The Gazette 1978

GAZETTE

OCTOBER 1978

11.8

Eleven reports have been presented to the High Court (seven are outstanding).

(a) Solicitor suspended from practice

(b) Solicitor struck off roll and his accounts frozen

(d) No action taken as solicitor was struck off roll

11.9

Outstanding cases:

(a) Order of suspension from practice was extended for a further period of twelve

months

(b) Solicitor reproved

(d) Adjourned

11.10

On my own behalf and on behalf of the Committee I would like to express

thanks and appreciation to the Clerk to the Committee, Miss Mary Lynch, for her

patience, courtesy and willing assistance during the year.

E.E.C. AND

INTERNATIONAL

AFFAIRS

COMMITTEE

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Chairman

Adrian P. Bourke

Anthony E. Coffins

John Fish

Brendan A. McGrath

Gerald J. Moloney

Patrick C. Moore

Laurence K. Shields

Andrew F. Smyth

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John B. Jermyn,

Chairman

12.1

The major event in the past year has been the International Bar Association's

meeting in Sydney, Australia. No less than twenty-eight people from this country attended

what appears to have been a most successful meeting. So far as is known, this is the

largest party from this country ever to attend an I.B.A. meeting held outside Ireland.

12.2

All meetings of the Commission Consultative and the Union Internationale du

Notariat Latin were attended by our representatives, John Moloney, Anthony Collins and

John Fish. The Commission Consultative concerned itself,

inter alia

, with the installation

of foreign lawyers, an enquiry into the scales of legal fees being charged in member

countries and legal expenses insurance. Earlier in the year it was decided by the

Commission Consultative that any lawyer practising in a member country other than his

own must be provided with an identity card and some time was taken up on discussing the

format and contents of this card. By the time this report is published the first of these

cards will have been presented to representatives of each of the member countries at a

formal ceremony in Brussels.

12.3

It is regretted that the U.I.N.L. is still awaiting the Irish contribution to the Blue

Book on Ante-Nuptial Settlements.

12.4

At its meeting in County Clare in March the Policy Committee decided that

representation at (he Commission Consultative and the Union Internationale du Notariat

Latin should rotate. The Committee decided that each representative on these bodies

should serve for a period of five years if possible and successors were appointed to the

present representatives.

12.5

No progress has been made towards the provision of an E.E.C. Library and it

now seems clear that this project will probably die of sheer inertia.

12.6

A meeting was held in March in Belfast with the E.E.C. Committee of the

Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland with a view to establishing an agreement

providing for greater freedom in the provision of services by solicitors on either side of the

border. This meeting was frank, fruitful and followed by great hospitality. It was agreed

that a further meeting would take place in Dublin but this so far has not been possible as

our Northern colleagues have not made as rapid progress in the matter as had been

hoped.

12.7

Each member country is required to bring into force before March 1979 legis-

lation to give effect to the directive on freedom to provide services by lawyers. With this in

view members of this Committee attended a meeting in July with representatives of the

Bar Council and of the Department of Justice. This was a most useful meeting, remark-

able for the degree of co-operation between all the parties concerned and resulted in

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