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Vol.
54
No. 2
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JUNE,
1960
THE GAZETTE
INCORPORATED
of the
LAW
SOCIETY
OF
IRELAND
President
JOHN J. NASH
Vice-Presidents
RALPH J. WALKER
PETER E. O'CONNELL
Secretary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE
Page
Meetings of the Council ...
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Medical Practitioners, Disclosure ofinformation
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11
Auctioneers' Association
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12
Solicitor's right of access to prisoner
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12
Family arrangement. Sale topersonal representative
12
Mr. James
R.
Quirke. designationfrom the Council
12
Lease. Ditty of lessor's solicitor
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12
Press notices by solicitors
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13
Solicitors Act
1954
(Apprenticeship and Education)
(Amendment] Regulations
1960
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13
Solicitors Act
1954
(Apprentices' Fees) Regu
lations
1960 ...
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14
Examination Results
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15
Final, second and third law examinations ...
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15
Parliamentary question
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15
Finance Bill
1960
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15
Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association
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16
County Tipperary and Offaly Sessional Bar Associa
tion
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16
Hire Purchase (Amendment) Act
1960
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16
Decisions of professional interest
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18
Obituary
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21
Issue of duplicate land certificates
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MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
May 26th: The President in the chair, also present
Messrs Terence de Vere White, Dermot P. Shaw,
Derrick M. Martin, James J. O'Connor, James R.
Green, James W. O'Donovan, John Carrigan, John
R. Halpin, Ralph J. Walker, Peter E. O'Connell,
Charles J. Downing, Arthur Cox, Augustus Cullen,
John Maher, Eunan McCarron, Brendan A.
McGrath, George G. Overend, Robert McD.
Taylor, Dinnen B. Gilmore, James R. Quirke,
Francis J. Lanigan, Gerald Y. Goldberg, Desmond
J. Collins, John J. Sheil, Thomas A. O'Reilly.
The following was among the business transacted:
Medical Practitioners. Disclosure of informa
tion concerning patients
A committee of the Council considered correspond
ence with a local bar association on the subject of
disclosure by a medical practitioner in the whole-
time employment of a local authority of the result
of an examination of a patient in a county hospital
under treatment for injuries which led to a claim
against the local authority under the Workmen's
Compensation Acts. It was stated that the disclosure
was made by the medical practitioner to the local
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