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INTERNATIONAL LABOUR
OFFICE APPOINTMENT
A
pplications
are invited for a post of Member
of
Section in the Legal Division of the International
Labour Office in Geneva. The successful applicant
may be required to reside in Geneva or at any other
place abroad. The work is of a legal nature and
the following are the qualifications required:—
(1) Nationality:
Canada, Ireland, United
Kingdom, U.S.A.
(2) Age : Not less than 23 nor more than 35
years.
(3) A University degree, or the equivalent in
professional experience.
(4) Good general legal training; knowledge
o f international law and constitutional
law.
(5) Languages:
English and a working
knowledge o f French. Spanish will be
a useful additional qualification.
Salary range
: 4,410 to 7,850 American dollars,
with possible promotion to a scale o f 7,850 to
9,700 dollars free of Swiss Income Tax. Any
member interested may obtain further particulars
from the Secretary.
CALENDAR AND
LAW DIRECTORY, 195 1
A
ny
member requiring a copy o f the Calendar, who
has not already ordered one, should do so immediate
ly, as the proofs are in the printers’ hands. The
numbers printed are based on orders received. Price
7/6., postage free
S/id.
Remittance with order.
PUBLIC STATUTES OF THE
OIREACHTAS, 1950
1. Customs (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1945 (Continuance).
2. Defence Forces (Temporary Provisions).
3. Pensions (Increase).
4. Air Navigation and Transport.
5. Minerals Company (Amendment).
6. Irish Whiskey.
7. Local Government (Remission of Rates).
8. Central Fund.
9. Flax Act, 1936 (Suspension Act, 1950).
10. Exported Live Stock (Insurance).
11. Imposition of Duties (Confirmation of Order).
12. Transport.
13. Local Loans Fund (Amendment).
14. Social Welfare.
15. Erne Drainage and Development.
16. Land.
17. Imposition of Duties (Confirmation of Orders) (No. 2).
18. Finance.
19. Trade Union.
20. Appropriation.
21. Agricultural Workers (Holidays).
22. Rates on Agricultural Land (Relief).
23. Turf Development.
24. Limerick City Management.
25. Housing (Amendment).
26. Local Government (Repeal of Enactments).
27. Nurses.
28. Rent Restrictions (Continuance and Amendment).
29. Industrial Development Public Authority.
30. MacSwiney (Pensions).
31. Expiring Laws.
32. Coinage.
33. Vocational Education (Amendment).
34. Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions) Act, 1946
(Continuance and Amendment).
PRIVATE ACT (NO. 1 OF 1950)
L
ocal
Government Provisional Orders Confirma
tion Act, 1950 (relating to i. City o f Limerick
Extension of Boundaries Order and 2. Bray Urban
District Council Financial Relations Provisional
Order).
SOLICITORS’ BENEVOLENT
ASSOCIATION
T
he
injustice of an annuity granted by
a
charitable
body being treated as means for the purpose o f the
Old Age Pensions Acts, was referred to by Mr.
R. A . O’Brien, chairman, at the 87th annual meeting
o f the Solicitors’ Benevolent Association, at the
Four Courts, Dublin, on 26th January, 1951.
Mr. O’Brien, who moved the adoption o f the
annual report, said that recently a solicitor’s widow,
o f over 70 years o f age, was elected to an annuity
o f £52 10s. As a result, under the law as it stood
at present, she forfeited her old age pension, with
the consequence that the State benefited to the
extent o f 17s. <5d. a week at the expense of the
association.
“ Charitable bodies like ours grant annuities after
a most careful scrutiny o f applicants’ circumstances,”
declared Mr. O’Brien, “ and it is not merely a
hardship, but an injustice, that such pensions should
be taken into account in the calculations o f means
under the Old Age Pensions Acts. A ll charitable
bodies similar to the association should press for
the necessary relief in connection with any Govern
ment social security scheme.”
Mr. O’Brien said that they were sometimes asked :
“ Why should there be a Solicitors’ Benevolent
Association ?
Are not solicitors a prosperous
body ? ” In times gone by, when legal charges
were relatively high and the profession was not
grossly over-crowded, there may have been some
truth in the idea of professional opulence. The
times had changed, and the lot of many solicitors
to-day was, financially, not a happy one. Five
years’ apprenticeship, costing some
£
2,000 for
maintenance and education ; the passing o f stiff
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