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and is open to lawyers and advanced students.
There will be compulsory courses, in Legal
Method and in Constitutional Method. Optional
courses are available in Anti Trust Law, Copy
right, Criminal Process, Criminal Law, Civil Pro
cedure, Labour Law, Trusts—and Town Planning.
The tuition fee for the course is 150 Guilders,
approximately £17.10.0 Applicants will be required
to reside in Leyden. A few scholarships will be
provided.
Applications for Admssion and Scholarships
should
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sent before 31st March, 1970, to:
Professor T. Koopmans,
Executive Director,
" Gravensteen,"
Pieterskevkhof 6,
Leyden.
The Netherlands.
THE HIGH COURT
NOTICE re CASES
ON LIST
The Legal Diary is primarily intended for the
convenience of parties, solicitors and counsel. If
it is to serve this purpose adequately it is essential
that a Registrar should be informed
without delay
as to the course of a case appearing in the List—
whether there are negotiations for a settlement,
whether action or issue therein is withdrawn, and
estimated length of trial. Both solicitors and coun
sel should be responsible for this. Only in this way
will the published List serve the very useful pur
pose of indicating to all parties with some accuracy
when a hearing is likely. It would also be of
great assistance in the administration of the work
of this Court.
P. J. DUNPHY,
Registrar
January 1970.
NEWS
OF THE MONTH
The white bearded Mr. Eoin O'Mahony, K.M.,
Barrister-at-law, who died
suddenly on
14th
February last at the age of 65, was a unique
character who often challenged officialdom by the
weight of his personality. Well versed in family
genealogy, law and history, he would entertain his
listeners for hours with stones many droll and
unsavoury about families, great and small; he was
a gifted orator who would turn up suddenly from
distant parts to plead for unpopular causes. Mr.
Hubert Butler has written a well-deserved appre
ciation in the Irish Times of 21st February 1970.
Mr. John Webster, who practised as a lawyer
in Canada, supports the case for a separate Bar in
Ireland in the Irish Times of 20th February 1970,
but pleads that lawyers should call in consultants
to modernise their profession.
Mr. Justice Barra O'Briain, in Limerick Circuit
Court on 19th February said that the fees paid to
defending counsel as legal aid was " a mere modi
cum," compared with those paid to prosecuting
counsel, who had a less onerous task.
The editorial of the Law Guardian on " Secret
Justice" would appear to be very appropriate as
recently the Supreme Court ordered the exclusion
of all solicitors and counsel save those appearing
in the case of a matrimonial dispute where evid
ence was heard. It is understood that this is the
first time since the new courts were established in
1925 that an order prohibiting all lawyers from
attending a case at hearing was made. It is to be
hoped that a precedent has not been established
in favour of " Secret Justice."
CORRESPONDENCE
INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
Office of the Director General :
Sir Thomas Lund, C.B.E.
European Office :
14 Waterloo Place,
London, S.W.I,
England.
9th February 1970
Der Sir/Madam,
SECTION ON BUSINESS LAW
The Council of the International Bar Association are
considering plans to enlarge its activities by creating
supplementary organisations
to be called Sections, in
which IBA Patrons and Subscribers will have substantial
opportunity for individual activity and responsibility.
The proposals are that
1) Membership
in the Sections will be open to all
IBA Patrons and Subscribers who desire to par
ticipate ;
2) The Sections will have their own governing coun
cils and officers and their own committees ;
3) The Sections, it is hoped, will develop periodical
publications, in which the work product of com
mittees and members may appear and will, from
time to time, publish their membership directories
so that lawyers with similar interests around the
world will have a means of locating and communi-
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