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and
the Findlater Scholarships await
the final
approval of the Council and will then be submitted
to the Commissioners of Charitable Donations and
Bequests.
SOLICITORS ACCOUNTS
REGULATIONS, 1956.
BY the Solicitors Accounts Regulations, 1956, made
by the Council with the concurrence of the Chief
Justice it was provided that the Solicitors' Accounts
Regulations, 1955 (S.I. No. 218 of 1955) shall come
into operation on the ist day of January, 1958, or
on such later date as may be appointed by the
Council with the concurrence of the Chief Justice.
APPRENTICESHIP AND
EDUCATION.
THE Council have made regulations which came
into operation on December 6th, whereby Regu
lation 21 of the Solicitors Act, 1954 (Apprenticeship
and Education) Regulations, 1955
(S.I. No. 217
of 1955) was revoked and following regulation
substituted therefor :—
21.—(i) Before attending the first law examination
an apprentice shall produce to the Society a certificate
of having attended a year's course of lectures
approved by the Society at Dublin University or
one of the constituent colleges of the National
University of Ireland in the law of real and personal
property the law of contract and the law of tort and
that he has obtained credit for attendance at such
lectures and passed the university examinations.
(2) Before attending the second law examina
tion an apprentice shall produce to the Society a
certificate of having attended a year's course of
lectures approved by the Society in the subject of
equity at Dublin University or one of the con
stituent colleges of the National University of
Ireland and that he has obtained credit for attendance
at
such
lectures
and
passed
the
university
examinations.
(3) An apprentice who is entitled pursuant
to regulation 33 of these regulations to attend the
final examination held under the provisions of the
regulations of the Council dated loth June, 1948,
as amended shall on entering for the said examination
produce to the Society a certificate of having
attended and obtained credit for the lectures and
examinations mentioned in paragraphs (i) and (2) of
this regulation.
(4) For the purpose of paragraph 3 of the
second Schedule to the Solicitors Act, 1954, an
apprentice shall produce to the Society certificates
of having attended and obtained credit for lectures
in any legal subjects at Dublin University or one of
the constituent colleges of the National University
of Ireland for two separate collegiate years and of
having passed the university examinations and such
lectures and examinations are hereby prescribed.
(5) Paragraph (4) of this regulation shall
not apply so as to exempt any apprentice from the
provisions of paragraphs
(i) and
(2) of this
regulation.
COUNTY KERRY LAW SOCIETY.
AT the Annual General Meeting of the Society, the
following officers and Committee were elected for
the year 1957:
President, Gerald Baily; Vice-
President, Thomas O'Neill;
Chairman, C.
J.
Downing; Secretary and Treasurer, J. J. Grace;
Committee :
J. C. Guihan, M. L. O'Connell, D. E.
Browne, J. S. O'Reilly, D. F. O'Shea, H. J. Downing
and W. A. Crowley.
MAYO SOLICITORS BAR
ASSOCIATION.
THE following are the President and Officers for the
year 1956-57.
President, Patrick J. Mulligan;
Vice-President, Edmund A. Corr ; Hon. Treasurer,
Bridget M. Hynes;
Hon. Secretary, William
Dillon-Leetch ;
Council:
Patrick J. Brennan,
Laurence Gill, Thomas D. Kelly, Michael Moran
and Patrick U. Murphy.
COUNTY ROSCOMMON BAR
ASSOCIATION.
AT the Annual Meeting of the Association the
following officers and Committee were elected:
President, P. J. Neilan ; Chairman, J. Kelly; Vice-
Chairman, F. X. Burke ; Secretary, Oliver Macklin;
Treasurer, J. J. Sheerin ; Committee :
D. Carlos,
T. O'Keeffe, T. Callan and M. D. O'Connor.
COUNTY AND CITY OF LIMERICK
SESSIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION.
MR. BRIAN GEARY of Bedford Row, Limerick,
has been appointed Hon. Secretary.
COUNTY KILDARE BAR
ASSOCIATION.
MR. JOHN J. DUNNE of Kildare has been elected
President for the year and Mr. Brian Price of Naas
has been elected Hon. Secretary.
DUBLIN SOLICITORS BAR
ASSOCIATION.
A MEETING of the Council of the Association was
held on Wednesday, the 9th of January, 1957. All
members who have not yet done so are urged to
join the Solicitors Benevolent Association.
A
draft scale of costs for proceedings under the