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Vol. 47
No. 1 0 7
April
1954
THE GAZETTE
oj the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
J
oseph
B
arrbtt
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
J
ohn
J. N
ash
E
ric
A.
P
lunkett
J
ohn
R.
H
alpin
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
8
th
A
pril
: The President in the Chair; also
present:—Messrs. John J. Nash and John R.
Halpin, Vice-Presidents; James J. O’Connor, Donal
O’Hagan, Peter E. O’Connell, Joseph P. Tyrrell,
Francis J. Gearty, C. E. Callan, Thomas A. O’Reilly,
John Maher, Francis J. Lanigan, William J. Norman,
Cornelius J. Daly, Reginald J. Nolan, Charles J.
Downing, George G. Overend, Ralph J. Walker,
John J. Sheil, George A. Nolan, John Carrigan,
Desmond J. Collins, Louis E. O’Dea, Flenry St.
J. Blake, Derrick M. Martin, Arthur Cox, Patrick
R. Boyd, Sean O’hUadhaigh, Patrick F. O’Reilly.
The following was among the business transacted :
Second Irish Examination.
I
t
was decided that in future there will be two
written papers of two hours each instead of one
four-hour paper as at present.
Legal Text Books.
T
he
Council considered a report from a recent
conference between the Society’s representatives and
representatives of the Institute o f Chartered Accoun
tants and the Society of Incorporated Accountants.
The report stated that there is an urgent need for
legal text books and that the conference had been
held at the request of the accountancy bodies to
ascertain whether the problem could be solved by
joint action. It appeared however that the needs of
the two professions are not identical. The accoun
tants’ representatives stated that they needed books
on Executorship Law, Income Tax, and Company
Law, while the books most urgently required for
solicitors’ apprentices are books on Real and Per
sonal Property, Contracts and Torts, Equity and
Practice and Procedure. There is common ground
as regards the subjects of Income Tax and Company
Law but until the Company Law Reform Committee
have made their report it would be premature to
consider the publication of a new work on this
subject. It was decided to adjourn further con
sideration of this matter having regard to the
possibility o f obtaining funds which can be used
for legal education under the provisions of the
draft Solicitors Bill 1953 which has been considered
by the Government.
Builders’ advertisements.
T
he
Council considered a report from a Committee
on the subject of an advertisement published by a