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personal injuries and the Council was asked to
decide whether any conflict of interest arises which
would prevent member from accepting instructions
from the passenger. The Council on a report from a
committee stated that a conflict of interest does arise
and that member, having acted for the driver and
owner ofthe car, cannot now accept instructions from
the passenger to proceed against his former client.
CONVEYANCING PRACTICE
EXCHANGE OF CONTRACTS
The Council advised members in the Society's
Ga2ette (May 1960) that contracts for sale ofproperty
should be engrossed in duplicate and that a copy
executed by the vendor should be exchanged for a
copy executed by the purchaser, the latter being
accompanied by a cheque for the deposit in favour
of the vendor's solicitor, where appropriate according
to the terms of the contract. A case has been brought
to the notice of the Council in which it appears that
a serious loss may have been incurred as the result
of the failure of the vendor's solicitor to have the
contract signed by his client. The contract in that
case was accompanied by a cheque for a substantial
deposit which was paid in the normal course by the
drawer's bank. The Council again bring this matter
to the attention of members as one of urgency
and advise that an invariable practice should be
adopted of obtaining a signed contract in exchange
for the deposit just as a duly executed conveyance
or transfer is required on completion in exchange
for the balance of the purchase money.
EXAMINATION RESULTS
At the Book-keeping examination for apprentices
to solicitors held on the zist June the following
candidates passed with merit:—
i. David Cox, Richard V. Lovegrove; 2. Felicity M.
Foley, Enda P. O'Carroll, B.C.L.;
3. George G.
Mullan, B.C.L., James F. O'Higgins, William B. R.
E. Somerville, B.A.;
4. James Heney, Brendan
O'Mahony.
Passed:
John B. Bailey, Marguerite Joyce Boland,
Niall P. Connolly, Francis D. Daly, B.C.L., Catherine
P. V. Doyle, Michael Farrell, Mary M. Harvey,
B.C.L., Eugene P. Hunt, B.A., John B.D. Lacy,
B.C.L., Kiernan McDermott, Patrick J. McMahon,
B.C.L., Anna M. O'Shea, B.C.L., Gordon J. Ross,
Gerald B. Sheedy, Brian A. F. Woodcock.
29 candidates attended ; 24 passed.
At examinations held on the 9th July, 1965 under
the Solicitors Act 1954 the following candidates
passed :
First examination in Irish:
Mary Judith Baily,
Lewis Eric Citron, Kevin P. A. Deane, Terence E.
Dixon, Anthony Dunleavy, Anselm A. Enright,
Ernest B. Farrell, Michael Foy, Denis G. Hipwell,
Charles A. Kelly, Martin A. Kennedy, Michael
Larkin, James M. Molloy, Mary Murphy, James A.
McCarthy, William C. McCormick, Aldan
J.
McNulty, Brian P. O'Beirne, Elizabeth A. Purcell,
Louise Ryan, Francis E. Sowman, Paul B. Smithwick,
Finbar Twohig.
25 candidates attended : 23 passed.
Second Examination in Irish :
Fergus F. Armstrong,
John B. Baily, Albert D. E. Burke, Niall P. Connolly,
David Cox, Catherine P. V. Doyle, Thomas F.
Figgis, Paul D. Guinness, James Heney, George G.
Mullan, Donal T. McAuliffe, Brendan O'Mahony,
Michael J. O'Shea, Gerald B. Sheedy, W. B. R. B.
Somerville, Brian G. McD. Taylor.
16 candidates attended : 16 passed.
S.I. No. 163 of 1965
THE SOLICITORS' ACCOUNTS (AMEND
MENT) REGULATIONS, 1965
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland in
exercise of the powers conferred on them by sections
4, 5, 66 and 71 of the Solicitors Act 1954 and of every
other power thereunto them enabling and with the
concurrence of the President of the High Court
hereby make the following regulations.
1. These regulations may be cited as the Solicitors'
Accounts (Amendment) Regulations 1965 and shall
come into operation on the 22nd day of July 1965
and shall be read as one with the Solicitors' Accounts
Regulations 1955 to 1961 and shall so far as they are
inconsistent therewith alter and amend the same.
In these regulations
the term "the Principal
Regulations" means the Solicitors' Accounts Regula
tions 1955 (S.I. No. 218 of 1955).
2. The Solicitors' Accounts Regulations 1955 to
1961 and these regulations may be cited together as
the Solicitors'Accounts Regulations 1955 to 1965.
3. The Interpretation Act 1937 applies to these
regulations in the same manner as it applies to an
Act of the Oireachtas except in so far as it may be
inconsistent with the Solicitors Acts 1954 and 1960
or these regulations.
4. (i) Regulation 2 of the Principal Regulations