The Gazette 1955-58

Vol. 49

No. 3

July,

1955

THE GAZETTE

of the

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

PretiScitt

THOMAS A. O'REILLY

Vict-Presidtnts

DESMOND J. MAYNB

JOHN J. SHBIL

Secretary

ERIC A. PMJNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.

JUNE 30TH :

The President in the Chair.

Also

present, Messrs. Desmond J. Mayne and John J.

Sheil, Vice-Presidents, Henry St. J. Blake, James J.

O'Connor, Desmond J. Collins, Joseph Barrett,

Scan O hUadhaigh, Peter E. O'Connell, John

Mahei, Nathaniel Lacy, Reginald J. Nolan, William

J. Norman, John R. Halpin, Patrick F. O'Reilly,

Patrick R. Boyd, Cornelius J. Daly, Ralph

Walker, George A. Nolan, George G. Overend,

Francis J. Lanigan, Francis Gallagher, John J. Nash,

Terence de Vere White, Niall S. Gaffney, John

Carrigan.

The following was among the business transacted :

Solicitors practising without certificates.

THE Secretary was directed to send a copy of the

statutory list of practising solicitors to each County

Registrar and District Court Clerk, to the Taxing

Masters and to the Secretary of each local Bar

Association and to request that particulars of any

case in which a solicitor practises without a certificate

shall be submitted to the Council so

that the

institution of proceedings in the name of the Society

may be considered.

Society's Final Examination. Parts I and II.

IT was resolved that from the autumn final examina–

tion 1955 inclusive an apprentice shall be entitled

to take papers i, 2 and 3 as Part I of the examination

and papers 4, 5 and 6 as Part II of the examination

and that an apprentice who satisfies the examiners

in either Part shall be exempt from further examina–

tion in that part. The resolution will not alter the

present regulations for the award of the Overend

and Findlater Scholarships ; competition for these

will be confined to candidates taking the two parts

together. The first entry fee will cover one attempt

at each part and renewal fees will be payable for

each subsequent attempt in respect of one or two

parts.

Continuation

practices

of deceased

solicitors.

THREE applications under section 61 of the Solicitors

Act, 1954, for permission to carry on the practice

of a deceased solicitor on behalf of the persona

representatives were considered and granted.