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POSITION VACANT
The Council
invite
applications
from
Solicitors and Barristers for the position of
Lecturer in Conveyancing Law and Practice
and Land Law. Particulars of the appointment
may be obtained from the Secretary, Solicitors'
Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin 7.
(a)
If the certificate is issued within three years
from date of admission, £11 for a Dublin
solicitor and £8 for a country solicitor.
(b)
In any other case, £26 for a Dublin solicitor,
£23 for a country solicitor.
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
DECEMBER
I4TH,
1961 :
Mr. Walker and later
Mr. Overend in the chair, also present Messrs.
Desmond J. Collins, James R. C. Green, W. A.
Osborne, Desmond Moran, Peter D. M. Prentice,
Francis J. Lanigan, John R. Halpin, Niall S. Gaffney,
Dinnen B. Gilmore, Eunan McCarron, Robert McD.
Taylor,
John C. O'Carroll, Augustus Cullen,
Brendan T. Walsh, J. Bernard MacGarry, W. J.
Comerford, John Maher, Peter E. O'Connell, John
Carrigan, Thomas A. O'Reilly, D. J. O'Connor,
William A. Tormey, Patrick Noonan, Brendan A.
McGrath.
The following was among the business transacted :
Extraordinary members of the Council
Pursuant to the provisions of the Society's Charter
the Council appointed Messrs. John B. Jermyn,
Cornelius J. Daly, John F. Foley, Gerald Y.
Goldberg and John K. Coakley as extraordinary
members of the Council from the Council of the
Southern Law Association and Messrs. William J.
Jefferson, Denis K. McMillan, Brian Rankin,
Frederick H. Mullan and Charles MacLaughlin as
extraordinary members of the Council from the
Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern
Ireland.
International Bar Association
The Council appointed the President, Mr. George
G. Overend, as the Society's representative on the
Council of the International Bar Association in
place of Mr. John J. Nash who has resigned.
Assistant solicitors. Practising certificates
The Council, on a report from a committee, ruled
that a salaried assistant solicitor who does not
appear in court as an advocate, practise independently
or share in the profits of a firm does not require to
take out a practising certificate. If his name appears
on
the professional stationery of his
employer,
if he acts for private clients or appears in court as
an advocate for a client of his employer, or
participates in the profits, a certificate is necessary.
Special Examiner
The Council appointed Mr. Max W. Abrahamson
as special examiner in the first, second and third law
examinations in place of Mr. Daniel J. O'Connor
who has resigned. Mr. Abrahamson was admitted
in Michaelmas term, 1955, and practises at 40 Fitz-
william Place, Dublin.
Seanad Election
The meeting unanimously passed a vote of
congratulation to Senator Nash on his election to
Seanad Eireann and the Secretary was requested to
write to Mrs. Nash expressing the appreciation of
the Council for her valuable assistance to the new
senator in his election campaign.
Congratulations were also sent
to two other
members of the Society who have been elected to
Seanad Eireann. The new senators are Mr. John N.
Ross and Mr. Thomas J. Fitzpatrick. Senator Ross
was admitted in 1950 and practises at 20 Upper
Merrion Street, as a member of the firm of Matheson
Ormsby and Prentice. Senator Fitzpatrick was
admitted in 1939 and practises in Cavan.
Vacancy on the Council
A letter was read from Mr. Terence de Vere White
in which he expressed his desire to resign from the
Council. The Council accepted Mr. White's resigna
tion with regret and the Secretary was directed to
write to him expressing the thanks and appreciation
of the Council for his valuable services as an ordinary
member since 1954.
The President welcomed Mr. John O'Carroll, the
new provincial delegate from Ulster.
AUCTIONEERS AND HOUSE AGENTS
ACT, 1947
The attention of members has already been drawn
to the unsatisfactory situation which may arise
where a plaintiff suing on foot of an auctioneer's
bond is met with the defence that the auctioneer did
not hold a licence at the time of receiving the money
due to the plaintiff.
(See GAZETTE, April 1961.)
This may be a good defence, and members were
advised to ascertain that an auctioneer's licence was
in force at the material date before instituting such
proceedings. Since then a member has written to
point out that the Revenue Commissioners would
not supply any information as to whether or not
a particular auctioneer held a licence and there was
no register available for inspection. Consequently,
it would not be possible to be certain before going
into Court that this defence could not be raised.