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her 1967 elected the following Officers and Coun
cil members :—
President :
Edward H. Byrne.
Vice President:
Victor D. Wolfe.
Honorary Secretary :
Miss T. King.
Honorary Treasurer :
E. Rory O'Gonnor.
Honorary Auditors :
P. Glynn and E. Crowley.
Council Members :
Messrs. G. A. Williams, R.
Knight,
G. M. Doyle, M.
Kenny, A. O. hUadhaigh, G.
A. Henderson, P. Golden, D.
R. Pigot and J. P. A. Hooper.
LAW CLERKS JOINT
LABOUR COMMITTEE
The Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee was set
up under part IV of the Industrial Relations Act,
1946, covering law clerks and certain other wor
kers employed in solicitors' offices. The Committee
is a statutory body which provides machinery for
the fixing of minimum rates of wages and the
regulation of conditions of employment for these
workers.
Arising from the enforcement of
the statute
regulations the Society have been informed by the
Department of Labour that in 1965 sixty-two
firms were found to be underpaying a
total of
eighty employees while in 1966 a total of eighty-
seven employees were being underpaid by sixty
firms.
SOLICITORS BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION
Several Solicitors' widows are living on pensions
of £2 12 6 per week. 940 Solicitors from the
Republic and Northern Ireland have paid their
subscriptions of £2 2 0 per annum.
Reminders have long since been sent and the
financial year ends on 30th November, 1967.
Please help
now
by sending your subscription to
the Secretary, 9, Upper Mount Street, Dublin, 2.
MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY OF IRELAND
The Society's next meeting will be held on Thurs
day, 30th November, 1967 at the Royal Hibernian
Hotel, Dawson Street, at 8 p.m. The lecture will
be entitled "The Doctors Role in Modern Indus
trial Litigation" and will be given by Mr. F.
Hanna, solicitor Nothern Ireland.
CERTIFIED GRANTS OF PROBATE
Members please note that time taken for certified
grants of probate to be issued can be considerably
reduced if when application is made for an ori
ginal grant a certified copy is then bespoken.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
Members please note
that
the Acts
of
the
Oireachtas 1965 (bound) are now available from
the Government Publications Sales Office, price
25/-, postage 2/6 extra.
The Succession Act, 1955 (Form of Adminis
tration Bond) (No. 2) Rules 1967 are now avail
able
from
the Government Publications Sales
Office, price I/-, postage 3d. extra.
The catalogue number of the. Volume of Statu
tes
is P/l/45 and of the Statutory Instrument
18/67.
FEDERATION OF PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS
The Federation of Professional Associations,
to
which the Law Society is affiliated, is just four
teen months old. One of its objects is "To promote
and advance
the contribution of professional
organisations to the welfare of the community".
On the 4th December next at 8.00 p.m. in the
Hibernian Hotel, Dublin, the Federation is hold
ing a meeting that should be of considerable
interest to all members concerned with the welfare
of the profession and of the service they render to
the community. In a recent communication from
the Federation, the President Mr. Brendan A.
McGrath, Solicitor to C.I.E. stated as follows :—-
"Unhappily, as we all know
the professions
have recently come under attack, and have been
publicly criticised for
their so-called
restrictive
practices and lack of positive participation in the
development of the economic
life of the com
munity. Conformity to the principles of intellec
tual and scientific truth and ethical conduct have
ever been the pride and objective of professional
occupations. Their primary orientation has hither
to been, and should always remain, one of com
munity service. There is a danger, however, that
if the prevailing tendency to depress professional
status were to take hold to any significant degree,
professional competence would become subordina
ted to competitive pricing thus eroding the value
of the professions not only to (he professional but
also to the society he serves.
"It is the view of the Council of the Federation
that this
is a time both for self-criticism and
greater involvement in the wider issues shaping
the development of the community at large. The
professions have evolved in response to the essen
tial needs of society, but they must also meet the
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