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The Editor
The Law Society Gazette
Law Society
Blackhall Place
Dublin 7
Dear Editor
I would like to canvas the support of
colleagues for a united approach to the
Financial Institutions doing business
in the State.
The purpose of the approach to the
aforementioned Financial Institutions
would be to seek their agreement, that
henceforth they would make their
various standards security
documentation available to practising
solicitors in the State on floppy disk
under a licensing arrangement.
I would respectfully submit that in
this stage of wide spread use of PC's
that it is leading to inefficiency in
solicitors offices (that are largely
geared to using documentation
generated from the data bases of PC's)
that we are being forced to fill in
relevant details of transactions in
standard security documentation on
manual/electronic typewriters.
I would be obliged to hear from
colleagues interested in supporting the
above mentioned proposed course of
action. I confirm that I am copying
this letter to the Secretaries of the
various Bar Associations throughout
the country.
Yours sincerely
Philip O 'Riada
O'Riada & Company
Irish Farm Centre Building
Bluebell
Dublin 12
Tel: 4 50 6 8 59
Fax: 4 50 6833
The Great Brazi l ian
Cha l l enge
Solicitor walks in the Jungle to raise
funds.
In an effort to raise £150,000.00 for
two well known charities, The
Richmond Brain Research Foundation
and The National Council for the Blind
of Ireland,
Pat O'Connor,
a solicitor
from Swinford has undertaken a walk
of 200 kilometres in Brazil -
The Great
Brazilian Challenge.
He was selected
from over 300 applicants for a place on
the forty member team. Pat believes
wholeheartedly in both causes and he
is fully committed to participating in
this high profile event.
The Great
Brazilian Challenge
will include the
Rain Forest, Amazon River, Iguassu
Falls and Rio de Janeiro and will take
place in June. Pat has already raised
£22,000 from members of the
solicitors' profession, friends,
acquaintances and the public in
general. He would like to thank all
those who have contributed. Anyone
else who would like to sponsor Pat in
his endeavour should contact him at:
Pat O'Connor & Son, Market Street,
Swinford, Co. Mayo. Tel: 094 51333,
Fax: 094 23930.
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Estates of Deceased
Social Wel fare
Assistance Recipients
Solicitors who are acting on behalf of
the personal representatives of deceased
social welfare assistance recipients, are
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reminded of the provisions of Section
280 (1) of the Social Welfare
j
(consolidation) Act 1993 which places a I
requirement on the personal
:
representative of deceased social
j
welfare assistance recipients to notify
the Department of their intention to
distribute the estate and to provide the
Minister with a copy of the schedule of
the assets of the estate. See also insert in
Gazette.
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