The Gazette 1946-49

Apprentices in the District Court

On ThursdaV morning. the 4th

February 19B8, Solicitors

Apprentices were offiCially w el–

comed to the D,stflct Court In

Dun Laoghalfe

Judge Hubert

Wine.

The occasion was marked bv

a Statement from Judge Wine to

the press, practitioners and the

pubhc who were present In

Court. In It he referred to the

Important part apprlltfltlces have

to play and how necessary It IS

for those who are about to be

solicitors to have confidence to

stand In Court and appear for

their chents. It was with great

pllde that the District Court In

Dun Laoghalfe had the dls–

ttnctlon of betng the hrst Dublin

Court to offiCially and formally

recognise the SoliCitors'

Appren–

tices In the District Court.

He also referred to the

wearing of gowns and was parti–

cularly pleased to see young

practitIOners In hiS court WtUtfing

gowns and expressed the deslfe

that thiS should be the case

henceforth.

Juslln McKenna, on behalf of

the practitioners, replied to the

Judge bV refelling to the good

work calfled

out

Jim Oone9an

Knocklolty House, Clonme' was the

venue

on Wednesday 2nd

M arch, lor

the

Rtlglonal Meeting 01 the Irish Auctioneers and Valuers

Institute, lor members Irom

Limerick,

Offaly. Tipperary. Laols,

Kilkenny, Waterford. Wexlord and Carlow The members

Wflfe

addressed by the Prttsldenr. Mr. PBtfick OUirke, Clonmel, M r. Donal

G. Bmchy. Council MembfJr 01 the Incorporated Law SocHJty on "ThtJ

01 Contract" andMr. DavKl

Mack~

AsSISUmt County MIJnlJger.

Tippeftlry. on "Tha Role 01 the Local AurhOflty':

lively Op6n lorum

followad each of thft well-prapared presentations.

IPhoto courtesy of

Clonmel Nationalist)

WICKLOW BAR ASSOCIATION

The members of the Committee are as follows :

President:

William Fallon. Solicitor. 3 Church

Buildings. M ain Street, Arklow.

Hon. Treasurer:

Cathal Louth. Solicitor, Ferry

Bank, Arklow.

Hon.

Secfflt~ry:

Joseph F. Maguire, 98 Main

Street. Bray, Co. Wicklow.

m Cork in this regard. Mr.

Donegan pioneered the Intro–

duction to the District Court of

apprentices allowing them to

appear In uncontested matters.

He hoped that the work carried

out

Judge Wine in Dun

Laoghalfe was a further example

the

.Judges

the

0istricI:

Court

practismg throughout the land .

The photograph shows. from

left to right. Justin M c Kenna,

soIidtot, Roslyn

Moran.

appiEli

ltic:e,

Judge Wine. Paul McGuinness.

newly qualified solicitor. Gerard

Lambe, solicitor.

" Sport.

Inlurl•• and

the

law"

Sympo.lum

BI8ckhan Place. 23rd March

1988

Spaakers (from lelt): Saan Clancy. Genaral Managar, Church

Generallnsuftlncfl Co.: Gerald Kean, Solicitor.- and Dr. PtJtrlCk Murray.

Consultant. NatIOnal Medical Rahabllitation Centra, Dun

~oghlJlre.

LAW SOCIETY ANNUAL

CONFERENCE. CORK

6th - 8th Mey. 1988

Have you Registered yet?

Visit

Solicitors to European Court and European Parliament

to right!. Adflan Burke, Chalfman

Relations Committee; HIS Honour Judge Thomas F O'Hlggms; Ms

Geraldine Clarke, Law Socl6ty CounCil Member, and Mr Ken Murphy.

Law Society Council Member.

DUBLIN SOLICITORS BAR A SSOCIATION

ANNUAL DINNER

The D,S,B,A, Annual Dmner was

held on the 26th of Februarv.

1988

the Shelboulne Hotel. It

was a mOSt successfUl funClion

and guests Included the

P'es,dent of the HIgh CO\Itt. MI

Jusllce L,am Hamilton. Ihe

PreSident

the Bellast

SoliCitors ASSOCiation. Mr. DaVid

M cFarlane. the Vice PreSident of

the Northern Ireland SoliCitors

ASSOCiation. MI Colin Haddlck

and the Semor Vice PreSident

the Law Socletv. MI MaUrice

CUllan, It was the fllst tIme lor

many years that the functIon

was held O\Itslde Blackhall Place.

which added a new and mter

eSllng dImenSion to the evemng

The Presldenl Mr Telence

Dixon addlessed the funCtion

bfleflv and.

parllCular,

expressed concern about the

proposed BUilding Socletv's Bill

FollOWing an excellent dinner

members and guests danced to

the Earl Gill Orchestra until the

earlv houls

CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME

Please

send news lIems and photographs for publicat ion In

this column to:

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"Dublm Tomorrow

A Llvmg City"

Law Soclaty SympOSium

27 2 , 988

(Lalt to flghrJ: Mr Mauflca

Curran, SenIOr

Vice

Prasldent, Mr,

Sam

Stflphenson. Speaker, and

ROfY

O'Donnell, JUnior Vica President

VISIT BY SOLI CITORS TO EUROPEAN COURT AND

EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT

Thirty soliCitors drawn from the Younger Members Committee and

Ihe e,E.c. and Internauonal Allalfs Committee of the

law

Socletv

and from the Society of Young Sohcltors vls.ted the European Court

In Brussels and the European Parliament In StrasbourQ In January_

The Y1511. which was most informative and Inleresllng, was hosted

by Judge Thomas O'Higgins and Mr DaVid O'Keeffe In Brussels and

bot

Mrs. Mary Banon" MEP

and

..10M

$molh of

the

Counc~

Europe

Strasbourg

The

delegallon attended a

Sltt.ng

of the

Court

II'l

Brussels

follOWing which Judge

O' ~""ggon5

hosted an e)!cellenl luncheon.

Mrs. Banotll 8H8nged 101 the delegation to attend II seSSion of

the European Parhament

Strasbourg, followed

a meeting which

was attended by the CommiSSioner, Peter Sutherland and MEPs

Marv Banottl, Eileen Lemass, Chris O'MalleV, Paddv Lawless, Gene

Fitzgerald and Joe McCartin. and also bv some of the British MEPs.

Dmner was hosted bV Mrs. Marv BanoUi who also invited British

Conservative MEP Lady Ellis to address the Visitors.

The VISit was most benehClal In prOVldmg an understandmg

the functions of the Court and Parliament and Into the high level of

COfl"WTlItment

and

the work being

done

OU"

representatives

11'1

El.M"ope.

With Ms. Margaret WlJlsh, Solicitor,

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