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GAZETTE
SELECTED STATUTORY
I NS TRUMENTS
158/1995 EC (Term of Protection of
Copyright) Regulations,
1995.
Harmonises
the term of
protection
of copyright
of
literary, dramatic,
musical
and artistic works at the
lifetime of the author and a
period of 70 years after the
author's death, in
accordance
with
Council
Directive
93/98/EEC
184/1995 Finance Act, 1994
(Commencement of
Sections 93 and 96 (a))
Order, 1995
Gives effect to
section 4A,
Value-Added
Tax Act, 1972.
Those
provisions
relate to the
treatment of VA T
. chargeable
on
long-term
lettings of
developed
property.
Came into effect
on 7 July.
1995.
188/1995 Housing (Sale of Houses)
Regulations, 1995
Governs the sale by housing
authorities
of
tenanted
dwellings
to tenants.
189/1995 Employment Regulation
Order (Law Clerks Joint
Labour Committee), 1995
Made by the Labour
Court
on the recommendation
of
the Law Clerks Joint
Labour
Committee,
fixes
statutory
minimum rates of pay and
regulates
statutory
conditions
of employment
as
from 1 August, 1995, for
certain workers employed
in
solicitors'
offices.
Margaret
Byrne
Librarian
Mrs. O' - A Tribute
Law Books for Tanzania
The Chief Justice of Tanzania on a
recent visit to the Law Society
expressed an interest in receiving
textbooks for Tanzanian lawyers.
Would any interested firm who may be
weeding out superseded editions of
textbooks please send a list of the books
in the first instance to:
Margaret
Byrne,
Librarian, the Law Society of Ireland,
Blackhall Place, Dublin 7.
F a x : 01 - 6 7 7 0511.
It is hard to comprehend that Mrs. O '
is now retiring after forty-nine years
o f service with the Society, of which
she has been so much a part for so
long. For most of us who entered the
| profession between 1946 and 1978 the
recollections of our student days are
| inextricably linked with the O ' Re i l l ys
- Willie and Dymphna. During that
thirty-two year period that they (and
for part, their solicitor son, Brian)
lived in Solicitors Buildings (Four
Courts), Willie was the warden and
Dymphna was the 'materfamilias' to
i all who attended there for meetings of
the Solicitors Apprentices Debating
Society ( SADS I ). Their sitting room
in the basement was a Speaker's
Corner/ Bewleys/Las Vegas all rolled
into one.
On the move to the newly renovated
Blackhall Place premises in 1978,
t Dymphna took on the role of 'minder'
of the many overnight guests who
stayed there, a role she continued
even after Willie sadly passed away in
November 1993.
Now after nearly fifty years of
association with the Society,
Dymphna has decided that it is time
for her to retire. In her retirement, she
will be sustained by the certain
knowledge that she has the affection
of everyone in the solicitors'
profession who had the honour and
pleasure of knowing her. The plaque
on the ex-auditors' board erected in
their honour in the Blackhall Place
lecture hall will give permanent
recognition both to the status of the
O ' Re i l l ys as the only two honorary
auditors of S AD SI and to their
significance in the lives and memories
o f so many of us.
Thanks, Mrs. O!
MVOM
Mrs. O'Reilly's (written) response
to Law Society presentation
"In all sincerity I am overwhelmed by
your generosity. For what's left of my
life be it long or short, I'll have so
many memories.
Willie and I never considered money,
in the little we did do for you - you
were our children and we did it for
love. Mick [O 'Mahony] and Andy
[Smyth] will agree - the Law Society
| was more sombre and conventional by
the time Cillian [MacDomhnaill]
arrived.
Helen [Kirwan-Davitt] claims you
people were unique and we'll never
see your like again, and I agree with
j
her. It was the age of innocence. Max
[Neville], seeing Jim O ' K e e f fe with
his arm on a shelf in the Library was
I afraid he had it around Maura Simons
[Roche].
Larry [Branigan] breaking it off with
i
Nessa [Gibbons-Doyle] because the
! Equity Examiner (the S AD SI Annual
Scandal Magazine) said they were
studying matrimonial procedures in
the Library. The Bruce [Blake], Grace
[Hanna-Blake], Helen [Kirwan-
Davitt] triangle and Helen weeping on
Andy's shoulder.
Mi c k 's loyalties were divided on
Monday nights. Stay to entertain the
chairman and guests or join the
poker game in No. 3 Consultation
Room. Being Mick there was no
dereliction of duty - he looked after
his guests and saw them safely off
the premises.
I hope to be back in Manor Place in a
month to six weeks - Beaumont who
have been so good to me have
promised me a home help and of
course I have my best friend,
Margaret, next door.
Give my sincere thanks and love to
the Council and tell them how grateful
I am."
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