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observations received from Bar Associations before
March 31st next.
It is contemplated that the
Solicitors’ Accounts Regulations will come into
operation on 1st January, 1956. The draft regula
tions are based on the following principles :—
1. A solicitor may not mix clients’ monies with
his own monies. Therefore all clients’ monies
should without delay be paid into a clients’
monies Bank Account.
2. A solicitor may not mix his own monies with
clients’ monies. Therefore a solicitor should
not pay monies o f his own into the clients’
monies Bank Account.
3. A solicitor should keep proper books of
account, distinguishing his own monies from
clients’ monies and showing the amount of
any monies held for each client.
4. A solicitor should not lend one client’s money
to another client. Therefore he may not with
draw from the clients’ monies’ Bank Account
for any client more than the amount standing
to the client’ s credit.
5. A solicitor may draw from monies of a client
in a clients’ monies’ Bank Account sums
properly due by that client for costs or dis
bursements.
<$. Payments may not be made from a clients’
monies Bank Account by cheques to the
solicitor’ s own creditors.
A ll withdrawals
under paragraph 5 should be by cheque
payable to the solicitor himself or by transfer
to the solicitor’s office account.
SPECIAL EXAMINER IN IRISH.
M
r
. R. B. Walsh, M .A., Ph.D., has been appointed
Special Examiner in Irish to the Society with the
approval of the Minister for Education.
FIRST AND SECOND IRISH
EXAMINATIONS.
A
t
Examinations held on January 28th and 29th
under section 40 (3) o f the Solicitors’ Act, 1954,
the following candidates whose names are arranged
alphabetically were successful:—
First Irish Examination.
Richard Joseph Black, Lochlann Butler, Thomas
F. Cusack, Fionnuala Duane, Michael James Hogan,
John Morrissey, Kevin Coleman McGilligan,
Thomas Carl O’Leary, John P. Redmond, Jeremiah
A. Reidy, Donald M. Walsh, Cathal N. Young.
15 candidates attended ; 12 candidates passed.
Second Irish Examination.
Max W. Abrahamson, Owen Binchy, John'Francis
Buckley, Patrick J. Carolan, John P. Clifford,
Cliodna M. Cussen, John J. Delap, John P. Dillon,
Matthew P. Drum, Edward Joseph Duffy, Patrick
J. Gardiner, Gabriel F. Haughton, Gordon Alan
Henderson, Patrick C. Kelly, Richard D. Kennedy,
James F. Kenny, George Y . Maloney, Charles R. M.
Meredith, Anthony G. Moylan, Mary Margaret
Murray, Timothy B. McEniry, Albert L. O’Dea,
John A. O’Gorman, Arthur J. O’Leary, James J.
O’Sullivan, Gerard M. Quirk, Noel T. Smith,
Michael A. Staines.
31 candidates attended; 28 candidates passed.
INTERNATIONAL CIVIL
AVIATION ORGANISATION.
P
articulars
of a vacancy for the position o f legal
officer o f the Legal Bureau, Montreal, Canada, have
been received from the Department of Industry and
Commerce. One of the essential qualifications is
a thorough knowledge o f French. Further particu
lars may be obtained from the Secretary, Department
o f Industry and Commerce, Kildare Street, Dublin.
PROFESSIONAL ITEMS
Solicitors’ Undertaking—Enforcement by Summary
Summons.
A
case
o f interest to solicitors came before
Murnaghan J. on the first motion day o f Michaelmas
Term. This was a claim brought by summary
summons (Form 3) and entitled “ in the matter o f ”
certain named solicitors. The indorsement o f claim
was in terms claiming an order requiring the
defendant-solicitors in pursuance of a certain alleged
letter o f undertaking to pay the plaintiffs’ certain
monies. Affidavits filed by the plaintiffs set out
that the plaintiffs had claims against a company
who were clients o f the defendant solicitors, and
that the defendants had informed the plaintiffs’
solicitors that the defendants’ clients had proceedings
pending in England for a substantial sum and that
the defendants undertook to discharge, out o f
monies to be received by them from this source,
the amount due to the plaintiffs when ascertained
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