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Vol. 42

No. 4

August,

1948

THE GAZETTE

of the

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

'President :

SEAN O HUADHAIGH

Wee-Presidents :

JAMES R. QUIRKE,

JOHN J. SMITH.

Secretary:

ERIC A. PLUNKFIT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL

JULY 22ND.

The President in the chair: Also

present: Mr. James R. Quirke, Vice-President;

Messrs. Daniel O'Connell, Roger Greene, Patrick

R. Boyd, Reginald J. Nolan, John J. Bolger, J.

Travers Wolfe, James P. Carrigan, William

J.

Norman, Henry P. Mayne, William S. Hayes, Francis

J. Gearty, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Anthony J. Malone,

Arthur Cox, Joseph Barrett, William L. Duggan,

Patrick F. O'Reilly, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Dermot

P. Shaw.

The following was among

the business

trans

acted :—

New Lecturers

ON a report from the Court of Examiners the

Council appointed Mr. R. W. Roche Johnston,

LL.B., of

20 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, as

lecturer on conveyancing and Mr. Desmond A.

O'Connor, of 140 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin, as

lecturer on general practice.

Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee

ON a report from the Legislation and Privileges

Committee the Council approved draft representa

tions from the Society on the subject of the proposed

recommendations to the Labour Court issued by

the Joint Labour Committee on zand June. The

Council also considered a report from the same

Committee on a query from a member as to whether

the reference to first and later years of employment,

in the various scales of wages, refer to employment

in a solicitor's office, particularly in regard to

Typists and Shorthand Typists.

It was ordered

that the member be informed that the construction

of the order is a matter for individual solicitors,

and in the last resort, for a Court of Justice, but,

subject thereto, the opinion of the Council is that

the reference to years of employment means years

of employment in a solicitor's office.

Certificates of Discharge from Death Duties

THE Secretary reported that, following a deputation

from the Society and from the Irish Banks' Standing