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Law Clerks Wages

BY

the Employment Regulation (No. 2) Order

(Law Clerks

Joint Labour Committee),

1948

(S.I. No. 374 of 1948), minimum rates of wages

and conditions of employment have been pre

sented for managing clerks, conveyancing clerks

and costs clerks. The Order came .into operation

on i zth November and may be purchased at the

Government Publications Office, 3 College Street,

Dublin, price

^d.

Barristers' Incomes

THE news, if it can be called news, that the average

income of practising barristers is lower than in

most professions conies as no surprise to members

of the " lower branch," who know the difficulties

in the way of maintaining a post-war standard of

life on the basis of scales of costs which have

increased so little in the last fifty years.

In the case

'of a number of experienced and representative

common-law practitioners who answered a question

naire put to them by the General Council of the

Bar, the average income in London was £275, and

in the provinces £212.

In the case of some of the

most successful members of the junior bar, the

Council's figures showed an average income of

£1,332 in London, and £1,385 in the provinces.

Successful Chancery barristers are said to earn an

average of £1,610 a year, and only a few fashionable

" silks " earn large fees. These figures have been

submitted in the memorandum of evidence of the

General Council of the Bar to the Evershed Com

mittee on High Court Practice and Procedure. The

fees for conferences, pleadings and interlocutory

work remain the same as they were when a man

with a thousand a year was wealthy and income tax

was half a crown in the pound, and brief fees have

not noticeably increased.

Justice is certainly not a

vendible „ commodity, but those who have

the

courage to face the long wait and hard training

before they are considered ready to administer it

deserves something better than these recent figures

show that they get. These figures also show that,

whatever may be the cause of the high cost of

litigation, it is not the enrichment of lawyers.

(The Solicitors' Journal,

England.)

Solicitors' Accounts

SOLICITORS who are interested in modern book

keeping methods will find interesting articles on the

subject in the Solicitors' Journal for the znd, gth,

and 16th October, 1948. The articles, which are

based largely on the English Solicitors' Accounts

Rules, 1945, describe a system of book-keeping

which has been designed with the object of complying

with the rule which requires solicitors to keep

accounts

showing

the

separation of solicitors'

money from clients' money at any particular time.

Emergency Powers Orders

THE Government Publications Office have issued

a list of Orders and Statutory Instruments made

under the Emergency Powers Act, 1939/45, and the

Supplies and Services (Temporary Provisions Acts),

1946 and 1947, and in force •after 3151 March, 1948.

The publication is now on sale, price i/5d.

OBITUARY

MR. FREDERICK W. GILLIGAN died at a Dublin

Nursing Home on i3th September, 1948.

Mr. Gilligan served his apprenticeship with Mr.

Wm. J. Norman of i, Dame Street, was admitted

in Easter Sittings, 1930, and practised at 32, Bach

elor's Walk, Dublin. He was lecturer in Equity

and Conveyancing for this .Society from 1942 to

1946.

MR. FREDERICK GEORGE DICKSON died at his

residence St. John's, Fahan, Co. Donegal, on

ijth

October, 1948.

Mr. Dickson served his apprenticeship with the

late Mr. David R. Babington and Mr. Robert Wm.

Babington of Londonderry, was admitted in Hilary

Sittings, 1903, and practised as senior partner in

firm of Colquohoun & Dickson at Londonderry

and Fahan, Co. Donegal.

MR. ROBERT M. KIERAN died in Dublin on I3th

September, 1948.

Mr. Kieran served his apprenticeship with the

late Mr. George P. Cussen, of 44 Kildare Street,

Dublin, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1908, and

practised as Cartan O'Meara & Kieran, 10 Clare

Street, Dublin.

MR. HARRY R. MAUNSELL died at his residence

Rathleigh, Killiney, Co. Dublin, on :6th October,

1948.

Mr. Maunsell served his apprenticeship with the

late Thomas T. Mecredy, jnr., of 91, Merrion Square,

was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1902, and practised

as senior partner in T. T. Mecredy & Son, Merrion

Square, Dublin.