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Market Street, Listowel, Co. Kerry,
ind place final
examination June ;
Jeremiah A. Reidy, Kilmallock,
Co. Limerick ; Diarmuid P. Teevan, B.A. (N.U.I.),
3 Eglinton Road, Donnybrook, Dublin ; Cathal N.
Young, Ashe Street, Cavan.
THE MEDICO-LEGAL SOCIETY OF
IRELAND
Session 1960-61
Patron:
The Chief Justice, The Honourable Mr.
Justice Conor A. Maguire.
President:
Professor P. N. Meenan, M.D.,
Barrister-at-Law.
Past President:
Dr. J. P. Brennan, County Coroner.
Vice-Presidents:
The Honourable Mr. Justice
Murnaghan; Mr. Donough O'Donovan, Chief
State Solicitor ; Mr. J. A. McCarthy, Senior Counsel;
Dr. Francis McLaughlin;
Mr. Dermot Shaw,
Solicitor ;
Commissioner D. Costigan ;
E. Y.
Exshaw, Barrister-at-Law
Honorary Secretary:
Miss Agnes B. Cassidy.
Honorary Treasurer:
Captain James A. Kelly,
Solicitor.
Council:
Professor Maurice Hickey, State Patho
logist ;
Mr. Brendan McGrath, Solicitor; Mr.
Herman Good, Solicitor;
Dr. Shanley;
Dr.
Hamilton; Mr. M. B. Daly, Barrister-at-Law ;
Dr. J. Fitzgerald.
'Editor of Debates:
-Mr. Robert Barr, Barrister-at-
Law ;
Assistant 'Editor of Debates:
Mr. Max Abrahamson,
Solicitor.
Honorary Auditor:
Dr. Falvey.
Programme: 2.7th October,
1960, Symposium, "The
Professional Man in the World of to-day"—the
following took part: T. C. J. O'Connell, M.D.,
Dr. Scan McCann, M.D., Darach Connolly, Solicitor
and E. S. Fitzsimon, Barrister-at-Law. ID//&
November,
1960, Annual Dinner, Royal Hibernian Hotel.
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November,
1960, Paper: District Justice O
Riain : " The Children's Court ". i
ith January,
1961
Dr. C. P. S. Hamilton, " The History of Medicine
and the Law—East and West ".
c,th February,
1961:
Dr. Stafford Clarke, M.D., F.R.C.P., D.P.M.,
Physician in psychological medicine and Director of
the York Clinic, Guy's Hospital, Paper :
"True
Deliverance ; Medicine and the Law",
^oth March,
1961 :
The Honourable Mr. Justice Walsh :
"The
Preliminary investigation of indictable Offences
in the District Court".
ASSISTANT SOLICITORS; ALLOWANCES
AGAINST SCHEDULE E ASSESSMENTS
The Revenue Commissioners have given the
following ruling :
A solicitor employee is allowed the costs of;
(a)
the annual registration fee on taking out a
practising certificate.
(b}
the Compensation Fund contribution.
(/)
the £i library subscription to the Society,
as a deduction under schedule E where he has to bear
the costs of these items himself.
RENT RESTRICTIONS ACT, 1960
The Rent Restrictions Act 1960—No. 42 of 1960—
was signed by the President on zist December 1960
and is now law. It is hoped to publish a summary
of it later.
The Rent Restrictions Act 1960 (Forms) Regu
lations 1960—S.I. No. 270 of 1960—which give
detailed prescribed forms relating to Notice of
Increase—or of Reduction—of Rent and of Particu
lars of Proposed Expenditure on Improvements—
have now been published, and may be obtained
from the Government Publications Sale Office,
G.P.O. Arcade, Henry Street, Dublin—Price 2/-
(Postage 3d. extra). The Rent Restrictions Act, 1960
is now available at 5 /- per copy.
DECISIONS OF PROFESSIONAL
INTEREST
Driving
offences
not
deemed conduct professionally
disgraceful.
Before the Lord Chief Justice, Mr. Justice Ashworth
and Mr. Justice Elwes.
The Divisional Court allowed with costs this
appeal under section 18 of the Veterinary Surgeons
Act, 1948, by a veterinary surgeon, Mr. Arthur Hans,
of Southampton, from the order of the Disciplinary
Committee of the Council of the Royal College of
Veterinary Surgeons constituted under section 4 of
the Act of 1948, sitting on November I2th, 1959,
that his name be removed from the Register of
Members of the College, and substituted a two
years' suspension.
The Lord Chief Justice, giving judgment, said
that the Disciplinary Committee found, first, that the
appellant had twice been convicted—those convic
tions were admitted—and also that he had been
guilty of conduct disgraceful in a professional
respect. His lordship would himself have thought
that a finding against a veterinary surgeon that he
had been guilty of conduct disgraceful in a profes
sional respect about as serious as it could be. This
surgeon had had to come to the court to say that,
whatever he had done, he was not guilty of such
conduct. His counsel having opened the case, it was
then conceded that that finding was wrong and could
not be supported. Nevertheless, it had been said that
this man should suffer the extreme penalty of having
his name removed from the register. His lordship