The Gazette 1975

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10. On application to attend the final examina-
tion—
Book-keeping Examination 5.00
11. On each subsequent application to attend
the final examination—
Second Law Examination, or any part
thereof 10.00
Third Law Examination, or any part
thereof 10.00
Book-keeping Examination, or any
part thereof 5.00
12. On each application to attend a course of
lectures of the Society other than lectures
on the rights, duties and responsibilities of
solicitors 15.00
Half course 7.50
13. On application for entry of a name on the
roll of solicitors 40.00
14. On application for permission to give late
notice of intention to attend any examina-
tion or course of lectures 5 00
(or such lesser fee as the Society may
accept in special circumstances).
Dated this 16th day of December, 1975.
Signed on behalf of the Incorporated Law Society
of Ireland,
PATRICK C. MOORE
President of The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
In pursuance of the provisions of section 82 of the
Solicitors Act, 1954 as amended by section 25(1) of
the Solicitors (Amendment) Act, 1960 I concur in the
making of the above regulations.
Signed, THOMAS A. FINLAY,
President of the High Court.
Retirement of Mr. Justice Budd
The Judiciary, Barristers, Solicitors, and Court
Officials assembled in the Supreme Court on Thursday,
18th December, 1975, at 12.30 p.m. to pay tribute to
Mr. Justice F. G. Budd who was retiring as a Judge
of the Supreme Court.
The Judges of the Supreme Court sat in their places,
while the Judges of the High Court stood behind them.
The Attorney General, Mr. Declan Costello, S.C., as
Leader of the Bar, then rose and said :
It is my privilege to speak to-day on behalf of all
the members of the Bar of Ireland on this occasion
when your Lordship is sitting for the last time before
retirement from the Supreme Court Bench. Whilst
sharing with all my colleagues at the Bar a deep sense
of regret that the passing years are bringing to a close
a brilliant career at the Bar and later on the Bench, I
nonetheless welcome the opportunity which to-day
affords to record publicly our profound appreciation
of your life's work in the law, our deep sense of grati-
tude which, as practitioners before your Lordship in
the High Court and later in the Supreme Court we all
share, our affection, our sincere wishes for serene days
in retirement
Your Lordship was called to the Bar in 1927, after
an outstanding academic career which resulted firstly
in the award of an Honours Degree in H'story and
Political Science by Trinity College, Dublin, and later,
the bestowal of the much prized Doctorate in Laws.
Within a short time your Lordship became the Leader
of the Leinster Bar, a Silk before the age of forty, a
Judge of the High Court in 1951, and your Lordship
has been a Judge of the Supreme Court since 1966. To
chronicle in this way the outstanding milestones of your
Lordship's legal career is but barely to hint at how the
journey was made and the qualities which you brought
to it. You Lordship's outstanding intellectual gifts
were, -of course, obvious. Allied to them, however, was
an immense and painstaking industry and attention to
detail which came, I believe, from a deep sense of duty
first, as a member of the Bar, to your clients, and later,
as a member of the Judiciary, to your high Office.
Added to these qualities were your Lordship's patience,
politeness and compassion. Thus after a brilliant career
at the Bar, Irish society has had for a quarter of a
century the benefit of a remarkable and outstanding
Judge who not only dispensed justice evenly and fairly
between opposing litigants, but by his wise and prudent
judgement on difficult and important legal problems
contributed to the orderly and humane development of
the laws of our State. The Law Reports have recorded
this unique contribution in an enduring and per-
manent form. Your Lordship has, however, left an-
other legacy which takes, perhaps, a more subtle form
but which is equally enduring. The high and exacting
standards of hard study and serious application which
you set yourself, the compassionate understanding which
you showed for the problems of litigants and witnesses
appearing before you have been an example to all
members of the legal profession By setting this example,
you have helped to maintain and strengthen traditions
for the proper administration of justice in this country
which are of immense importance for the preservation
of ihe rule of law in our society.
I have mentioned that I would wish to avail of this
occasion to express to your Lordship the thanks of all
the members of the Bar for the assistance you have
given to us all during your period on the Bench. "An
over-speaking Judge is no well-tuned cymbal" is a com-
ment which members of the Bar may, from time to
time, quote with particular feeling. The words follow-
ing this comment are worth briefly recalling here to-
day. "It is no grace to a Judge first, to find that which
he might have heard in due time from the Bar; or to
shew quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or
Counsel too short; or to prevent information by ques-
tions though pertinent". This advice given, it will be
recalled by a practising member of the Bar, was written
over three-and-a-half centuries ago. It could well have
been written by your Lordship. It was certainly prac-
tised by your Lordship. I know of no instance during
your Lordship's twenty-five years on the Bench when
a cross word passed between you and Counsel, between
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