The Gazette 1955-58

THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY

OF NORTHERN IRELAND.

THE President of the Society for the year 1957-58

is Mr. Leonard I. Fox.

The Vice-Presidents are Mr. Thomas Q. King,

Mayfair, Arthur Square, Belfast, and James J.

Napier, Esq., 19 Chichester Street, Belfast.

The five extraordinary members of the Council

of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland are

Messes. L. I. G. Fox, Thomas Q. King, James J.

Napier, Charles MacLaughlin, James C. Taylor.

THE SOUTHERN LAW ASSOCIATION.

AT the Annual General Meeting of the Association

in Cork on I5th November, 1957, the following

officers were elected for the year 1957-58 :

President, Mr: James W. O'Donovan;

Vice-

President, Bryan J. Murphy; Hon. Treasurer,

Gerald J. Moloney; Hon. Secretary, James D.

Donegan.

The

following members were appointed

represent the Association as extraordinary members

of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of

Ireland :

Messrs. James \V. O'Donovan, Bryan J.

Murphy, Edmund Hayes, J. B. Jermyn and P. J.

Kavanagh.

THE SOCIETY'S DINNER-DANCE.

A SUCCESSFUL Dinner-Dance was held on zist

November, 1957, in the Shelbourne Hotel, Dublin.

There was an attendance of approximately 320

members and

friends.

PRESENTATION OF CERTIFICATES

OF ADMISSION.

ON 2ist November the President at a ceremony

in the Solicitors' Library presented certificates of

admission to the following solicitors :

Julia M. Conroy, 4 St: Francis Street, Galway ;

Laurence B. Cullen, Wentworth Place, Wicklow,

(3rd

place, April Final, Silver Medal);

John

McKnight, B.A., LL.B., Dublin Road, Newry,

Co. Down; Patrick Collins Powell, Woodfield,

Shanakiel, Co Cork ; Scan Cormac Rynne, " China,"

Anglesea Avenue, Blackrock, Do. Dublin ; Andrew

F. Smyth, 95 Kincora Road, Clontarf, Dublin;

Thomas A. Twomey, B.A., " Newtown House,"

Maynooth, Co. Kildare.

INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION.

COLOGNE Conference Programme

(July

21-26,

1958). The following topics have been selected for

discussion at the 1958 conference:

In Plenary Session or Symposia :

i. The Problems of Tort Liability and Financial

Protection arising out of International Atomic

Operations.

2. The American Closed Corporation and

its

Equivalent, and

the

status of Wholly-Owned

Subsidiaries in Other Countries.

3. Monopolies and Restrictive Trade Practices.

I;;

Committee Meetings :

The Legal Profession :

(a)

Insurance Protection against any and all

types of Lawsuits—their Propriety and Legal

ity.

(b)

Qualifications to Practise Law in the Foreign

and International Field.

(c)

Consideration of the Various Plans for Provid

ing Retirement Income for Members of the

Legal Profession.

5. Administration of Foreign Estates.

6. International Shipbuilding Contracts.

7. Protection of Investments Abroad in Time of

Peace.

8. Legal Aid.

9. International Judicial Co-operation.

Members who propose to attend the conference

and who would be willing to contribute papers on

any of the above subjects are requested to com

municate with the Secretary.

LAND REGISTRY.

The following letter from the Registrar of Titles

is reprinted at the request of the Mayo Solicitors

Bar Association :

Your Kef.

L/2/48.

7th April, 1948.

DEAR MR. PLUNKETT,

Re Authentication of Documents Executed in the U.S.A.

I am in receipt of your letter of the 25th ult.

on the subject of the authentication in the U.S.A.

of the execution of documents affecting lands the

subject of Folios in the Land Registry.

I have given consideration to the representations

contained in your letter particularly with regard to

certain difficulties which arise in carrying out the

formalities with regard to authentication.

In the