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require an applicant from an country other
than Canada to write special examinations
in Substantive Law. These are usually ex
aminations on land title system which is
based on the Torrens system and on Can
adian constitutional law. Solicitors who have
been in practise in England for three years
prior to making their application in Alberta
are not required to serve under articles but
are required to write all the various exam
inations.
(7) Nova Scotia: The Qualification Committee
of
the Nova Scotia Barristers' Society is
governed by the provisions of the Barristers
and Solicitors Act, Ch. 19 R.R.N.S. 1954
and Amendments and Regulations made
thereunder. On admission to the Bar an
individual is entitled to practice both as
a barrister and solicitor. It is necessary that
an applicant prove that he was in active
practice preceding his application for any
length of time as a solicitor in any of Her
Majesty's Superior Courts
of England,
Northern Ireland, a State of Australia, New
Zealand, or as a law agent in Scotland, or
as a solicitor in the Republic of Ireland.
(8) New Brunswick: It would appear that all
that is necessary for any solicitor to be trans
ferred from practice in Ireland to practice
in New Brunswick is to take the necessary
examinations and pay the required fees.
MASTERS AND APPRENTICES
The Society frequently receives enquiries from
prospective apprentices seeking the names of solic
itors who would be willing to act as their masters.
The number of enquiries received in the Dublin
area is particularly marked and with a view to
facilitating both masters and apprentices the Soc
iety are anxious to maintain lists of solicitors :
(a) Who are willing to accept apprentices;
(b) Who require assistant solicitors;
(c) Who require employment either as assist
ants or with a view to prospective partner
ship.
The lists are required for reference only—not
recommendation.
SALARIED SOLICITORS' GROUP
The formation of an Association to be known
as the "Salaried Solicitors' Group" has been an
nounced. Membership is confined to solicitors of
the State, Commercial Enterprises, Banks, Local
Authorities, Statutory Bodies
and Semi-State
Bodies who shall be members of the Incorporated
Law Society of Ireland. The objects of the Group
are to promote the welfare of members, advance
their interests and privileges and to consult from
time
to
time on matters of professional and
mutual interest for the better discharge of their
duties and to uphold the rights and privileges of
the profession.
The following officers were elected for 1966 at
a General Meeting of the Group which was largely
attended and which was addressed by the Presi
dent of the Incorporated Law Society, Mr. Robert
McD. Taylor :
Chairman, Brendan A. McGrath; Hon. Secre
tary, Michael J. Leech; Hon. Treasurer, Charles
Hyland
(acting); Committee—Henry Murray,
Patrick Kiely, William S. Conway, E. Rory
O'Connor, Charles Hyland.
The Incorporated Law Society is now a negoti-
ationg body within the Trade Union Act, 1941.
SOCIETY OF YOUNG SOLICITORS
A very well attended ordinary meeting was
held as usual in Buswell's Hotel, Dublin, on 28th
April, 1966, when the President of the District
Court delivered his paper on the Practice of the
District Court. In the course of his address, the
President pointed out
the pitfalls
into which
solicitors
fall when pleading
in
the District
Courts, outlined
inter alia,
the best methods in
which a solicitor should handle an examination
in chief, or a cross-examination of a witness. He
stated that many solicitors are too verbose in
court, and not conversant with their cases when
they go into court. Much time spent in court
could be saved by solicitors pleading on the facts
in
issue, and not by digressing or superfluous
matters.
The lecture was followed by a most lively and
stimulating discussion, in which many salient mat
ters were dealt with.
A
lecture was delivered
in Buswell's Hotel,
Molesworth Street, Dublin, on
the 26th May,
1966, when a Senior Counsel spoke on the Pre
paration and Presentation of a Case for Counsel.
Voting
papers
for
the
elections
of
the
Executive Committee to take office next October
have been sent out. Scrutineers and
time and
place of counting of votes will be announced in
the next issue of the GAZETTE.
The next Joint Seminar to lie held will take
place in Cork on the 22nd/23rd October, 1966