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attended) and the rights, duties and responsibilities

of solicitors (4 lectures, of which at least three must

be attended).

Lectures will be delivered as

follows :—

Michaelmas Sittings—12 ;

Hilary Sittings—21 ;

Easter Sittings—9.

Lectures on Monday and

Wednesday at 3.30 o'clock, save where otherwise

notified.

For a selection of recommended reading see

the published syllabus for the Intermediate and

Final

Examinations.

The Lecturer will

not

necessarily undertake to cover the entire field in

each subject or lecture out of any particular text

book. He will advise the class as to its reading

and will assume that each student will have read

on the lines advised, in advance of each lecture,

on the subject-matter of the lecture. The aim of

lectures will be to guide students in their work

and

to

illustrate, explain and supplement

their

reading.

A written examination will be held at the end

of each term's lectures.

Courses B. and C. may be attended in the same

year, but Course A. must be completed before

either Course B. or C. is commenced. An apprentice

who has on ist October, 1948, already attended

and obtained credit for the Society's Junior and

Senior Lectures is eligible for Course C. lectures,

but is not obliged to attend them.

Every other

apprentice is obliged to take Courses A. B. and C.

LEGAL EDUCATION

THE Council have made new regulations amending

the regulations dated 6th October, 1948.

It is

provided that nothing

in

the regulations shall

operate so as to oblige an apprentice, who has

already attended and obtained credit for the Society's

lectures

in Common Law and Real Property,

Equity and Conveyancing, to attend any further

lectures. Every apprentice who does not fall within

the above-mentioned class will be obliged to attend

and obtain credit for courses A., B. and C., parti

culars of which are given in this

issue of the

Society's GAZETTE.

The Council attach particular

importance

to

the

new Course C

lectures on the subject of

conveyancing and general practice of a solicitor's

office, and the rights, duties and responsibilities

of a solicitor.

It is felt that these lectures will

supply a long-felt want. It is difficult for a master

in normal cases to entrust an apprentice with even

simple

conveyancing matters

owing

to

the

apprentice's lack of knowledge of the theory of

conveyancing and its application in practice, and

the difficulty of imparting instruction in this matter

in the busy atmosphere of an office.

It is hoped

that the 18 lectures on conveyancing will be devoted

to practical aspects of the matter, and will enable

an apprentice to obtain that groundwork which

will make him more useful in the office.

The

Council also hope that masters of apprentices, who

have obtained certificates of having attended and

obtained credit for Course C, will feel justified in

delegating a certain amount of conveyancing work

of a simple nature to them.

The other most important change effected by

the new regulations is in regard. to the questions

as to due service under indentures of apprenticeship.

Heretofore, the questions have been required to

be answered by the apprentice and by the master

only at the time of the apprentice's application

for admission as a solicitor. The questions to be

answered by the master will now be replaced by a

Statutory Declaration as to the apprentice's service

under indentures, and both the answers of the

apprentice as

to due service and

the master's

declaration will require to be submitted to the

Society on two occasions, the first being when

the apprentice applies for permission to attend

the

Intermediate Examination, and

the second

being at the time of the apprentice's application

for admission as a solicitor. It is also proposed to

furnish to each solicitor about to take an apprentice,

and

to

the apprentice after his

indentures of

apprenticeship have been registered, a copy of

the questions which he will be required to answer,

and a copy of the solicitor's Statutory Declaration,

so that both parties to the apprenticeship deed

will be

aware,

at

the commencement of

the

apprenticeship, of the precise obligations entailed

by the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898,

and

the

Society's regulations.

PROFESSIONAL ITEMS

Undercutting Charges

" THE Disciplinary Committee recently pronounced

their Findings and Order in a case which may

be of general interest.

The respondent was charged with professional

misconduct in that he had, notwithstanding the

provisions of Rule 2 of the Solicitors' Practice

Rules, 1936—

(a)

held himself out as being prepared to

do professional business

in

a non-