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to the assistance of their colleagues in Czechos
lovakia. In many instances the Austrian lawyers
hafl provided food and clothing to the refugees.
In some cases
they obtained employment,
for
those lawyers who had fled Czechoslovakia at the
time of
the invasion. "It is hoped", said Mr.
McBride, "to set up an emergency fund in the
near future to assist
those
lawyers, who have
had to leave Czechoslovakia and others in similar
plight in
the future, and a contribution com
mensurate \vith out traditional charity will be
expected from Ireland".
Chairman, Prof. R. O'Hanlon, S.C.; Vice-
Chairman, M. Russell, B.L.; Treasurer. Mr. C.
Mac An Aili, Solicitor; Secretary, T. C. Smyth,
B.L..
Committee, Messrs. B. A. McGrath, Solr., C.
Gavan-Duffy, Solr.,
P. C. Moore, Solr., H.
O'Flaherty, B.L., D. McCarthy, B.L., B. Dempsey,
B.L., D. Barrington, S.C.
The programme for 1969 is in preparation. Any
person, whether a member of the Association or
otherwise, who may wish any particular topic to
be discussed or form the subject of a lecture or
a report should notify the Secretary. The address
of the Secretary is the Law Library, Four Courts,
Dublin 7.
COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITABLE
DONATIONS & BEQUESTS
BOARD MEETINGS
Hilary Term—1969
Tuesday, 14th January, 1969.
Tuesday, 28th January, 1969.
Tuesday, llth February, 1969.
Tuesday, 25th February, 1969.
Tuesday, llth March,'1969.
Tuesday, 25th March, 1969.
SOLICITORS' GOLFING SOCIETY
Year 1969
Officers:
President,
Eunan
McCarron
(Piesident—
I.L.S.I.); Captain, John G. Bolger, Portlaoise;
Secretary, Henry N. Robinson, 94 Merrion Square,
Dublin; Treasurer, David Bell,
13 Bachelor's
Walk, Dublin, 1.
Competitions:
Thursday, 29th May, 1969 :
President's Prize
at Milltown Golf Club, Dublin.
Saturday, 27th September,
1969 :
Captain's
Prize at Carlow.
COMPANY FORMATION SERVICE
The Society's company formation service has now
been in operation for three months and about 120
companies have been formed or are in course of
formation on the instruction of members of the
Society. The work is done on the instructions and
in
the name of our members but the Society
supplies precedents of object clauses from the
Society's library which can be altered or adapted
by members to meet the requirements of their
clients. The professional work in settling the object
clause and finally approving the draft memor
andum and articles is done by the members. All
other routine services are carried out by
the
Society by solicitors on the Society's staff.
Irish Formations Ltd. have recently issued a
circular
to
solicitors offering
to
reduce
their
charges. This company commenced operation in
January 1968 and on that occasion a statement
appeared in
Business & Finance
under the title
"Cut Price" Companies in the course of which
Mr.
Nolan,
a
director
of
the
company
raised
against
company
registration
agencies
was
reported
as
saying
that
objections
in
Ireland were presumably
based
on
Sec
tion 58 of
the Solicitors Act
1954. Section
58 of the Act provides that no person other than
a practising solicitor or barrister and certain other
exempted persons may draw up or prepare a
document relating to real or personal estate or
any legal proceeding for fee or reward. Section
397 of the Companies Act 1963 provides that a
person qualified for appointment as auditor of a
limited company may draw or prepare any docu
ment for the purposes of that Act other than a
memorandum or articles of association of a limi
ted company thereby re-enacting the restrictions
against unqualified persons as regards (he memor
andum and articles of association. In the press
conference reported in
Business and Finance
Irish
Formations Ltd. are reported as having said that
they had not as yet formed a company for a
member of the general public but saw no logical
objection to their doing so. The statement con
tinued that Irish Formations wouls supply
the
standard wording and that the remaining portion
of the documents which are variable would be
drafted by
their clients
if necessary with
the
assistance of precedents supplied by Irish Forma
tions of which they had a good and increasing
store taken from documents of other similar com
panies. Irish Formations subsequently offered to
confine their services to the solicitors profession
but the Council did not take them up on that
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