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G. J. Hand, Esq.,
Dean of the Faculty of Law,
University College, Dublin 2.
Dear Mr. Hand—I am directed to refer to the
notice received by the Society on October 7 relat
ing to the partial move of the Faculty of Law to
Belfield. The Society has already been in com
munication with University College pointing out
that it would be impossible for solicitors' appren
tices who attend the Society's law lectures here to
attend lectures at Belfield during the same year
and they asked the college authorities not to trans
fer the Faculty of Law to Belfield in order to avoid
this inconvenience. They have asked me to discuss
this matter with you and I would like to do this
at the earliest possible moment.
Yours sincerely,
Eric A. Plunkett,
Secretary.
19 October 1970.
The Secretary,
Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
Dear Mr. Plunkett—I am writing to confirm
my comments on the telephone to you this after
noon on the query raised in your letter of October
19.
The only lectures delivered by members of the
Faculty of Law which will be given in Belfield in
this session are Legal System and Legal and
Constitutional History for the First B.C.L. year
and for the King's Inns non-university first year
course.
Consequently, no solicitors' apprentices will be
in the position of having to attend lectures con
currently at the Incorporated Law Society and at
Belfield unless :
(1) He has proceeded to an advanced stage with
the solicitors' apprentices course before beginning
his degree course—a very unlikely situation.
(2) He is reading for an arts degree.
(3) He chooses
the optional subject Politics
instead of Comparative Law in his Third B.C.L.
course.
I think the first condition can be disregarded.
Students
in
the other two categories must be
regarded as having made a decision to their own
inconvenience. I am sure that the Society will
recognise that the college could not possibly re
quest the Faculty of Arts to provide special lectures
for law students who wished to take an arts degree.
With regard to the general matter of transfer
to Belfield there could, of course, be no question
of anything but the fullest consultation and I
hope that an opportunity for this will present
itself during the coming session. Pending the clari
fication of U.C.D./T.C.D. relations it is possible
that a solution might be found in yery careful
time-tabling as between our courses but I do not
know when the library here will be available in
sufficient strength to allow us to move the major
part of the law school from Earlsfort Terrace.
Yours sincerely,
G. J. Hand,
Dean of the Faculty of Law.
20 October 1970.
(Office of the Minister for Justice)
(Dublin)
16 November, 1970
Eunan McCarron, Esq.,
Solicitor,
9 Upper Mount Street,
Dublin 2.
Dear Sir—I am directed by the Minister for
Justice, Mr. D. O'Malley, T.D., to refer to your
letter of the 7th September regarding the sugges
tion that releases of mortgages generally should
be brought into line with building society vacates.
An outline of a provision which would give
legislative effect to this proposal has been pre
pared and has been sent to the Revenue Com
missioners
for
their observations;
the Revenue
Commissioners are, of course, concerned because
changes in liability to stamp duties may be in
volved.
As to the enactment of the necessary legislation,
the Minister is contemplating the inclusion of a
provision on the lines suggested in the proposed
Registry of Deeds Bill, which is the only measure
in the Minister's present legislative programme
that could suitably carry
it.
It will be some
months yet before the Minister will be in a posi
tion to ask for leave to introduce this Bill.
Yours faithfully,
C. S. McCarthy,
Private Secretary to Minister.
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