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THE INCORPORATED
LAW
SOCiETY OF IRELAND
MAY 1978
VOL. 72
NO.4
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Ordinary General Meeting
Killarney, 7th May, 1978
The President, Mr. Joseph L. Dundon, took the chair on
the occasion of the half-yearly meeting which was held in
the Dunloe Castle Hotel. Beaufort, near Killarney, on
Friday, 7th May, 1978, at 10.00 a.m.
The notice convening the meeting was read by the
Director General, Mr.
J.
Ivers. The minutes of the annual
general meeting" held on 24th November, 1977, having
been circulated in advance, were taken as read, and
signed by the President.
Mr. Donal Browne, Vice-President of the Kerry Bar
Association, on behalf of Mr. Gerald Baily, President,
who was
ill,
welcomed the President. the members of the
Council, the official guests. and members of the Society.
to Kerry and wished them an enjoyable time in Killarney
and a successful meeting.
The appointment of the following members as
Scrutineers of the ballot of the Council to be held on 9th
November. 1978. wns unanimollsly- Rgreed.
Scrutineers: Laurence Branigan, Eunan McCarron,
Alexander McDonald. Brendan McCormack, Rnd
Roderick Tierney.'
The President, Mr. Joseph L. Dundon, then delivered
his presidential address.
I
Legal Education and Continuing Legal Education
The first topic to which I would like to address myself
is that of legal education and in close association with it,
continuing legal education. Few of you except, perhaps
our visitors from overseas, will be unaware of the con–
siderable public interest which has been aroused by the
implementation of our new arrangements for the
education of apprentices. The essential ingredients of
which, are that, with effect from January. 1979. the
Society will provide for graduate apprentices, an inten–
sive vocational period of training of 22 weeks in the
Society's new Law School in Blackhall Place. based on
the principle of learning by doing, that is to say
simulating so far as that is possible, the conditions, with
which the apprentice will
be
required to cope, in practice
during the succeeding period as a working apprentice,
leading up to qualification. There appears to be general
agreement, even among our critics, that this system
will
be vcry much more satisfactory than the prescnt arrange–
ments, which etTectively result in apprentices qualifying
without, in most cases, having any expcrir.nce whatsover
of the day to dny practicalities of being a solicitor.
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