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GAZETTE
JANUARY/FEBRUARY 1978
LAW SOCIETY NOTES
THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY
1977
December 16th
Attended at Midland Bar Association dinner dance at
Tullamore.
1978
January 18th
Attended luncheon given by Mr. Kieran Condell,
Managing Director, Northern Bank Finance Corporation,
and senior executives of N.B.F.C.
January 20th
Attended Seminar organised by Dublin Solicitors' Bar
Association on office management at Royal Marine
Hotel, Dun Laoghaire, and later attended Galway Bar
Association dinner dance at Ardelaun Hotel, Galway.
January 27th
Represented by Mrs. Moya Quinlan, Junior Vice-
President, at Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating Society
Inaugural meeting in Dublin.
January 28th
Attended Inaugural meeting of the Ordre des Avocats
of the Paris Bar at the Palais de Justice and later dinner
given by the Batonnier of the Paris Bar, Maitre Louis
Petiti and the Council of the Order.
February 2nd
Attended dinner of the Institute of Taxation in Ireland
at the Burlington Hotel, Dublin.
February 3rd
Attended a solemn sitting of the Superior Courts at the
Supreme Court to welcome Professor Hans Kutcher,
President of the European Court, and later dinner given
by the Honourable Sodety of the Benchers at the Kings
Inns.
February 3rd
Attended luncheon with Mr. Michael Culligan, General
Manager, Agricultural Credit Corporation, and Mr.
Dermot Jones and Mr. V. Philips.
February 4th
Represented by Mrs. Moya Quinlan, Junior Vice-
President, at the annual dinner of the Institute of Certified
Accountants.
February 11th
Attended annual dinner of the Southern Law
Association at the Metropole Hotel, Cork.
Survay of Solicitors' Earnings, 1977
Copies of the above report, prepared by Coopers &
Lybrand Associates Ltd., on the basis of returns
furnished by 201 firms, are now available from the
Society at a cost of £1.00 plus 0.19p postage.
An application has been made to the Minister for
Industry, Commerce, & Energy, for a further review of
solicitors' earnings on the basis of the information
contained in the report.
UNDERTAKINGS COMMITTEE
Letters of Undertaking in quadriplicate, officially
approved by the Council of the Society, are expected to be
available at the Society's Offices, Blackhall Place, Dublin
7, on 1st May, next. Each series of letters will consist of
recommendations to the undertaking Solicitor, client's
authority and retainer, provisions in respect of the Family
Home Protection Act, 1976, and four copies of each
letter—for the recipient, the deed holder, the file, and the
Central Register of a Solicitor's office, respectively.
DUBLIN DOCUMENT
EXCHANGE
The Society is now a member of the Dublin
Document Exchange, located at 3 Molesworth
Place, Dublin 2.
Our Box No. is 79.
LAW SOCIETY
THREE-DAY
CONFERENCE
Dunloe Castle Hotel, Killarney
FRIDAY, 5th MA Y -
SUNDAY, 7th MAY 1978
Programme subjects will include—
"The Abolition of the Scale Fee?"
"Have the Courts failed the Family?"
"Should Single Practitioner Offices be
Abolished?"
"Child Criminals?"
This is
not
a Seminar. This is
not
the old Half-
Yearly Meeting. This is
an opportunity
for the
profession to express their views on important
issues both legal and social.
Full programme will be circulated shortly.
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