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LIBRARY-VACATION
ARRANGEMENTS.
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h e
Library will be closed from Monday 16th
August, 1954, to Wednesday 15th September, 1954,
inclusive. Members requiring books urgently may
obtain same by application to the General Office.
The library will re-open on Thursday 16th September,
1954 at 10 am.
SOLICITORS’ APPRENTICES’
DEBATING SOCIETY.
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h e
Solicitors’ Apprentices’ Debating Society have
elected the following Auditor and Committee for
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Auditor ; Desmond P. H. Windle; Treasurer;
Michael A. Staines; Correspondence Secretary:
Joseph J. K iem an ; Record Secretary ; Michael
Williams.
Committee.
Owen Binchy, Brian W. Russell, Brendan Rogers,
Walter Beatty.
The following are the awards for the session
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Oratory.
Incorporated Law Society’s Gold Medal: Walter
Beatty.
Society’s Silver Medal; Desmond P. H. Windle.
Special Certificate; John F. Buckley.
Legal Debate.
President’s Gold Medal; Walter Beatty.
Society’s Silver Medal; James J . O’ Sullivan.
Impromptu Speeches.
Vice-Presidents’ Gold Medal; Walter Beatty.
Vice-Presidents’ Silver Medal; Michael Williams.
Irish Debate.
Society’s Gold Medal; James Kenny.
Society’s Silver Medal; Miss Carmel O’Connell.
First Year Speakers.
Society’s Silver Medal; Andrew F. Smyth.
The Gold Medal for English Essays was not
awarded.
LECTURES ON TAXATION.
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attention of members and their apprentices
is drawn to the new Course D lectures on Taxation
which will be delivered by Mr. Vincent Grogan,
M .A., B.L. The subject o f the course will be death
duties, income tax, stamp duties and the law of
rating and valuation, but the main emphasis of the
lectures will be on death duties. The Council have
been dissatisfied with the standard of answering at
recent Intermediate and Final Examinations on the
questions set on death duties, and the new course of
lectures is designed to supply an obvious want.
The new course o f lectures is part o f the Society’s
policy o f transferring the Society’s lecture courses
from the present academic or theory subjects to
the more technical or practical branches o f the law
with which solicitors have to deal in the course of
daily practice. It is expected that further steps
will be taken in this direction when the necessary
arrangements can be made with the Universities.
Attendance at the new Course D lectures will be
obligatory for all apprentices who have not already
attended and obtained credit for 'Courses A , B , and
C, but any apprentice who wishes may attend the
lectures on enrolment and payment of the prescribed
fee.
LECTURES, MICHAELMAS
SITTINGS
Course A .—Mondays and Thursdays, 2.15 p.m.,
commencing Monday, October 4th.
Course B.—Tuesdays and Fridays, 2.15 p.m., com
mencing Tuesday, October 5th.
Course C.—Tuesdays and Saturdays, 9 a.m., com
mencing Tuesday, October 5th.
Course D.—Mondays, 9 a.m., and Saturdays,
10.15 a.m., commencing Monday, October 4th.
The fee payable on application to attend each
course o f lectures is £8 8 o.
NOMINATION TO
SEANAD EIREANN.
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M .A., LL .D ., was nominated by
an Taoiseach as a member o f Seanad Eireann
pursuant to Article 18 (3) o f the Constitution.
RECENT LEGAL DECISIONS
(1) HOUSE PURCHASE. IMPLIED
WARRANTY.
T
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judgment o f the President of the Fligh Court
in Brown, Fergus and O’Connor
v.
Norton
(1954,
88 I.L.T .R . 102) will be o f particular interest to
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