
cases
throughout
the country
the
supervision
exercised by members in their branch offices is
not
in accordance with
the opinions of
the
Council as expressed in the Handbook and the
Gazette. The Secretaries of local Bar Associations
are requested to communicate with the Society if
in fact there is any breach of the ruling of the
Society in this regard. The ruling of the Society
was expressed as following :—
The general principle
is
that it
is not in
accordance with proper professional practice
that a solicitor's office should be managed by
an unqualified assistant without supervision.
While the adequacy of the supervision must
depend upon the facts of particular cases the
Council are of the opinion that, generally
speaking, a branch office which is open daily
should be managed by a qualified assistant
in the absence of the principal.
INCOME TAX APPEALS
At the instigation of the Minister for Finance a
meeting took place in Dublin Castle on Septem
ber 16th between representatives of the Depart
ment of Finance, the Revenue Commissioners, the
Institute
of Chartered Accountants
and
the
Society (represented by Desmond J. Moran and
Alexis Fitzgerald).
The following alterations have now been pro
posed in relation to Income Tax Appeals : —
1. The jury room to be used as a waiting room
for appellants, their representatives and that
the Inspectors of Taxes not concerned with
appeals actually in progress.
2. Appeals to be listed for rehearing in the order
of tax districts to reduce the necessity for the
presence of a number of Inspectors at the same
time.
3. Only Inspectors of the tax district in question
to be present at the hearing of appeals and the
number of such Inspectors to be limited, if
possible, to not more than three.
In relation to quantitative appeals which are
large in number and in which it is only
a
question
The Society's
Gazette
in July, 1956 contained the
of the Judge ruling on figures it has been decided
views of
the Council on
the supervision
that
that the listing of these appeals will be staggered
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