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FREE LEGAL AID CENTRES
Statistics: April
Centre
(1)
(2)
Contract
29
61
104
Crime
94
112
128
Hire-Purchase
16
21
53
Interpersonal Relations
400
99
146
Landlord and Te n a nt
60
95
35
Miscellaneous
23
33
84
Probate
15
51
20
Property
37
14
17
Social Welfare
23
40
56
To rt
49
61
142
Totals
746
587
785
Centres
(1) Molesworth Street (746)
(2) Rialto (587)
(3) Ballyfermot (785)
(4) Crumlin (807)
(5) Ballymun (303)
(6) Monkstown (146)
(7) Finglas (70)
to January 1974
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7)
40
30
5
7
276
"(8
per cent)
198
50
15
12
609
(18
per cent)
48
25
4
4
171
(5
per cent)
201
98
59
24
1027
(30
per cent)
88
23
27
2
330
(9
per cent)
60
13
15
6
234
(7
per cent)
32
8
2
— •
128
(4
per cent)
49
2
3
5
127
(4
per cent)
26
6
3
2
156
(4
per cent)
65
48
13
8
386
(11
per cent)
807
303
146
70
3444
Directors
(1) Nicholas Butler
(2) Randall Doherty
(3) John Finlay
(4) Alan Shatter
(5) Daragh Buckley
(6) Aideen Byrne
(7) Brian Sheridan
Comment on Statistics
Th e statistics from the largest centre, Moun t j oy
Square, have not been included in the above Table.
Due to the loss of the original book in which records of
cases dealt with were kept the figures from July 1973 to
October 1973 are not available. However, up to the
middle of July, the number of cases dealt with in this
centre amounted to 1435. As the case loads in all but
one centre have doubled since July 1972, it is reason-
able to assume that at the very least, Mountjoy Square
has dealt with 2000 cases to date.
Th e present Director reports that 30 new cases per
night is not unusual. This means that between the eight
centres, since April 1969, five and a half thousand cases
have been worked on.
T h e Interpersonal Relations category accounts for 30
per cent of the cases and thus remains far above all
other categories. Molesworth Street alone has received
400 such cases to date as compared with 176 up to the
end of July 1972.
Landlord and Te n a nt cases now make up 9 per cci»
1
of all cases compared with 13 per cent to July 1972-
This is the only category where the percentage h ^
dropped by 4 per cent whereas all others remain
s i m i D '
to the percentages recorded in the FLAG report, apad
from Interpersonal Relations which has risen 4 per cent-
Directors have mentioned to me that sometimes
a
case may fall into two or even three categories and
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is then difficult to decide under which heading to fi'
c
the case. For instance, a case involving a marital
pute could also include landlord and tenant and socia'
welfare problems, if a wife wished to have the Corpoi*
ation flat in which she and her family were living'
transferred into her name from that of her husband and
at the same time might qualify for social welfare benefit-
This has got to be borne in mind in any intei"
pretation of the statistics, but the problem is not ne\
v
as the same difficulty arose in relation to all othe'
statistics obtained from the centres, nonetheless tin*
factor should be taken into account.
CORRESPONDENCE
Allied Irish Banks Limited
Undertaking
Allied Irish Banks Limited
Legal De p a r tme nt
P.O. Box 531 Royal Bank Chambers
Foster Place, Dublin 2
Dear Sir,
I wish to refer to an article which appeared in the
J u l y /Augu st issue of the
Gazette
under the above head-
ing. T h e article, due to the manner in which it was
presented, has led to considerable misunderstanding ant'
unnecessary confusion among solicitors in relation
t()
the completion of the usual form of accountable receipt-
Ma ny solicitors seem to have got the impression frof
1
the article that there is something unique in the forfl
1
of accountable receipt used by Allied Irish Banks Ltd-
and that it is objectionable in certain respects. I woul
d
hasten to assure solicitors that this is not the case. The
present form has been in use for many years, not onb
by the banks but by other lending institutions, insui'
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