250 / 364
(5) Considering
requisitions on
title,
settling
answers thereto and approving draft conveyance
on behalf of vendor.
(a) Where counsel has not settled the contract
or conditions of sale :
Such fee as shall be
appropriate having regard to the scale set out
at (1) above.
(b) Where counsel has settled the contract or
conditions of sale :
£5-5-0.
(6) Settling any deed :
£6-6-0.
Note—
The above fees are
minimum
fees and
apply only in simple cases.
The existence of any of the circumstances set
out below justify charging a fee in addition to
that chargeable under the foregoing scale :
1. Difficulty in the title.
2. The perusal of an unusual number of docu
ments.
3. Absence of proper abstract or precis of title.
4. Furnishing of original documents or copies in
a form other than typewritten copies.
5. The time within which the work is required to
be completed.
EXAMINATION RESULTS
At examinations held in July under The Solici
tors Act 1965 the following candidates passed.
Second Examination in Irish :
James S. Baylor,
Maeve T. Ua Donnchadha, Robert M. Flynn,
John McMahon Glynn, Anthony T. Hanahoe,
James Houlihan, Michael J. A. Kelly, Brian J.
Magee, Angela M. Sweetman. Nine candidates
attended; nine passed.
First Examination in Irish :
Anthony T. Burke,
David Seymour Cresswell, Deirdre Dargan, Eileen
Mary Doyle, Hugh Duff, Patrick D. Fitzpatrick,
Terence Grant, James J. M. Green, Edmund D,
Hickcy, Francis Hickey, Thomas J. Kelly, Diar-
muid A. Kilcullen, Thomas A. Murphy, Roger
W. A. McGinley, B.A., Peter J. G. McKenna,
Jacinta Noonan, J. M. Stephanie O'Connor, Joan
O'Mahony, Thomas W. Vance, James O. Walsh.
Twenty-one candidates attended; twenty passed.
Hook-keeping Examination :
Albert D. E. Burke,
Ann M. Goady, Maeve T. Ua Donnchadha, T.
F. Figgis, John M. Fitzpatrick, Robert M. Flynn,
Garrett Gill, Derek H. Grcenlee, Paul D. Guinness,
Anthony T. Hanahoe, Elizabeth A. Heffernan,
Pamela F. Hussey, Mary Garmel Kelly, Michael
J. A. Kelly, Patrick J. Kevans, Joseph Molony,
Paul M. McLaughlin, Michael McMenamin,
Donnchadha O Buachalla, Michael O'Shea, Simon
G. K. Quick, Angela M. Sweetman, Jonathan
Thompson.
Twenty-six
candidates
attended;
twenty-three passed.
LEGAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING
The current issue of the
Journal of the Society
of Public Teachers of Law
contains a comprehen
sive survey by Professor J. F. Wilson of Southamp
ton University of legal education in the United
Kingdom. It is worth recording that, of the 1,250
solicitors who replied to the questionnaire which
Professor Wilson sent out as an insertion to the
Law Society's Gazette, 53 per cent thought that
existing facilities for legal education were inade
quate and "it soon becomes evident
that
the
major problem existing in the minds of solicitors
was the provision of an adequate system of train
ing in articles". Making every allowance for the
fact that this method of accessing public opinion
is unsatisfactory, and that the tendency is for the
dissatisfied to speak and for the satisfied to stand
mute, the investigation provides substantial sup
port for the concern which the Council of the
Law Society have felt for several years. It is a pity
that we have not yet had the views of the Council
on the report of Sir Arthur Driver's Special Com
mittee, that too many people and bodies have
fingers in the pie without enough co-ordination
between them. The time has come for someone on
a high
level
to grip
the situation.
(Solicitors'
Journal,
8/7/1966).
COMMISSIONERS OF CHARITABLE
DONATIONS AND BEQUESTS
The Commission will hold a vacation meeting
on the 6th September 1966.
JOINT SEMINAR, CORK, 1966
Held Jointly by
the General Council of Provincial
Solicitors and the Society of Young Solicitors with the
co-operation
and
assistance
of
the
Southern
Law
Association
The Second Joint Seminar will be held in Cork
in the Imperial Hotel, South Mall, on Saturday
and Sunday the 22nd and 23rd of October 1966.
The programme is as follows :
Saturday, 2.45 p.m. :
Succession Act
by William
Maguire, Solicitor.
Sunday, 10.15 a.m. :
Reversionary Leases and
Ground Rents Acquisition
by His Honour Judge
Conroy.
Sunday, 2.15 p.m. :
Town Planning Practice
by
Brendan Kiernan, B.L., Legal Adviser to the De
partment of Local Government.
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