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of one annual scholarship to the student who
(a)
has
entered into Indenture of Apprenticeship ;
(£) has
attended a year's course of lectures approved by the
Society at Dublin University or at one of the con
stituent Colleges of the National University of
Ireland ;
(f)
has not at any time been a Solicitor's
Clerk who has availed himself of the provision of
paragraph 5 of the Second Schedule to the Solicitors
Act 1954 ;
(d)
has not presented himself for the first
law examination on any previous occasion;
(e)
has
not been called to the Bar ; and
(f)
has in the opinion
of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society
by his answering at the Society's first law examina
tion shown the most proficiency in the subjects of
the said examination.
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if any person
has any objection to make, or suggestion to offer,
concerning the above provisional Order, he, or she,
should forward to the same in writing to this Office
within FOURTEEN DAYS from the date of this Notice.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD,
Dated this jth day of February,
1958.
J. S. MARTIN,
Secretary.
Office of the Commissioners of
,
Charitable Donations and Bequests
for Ireland,
128 Lower Baggot Street,
DUBLIN.
COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITABLE
DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS
FOR IRELAND
Public Notice
(Pursuant to the provisions of Section 6 of the
Charitable Donations and Bequests Act 1871 as
amended by the Charitable Donations and Bequests
(Amendment Act) 1955.)
The Findlater Scholarship
WHEREAS
the Commissioners of Charitable
Donations and Bequests for Ireland at their meeting
held on 8th October, 1957, acting under the power
vested in them by Section 6 of the Charitable
Donations and Bequests Act 1871 as amended by
the Charitable Donations and Bequests (Amendment)
Act 1955 made a provisional Cy-pres Order relating
to the future application of the Findlater Scholarship
Fund.
AND WHEREAS at their meeting held on the
I4th January, 1958, the said Commissioners made
a further Order modifying their previous Order so
as to provide for the future application of the Charity
income in the award of an annual scholarship to the
student who receives the highest marks on the
aggregate results of the Second and Third Law
Examinations held by the Incorporated Law Society
pursuant to the Solicitors Act 1954 (Apprenticeship
and Education) Regulations 1955 (S.I. No. 217 of
195 5) as amended by the Solicitors Act 1954 (Appren
ticeship and Education) (Amendment) Regulations
1956 (S.I. No. 307 of 1956.)
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that if any person
has any objection to make, or suggestion to offer,
he, or she, should forward the same in writing to
the Office of
the
said Commissioners within
FOURTEEN DAYS from the date of this Notice.
BY ORDER OF THE BOARD.
Dated this -jth day of February,
1958.
J. S. MARTIN,
Secretary.
Office of the Commissioners of
Charitable Donations and Bequests
for Ireland,
128 Lower Baggot Street,
DUBLIN.
DECISIONS OF PROFESSIONAL
INTEREST
Unfair attraction of business :
acting for both parties'
In a matter which was brought before the Disci
plinary Committee in England the facts were as
follows :
A firm of solicitors was charged with, inter alia,
an offence under Rule i of the Solicitors' Practice
Rules, 1936, namely, that they had done a thing
which could reasonably be regarded as calculated
to attract business unfairly.
The solicitors acted for an estate development
company who were building and selling a block of
flats at prices of £2,500 or £2,600 each.
In August, 1955, the company were concerned at
what they considered to be delay on the part of
various solicitors acting for purchasers in com
pleting the purchases. They asked the solicitors if
completion would be expedited if they acted for
both parties, and if they would be prepared so to
act. The solicitors expressed reluctance to act, but,
in reply to the company's query as to what their
costs would be if they did act, said they would
amount to £21.
In October, 1955, a proposed purchaser was
written to by the sales manager of the company to
the effect that, if she engaged the company's soli
citors, completion would be speeded up and the
company would pay the stamp duty ; he also stated
that the solicitors' costs would be reduced by about
£10, if they acted for both parties.