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4.
Parliamentary Committee
—Senator J. J. Nash,
chairman, Francis A. Armstrong, Walter Beatty,
Bruce St. J. Blake, Thomas J Fitzpatrick, Gerald
Hickey, Thomas
Jackson, Patrick G. Moore,
Patrick O'Donnell, T.D.
5.
Privileges Committee—
Patrick
C. Moore,
chairman, John Carrigan, G. Y. Goldberg, Gerald
Hickey, Thomas Jackson, Eunan McCarron, Pat
rick Noonan,
John C. O'Carroll, Daniel
J.
O'Connor, Thomas E. O'Donnell, John O'Meara.
6.
Court Offices and Costs—
John Maher, chair
man, Joseph L. Dundon, James R. G. Green,
Christopher Hogan, Peter E. O'Connell, Rory
O'Connor, Norman Spendlove, R. McD. Taylor,
Bernard J. Carroll, T. V. O'Connor.
7.
Court of Examiners—
James W. O'Donovan,
chairman, Joseph Black, Desmond J. Collins,
Desmond Moran, Daniel J. O'Connor. The Pre
sident, vice-Presidents and immediate past Presi
dent ex-offico members of all Council committees
except Nos. 1 and 2.
8.
Disciplinary Committee—
James R. G. Green,
Eunan McCarron, George A. Nolan, Thomas
A. O'Reilly, Peter D. M. Prentice, Dermot
George G. Overend, Peter D. M. Prentice, Dermot
P. Shaw, Robert McD. Taylor, Ralph J. Walker,
REDUNDANCY PAYMENTS ACT 1967
Members should note that they are required to
stamp redundancy cards in respect of all em
ployees in employment which is insurable for all
benefits under the Social Welfare Acts 1952-66
except: —
(a)
Persons not normally expected to work for
the same employer for more than 21 hours
in a week.
(b)
Persons closely related to the employer :
The relationships include father and son,
grandfather and grandson, brother, etc.
but not uncle and nephew.
Employee as defined
in
the Act
includes an
apprentice and accordingly where there
is an
obligation to stamp Social Welfare Cards in res
pect of an apprentice there is also an obligation
to stamp redundancy cards. The obligation to
stamp Social Welfare cards
in
respect of an
apprentice arises where the apprentice is gainfully
employed :
in the case Benjamin v. The Minister
of Pensions and National Insurance 1960 2A.E.R.
581 reported in the Society's Gazette vol. 54, page
44 an apprentice who received no salary but was
remunerated by lump sum payments at irregular
intervals was held
to be gainfully employed
within the National Insurance Act 1946. As a
result of the Social Welfare (Employment of In
considerable Extent) Regulations 1953
(S.I. No.
290, 1953) employment for less than 18 hours in
a contribution week where the employed person
is not mainly dependent for his livelihood solely
on the remuneration received from such employ
ment is excluded from compulsory insurance.
The Redundency Payments Act provides
in
Section 7 sub-section 4 that the dismissal of an
apprentice within one month after the expiry of
an apprenticeship agreement shall not give rise to
rights to redundancy payment.
LAW LECTURES
The Society wrote
to
the various University
Colleges
in Dublin, Cork and Galway and to
Trinity College to enquire whether lectures on
criminal law and practice, the law of evidence and
commercial law are provided for solicitors appren
tices who wish to avail of them as occasional
students. The subjects are in most instances in
cluded in a degree course but for the non degree
students the position in the various colleges is as
follows : —
U.C.D.
Lectures in criminal law and the law of evidence
are provided with tutorials which may be taken by
students not proceeding to a degree for an addi
tional fee. The lectures on criminal law do not
include criminal practice and procedure. Com
mercial law is not taught in the law faculty except
insofar as is covered in the courses of property and
contract but
lectures
in
commercial
law are
provided in the faculty of commerce. Enquiries
are being made from the Dean of the Faculty of
Commerce as to the position regarding solicitors'
apprentices.
U.C.C.
Lectures on criminal
law and procedure are
provided which may be attended by solicitors'
apprentices on payment of the appropriate course
fee. It is stated that personal property courses
covers most of the commercial law subjects but
may .be treated more fully in the faculty of com
merce. Apprentices would be admitted to the lec
tures
in
the
faculty of commerce subject
to
availability of space and the adjustment of the
timetable. A number of the solicitors' apprentices
do so for the lectures on criminal law and pro
cedure.
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