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O'Driscoll, Aiveen M.
J. Smith, Stephen T.
Strong,
Jonathan
P.
Thompson
(B.A. [Mod.]
D.P.A.).
31
candidates attended; 16 passed
The O'Connor Memorial Prize was awarded
to William O. H. Fry (B.A.).
THE THIRD LAW EXAMINATION
The following candidates passed:
Passed with Merit
Enda P. O'Carroll (B.C.L., LL.B).
Passed
Marguerite Joyce Boland (B.C.L.), Ann M. T.
Coady (B.C.L.), David Cox (B.C.L.), Catherine
P. V. Doyle (B.C.L.), Michael Farrell (B.G.L.),
Joseph G. Finnegan
(B.C.L., LL.B.), Felicity
Mary Foley, Paul D. Guinness
(B.A.),
John
B. Harte, Richard Lovegrove, Brian J. Magee,
George G. Mullan (B.C.L.), Oliver D. McArdle,
Donal T. McAuliffe, Kieran McDermott, Bren-
dan J. McDonnell, Francis J. O. McGuinness
(B.A., B.C.L., H.Dip. in Ed.), Brendan O'Mahony,
Gerald B. Sheedy
(B.C.L.), William B. R. B.
Somerville
(B.A., Mod.), Angela M. Sweetman
(B.G.L.), John J. Tully.
32 candidates attended; 23 passed.
On the combined results of the Second and
Third Law Examinations
the Council has
awarded
special
Certificates
to
Enda
P.
O'Carroll
(B.C.L., LL.B.) and Joseph G.
Finnegan (B.C.L., LL.B.).
THE PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION
The
following candidates passed :
Anthony
Brady, Vivienne Byrnes, Mary C. A. Carey,
Damien F. Cassidy, Andrew Dillon, Patrick Fitz-
patrick, Siubhain A. M. Gavin, Olivia C. Ward.
16 candidates attended; 8 passed.
By Order,
ERIC A. PLUNKETT,
Secretary
Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts,
Dublin, 7.
29th September, 1966.
INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION
The eleventh biennial conference of the Inter
national Bar Association, recently held at Laus
anne, was attended by representatives from the
United States, Europe, and Australasia. The
Society was represented by the President, Mr. R.
McD. Taylor, with Messrs. Patrick O'Donnell,
Vice President, John Carrigan, Henry W. Mc-
Cormack and Eric A. Plunkett, Secretary.
The estimated attendance at the conference,
including wives of participants, was about eleven
hundred. Most European capitals are very well
organised for a conference of this kind and the
governments, or municipalities, have built con
ference headquarters in many cities which are
fully equipped for working sections with large
numbers of participants.
There is considerable competition between mem
ber countries
to attract IBA conferences with
govermental or local support with a realisation
of the valuable tourist and economic potential of
meetings of this kind.
Members from thirty-seven countries attended
the Lausanne Conference, comprising a represent
ative cross section of the lawyers of the world.
This afforded valuable opportunities of comparing
the legal systems of common law in continental
countries.
The following were among the topics discussed
at the conference :—
Restrictions on Lawyers against practicing in
their Jurisdictions
The answers to a questionnaire circulated, and
the discussion at the meeting, revealed a con
siderable variation, ranging from a
fairly all-
embracing monopoly with only a limited legal
exception (Germany)
to monopolies which are
restricted for example to appearances in certain
courts, conveyancing and the preparation of legal
documents
(England,
Ireland,
France,
the
Netherlands) and even the entire absence of any
monopoly (Finland and Sweden).
In the latter
case members of the bar are distinguished from
laymen who engage in legal practice mainly by
their exclusive right to the title of advocate or
lawyer, or whatever other title is borne by mem
bers of the profession. This however, does not
imply that a foreign lawyer could easily set up
practice in these countries.
The discussion on the topic revealed the serious
concern in a number of continental countries about
the activities of American law firms, who set up
offices in Europe. Such offices may be established
for the purpose of advising American citizens on
continental law. European lawyers are however,
understandably concerned about a practice of
American firms, which is becoming more com
mon, of establishing offices in continental capitals,
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