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THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY
OF
President
EUNAN
McCARRON
IRELAND
Vice-Presidents
JAMES R. C. GREEN
JAMES W. O'DONOVAN
Secretary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
Assistant Secretary
JOSEPH G. FINNEGAN
CONTENTS
Admission Ceremony ..........
A Critical Appraisal of the Prices and
Incomes Board's Report on Solicitors'
Remuneration
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Planning Permission ...........................
Federation of Professional Associations
Completion of Sale and Purchase .........
International Hummer Courses of Legal
Aspects on European Integration
1969
Solicitors Act,
1954
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Cases of the Month .................
Land Registry—Squatter's Title
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Vol. 63
No. 2
June
1969
ADMISSION CEREMONY
Thirty-seven newly qualified solicitors were pre
sented with their parchments by the President, Mr.
Eunan McCarron, at Solicitors Buildings, on
Thursday, 5th June 1969. The President, addressing
the newly qualified solicitors and their friends,
said :
Ladies and gentlemen, This must be a memor
able day for you young men and women admitted
to the roll of solicitors and a happy day for the
parents and friends. It is also an occasion of great
pleasure for me as President of the Incorporated
Law Society of Ireland and for my friends on the
Council here present to welcome my new col
leagues into the fold.
We have heard much adverse comment on the
system of education of apprentices and the Council
have been keenly aware of the necessity for change.
A bill has now been drafted and will we hope when
enacted transfer to the Society the power to make
all appropriate regulations subject to judicial con
trol instead of being rigidly bound by statute as
heretofore. However, despite the shortcomings of
the existing system it has in fact produced remark
ably good results. I have always been most im
pressed by the calibre and efficiency of the vast
majority of our students following admission. Such
gaps as there may have been in their general
knowledge of the law were more than filled by the
possession of a high degree of integrity. A solicitor's
word is his bond and because this has always been
appreciated by young solicitors the general stan
dard of conduct of the members of our profession
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