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THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY
OF
IRELAND
Vice-Presidents:
BRENDAN A. MCGRATH
THOMAS V. O'CONNOR
President:
JAMES R. C. GREEN
Secretary:
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
Editor:
COLUM GAVAN DUFFY
Assistant Secretaries:
JOSEPH FINNEGAN
MARTIN P. HEALY
CONTENTS
Meetings of the Council ..................
4V
Time Costing .................................
49
Miscellaneous Legal News, (a) Protest
Hulls Court, (b) Judge Defends
Suspects Right, (c) Fraud Beyond
Most Juries, (d) Murder Trial Shock
—Jury Discharged ........................
53
Current Law Digest Including Irish
Cases ..........................................
55
Alleged Rioting ..............................
63
Solicitors Apprentices Debating Society
—Committee and Prizes ..................
65
Irish and Book-Keeping Examination
Results
....................................... 65
Land Act
1965 —
Permission not
required to buy property in Non-
Municipal towns ........................... 65
In Parliament .................................
66
Circuit Court Rules
1970 —
Summary
66
Transport and Agricultural Law of the
European Community
..................... 67
Interest on Damages ........................
68
Book Review
................................. 69
Communications Centre .....................
69
Voluntary Bar Free Legii. Aid Panel
69
First Legal Advice Centre Opened for
Poor
.......................................... 69
Lawyer Exchange Programme ............
70
Visits by Lawyers to Council of Europe
70
Land Registry Notice — The Register
70
47
Opinions and comments in contributed
articles and reviews in the
Gnzette
are not
published as the views of the Council unless
expressly so described.
MEETINGS
OF
THE COUNCIL
July 16th
The President in the chair; also present Messrs. T. V.
O'Connor, Augustus Cullen, Rory O'Connor, George A.
Nolan, Robert McD. Taylor, Desmond Moran, Peter
D. M. Prentice, Ralph J. Walker, Christopher Hogan,
Bruce St. J. Blake, John Maher, Eunan McCarron,
Brendan A. McGrath, John Carrigan, Francis J. Lani-
gan, James W. O'Donovan, Patrick Noonan, Walter
Beatty, Gerald Hickey, Patrick F. O'Donnell, Mrs. Moya
Quinlan,. Gerard M. Doyle, Norman Spendlove, Thomas
Jackson and William A. Osborne.
The following was among the business transacted:
Criminal Legal Aid Scheme
The following motion of which notice had been given
was moved and seconded :
That the Council of the Society in view of the
present impasse in the operation of legal aid in this
country recommend :
1. That members remove their names from the
panel until satisfactory arrangements have been
made with the Minister for Justice for its further
operation.
2. That members who have already accepted cases
to date should proceed with same to finality.