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GAZETTE
APRIL 1977
COUNCIL OF THE SOCIETY
COUNCIL DINNER
The Annual Dinner of the Council of the Society was
held in the Library of the Society in the Four Courts on
Thursday, 31st March, 1977. The President, Mr. Bruce
St. John Blake, received the guests. The guests included
representatives of all the professional bodies and banking
and commercial institutions, and also included the
Minister for Finance (Mr. R. Ryan, T.D.) and the
Minister for Justice (Mr. P. Cooney, T.D.). The members
of the Judiciary present included the Chief Justice (the
Hon. T. F. O'Higgins), the President of the High Court
(the Hon. Mr. Justice T. Finlay), Mr. Justice Walsh, Mr.
Justice Henchy, Mr. Justice Griffin, Mr. Justice Kenny,
Mr. Justice Butler, Mr. Justice Hamilton, Mr. Justice
Murnaghan, Mr. Justice Gannon, Mr. Justice McMahon,
Mr. Justice Doyle, Mr. Justice Pringle, Mr. Justice
Conroy, the President of the Circuit Court (Mr. Justice
Durcan), and the President of the District Court (Justice
Ó Floinn). Also present were the President of the
Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland (Mr.
Lennox Cotton), the Attorney-General (Mr. Declan
Costello), Mr. Sydney Lomas and Miss Thomasina
McKinney of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern
Ireland, the Provost of Trinity College (Professor F. S. L.
Lyons), Professor R. F. V. Heuston, Dean of the Faculty
of Law, T.C.D., Professor Niall Osborough, Dean of the
Faculty of Law, U.C.D., and Professor E. Ryan, Dean of
the Faculty of Law, U.C.C.
The toast of "Our Guests" was proposed by Mr.
Walter Beatty, Junior Vice-President of the Society, and
responded to by Mr. Justice Hamilton. The toast of "The
Society" was proposed by Mr. Patrick Cooney, T.D.,
Minister for Justice, and responded to by the President.
THE PRESIDENT'S DIARY OF ENGAGEMENTS
22-3-1977: Attended Carlow Bar Association
Meeting.
23-3-1977: Attended Annual General Meeting of the
Solicitors' Benevolent Association.
24-3-1977: Accompanied by the Vice-Presidents,
Messrs Joseph Dundon and Walter Beatty, and the
Director General, paid a courtesy visit to the President of
Ireland.
28-3-1977: Attended Kildare Bar Association Meeting
at Lawlor's Hotel, Naas.
29-3-1977: Attended Cavan Bar Association Meeting
at the Farnham Arms Hotel, Cavan.
31-3-1977: Presided at the Dinner given by the
Council of the Law Society in the Library, Four Courts.
4-4-1977: Attended Wexford Bar Association Meeting
at White's Hotel, Wexford.
13-4-1977: Attended Irish Medical Association,
Presidential Address and Reception at Europe Hotel,
Killarney.
15-4-1977: Was guest of the Tipperary and Offaly
(Birr Division) Sessional Bar Association.
19-4-1977: Attended Louth Bar Association Meeting
at the Imperial Hotel, Dundalk.
20-4-1977: Attended Limerick Bar Association
Meeting at Chamber of Commerce. Later was guest of
the Clare Bar Association at Dinner in the Old Ground
Hotel, Ennis.
22-4-1977: Represented the Law Society in St.
Patrick's Cathedral, Armagh, at the funeral of his
Eminence Cardinal Conway in the forenoon. Attended at
the Mount Brandon Hotel, Tralee, the Society of Young
Solicitors' weekend seminar, commencing on 22 April
1977 on developments in Employment and Labour Law
and Planning Law.
26-4-1977: Attended Galway Bar Association
Meeting in the Great Southern Hotel, Galway.
29-4-1977: At the invitation of the President and
Council of the Royal Institute of the Architects of Ireland
attended a Reception and Dinner in the Gresham Hotel,
Dublin. Was guest speaker at the Ex-Auditors Debate of
the Solicitors' Apprentices Debating Society of Ireland on
the motion "That we would fuse the legal profession".
EXAMINATION DATES AND FEES
Please note that the Society's examinations will commence on the following dates and the
closing dates are as shown:
Examination
Date of Commencement
Closing Date
First Irish
Wednesday, 13 July 1977
29 June 1977
Second Irish
Friday, 15 July 1977
29 June 1977
Law Examinations
Friday, 19 August 1977
26 July 1977
Entries received after 4.00 p.m. on the specified closing date will not be considered.
All entry forms should be accompanied by the appropriate fee as specified in the Solicitors Acts
1954 and 1960 (Apprentices Fee) Regulations, 1975, which are as follows:
Examination
First Entry
Repeat Entry
First Irish
£5.00
£3.00
Second Irish
£5.00
£5.00
First Law
£10.00
£10.00
Second Law
£15.00
£10.00
Third Law
£15.00
£10.00
Applications received without the entry fees will not be accepted.
The Education Committee will only consider applications for exemption from sitting the First
Law Examination from those who have entered for the examination, paid the prescribed fee and
furnished the appropriate evidence of their degree qualification.
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