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within the meaning of section
66
of the Solicitors
Act 1954 and the Solicitors Accounts Regulations
195 5-61 is restricted to the associated clearing banks.
DECEMBER 3RD :
Mr. Collins and afterwards Mr.
Maher in the chair, also present Messrs. Ralph J.
Walker, Thomas A. O'Reilly, James R. C. Green,
Eunan McCarron, Peter D. M. Prentice, Gerald Y.
Goldberg, George G. Overend, George A. Nolan,
John Carrigan, Niall S. Gaffney, Francis J. Lanigan,
John Maher, Patrick Noonan, Thomas H. Bacon,
Augustus Cullen, Francis Armstrong, Peter E.
O'Connell, William A. Osborne, Daniel J. O'Connor,
Joseph P. Black, Desmond J. Moran, James W.
O'Donovan, Robert McD. Taylor, Brendan A.
McGrath, Raymond A. French, John J. Nash,
Gerard M. Doyle, Reginald J. Nolan.
The following was among the business transacted :
Election of President and Vice-Presidents,
1964-65
Mr. John Maher, Dublin, was elected President.
Messrs. Robert McD. Taylor, Drogheda, and Eunan
McCarron, Dublin, were elected Vice-Presidents.
The Incorporated Council of Law Reporting
Correspondence received from the Department of
Justice on the subject of the reorganisation of the
work of law reporting was considered. It is proposed
that additional financial resources will be provided
to facilitate the speedy production of law reports
and the reorganisation of the work of the Council
towards that end. The Society's representatives on
the Council were instructed accordingly.
Succession Bill 1964
The Council approved a statement for submission
to the Minister of Justice and publication dealing
with parts IX and X of the Bill.
Extraordinary members of the Council
The Council made the following appointments on
nominations by the Dublin Solicitors' Bar Associa
tion, The Southern Law Association, and
the
Incorporated Law Society of Northern Ireland :
The Dublin Solicitors' Bar Association :
Messrs.
Rory J. O'Connor, Richard Knight and Gerard
M. Doyle.
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The Southern Law Association;
J. I. Morgan,
G. J. Moloney, C. J. Daly, J. B. Jermyn, and
J. F. Foley.
The Incorporated Law Society of Northern
Ireland :
E. Malachy Doris, J. Owen Wylie,
Robert V. Gregson, Frederick H. Mullan,
Brian McK. McGuigan.
Trade Union Act 1941. Excepted body status
The Council considered correspondence received
from the Department of Industry and Commerce
intimating that the Minister is not disposed on the
case submitted to grant the Society's application
for excepted body status to enable the Society to
negotiate wages and conditions of service for
solicitors in the local government and other public
services without obtaining a trade union negotiating
licence. It was decided to make further representa
tions to the Minister and to ask him to receive a
deputation.
PRACTISING CERTIFICATES 1965/66
AND MEMBERS' SUBSCRIPTIONS
1. Members are reminded that practising certifi
cates for the year to end 5th January, 1966 should
be taken out on or after 6th January, 1965, and not
later than 5th February, 1965, in order to operate
as a qualification to practise from January 6th.
2. Under the provisions of the Solicitors Acts,
1954-60, the declaration to be lodged with the Society
on applying for a practising certificate shall be com
pleted and signed by the applkant personally unless
the Registrar on the grounds of illness or some other
sufficient cause dispenses with personal signature of
the declaration. Declaration
forms have
been
mailed by the Society to solicitors who held practising
certificates for the practice year 1964-65. They should
be completed and delivered to the Society by appli
cants in person or their Dublin agents. Under the
provisions of the Solicitors Acts, 1954-60, the
Society is not entitled to accept declarations sent
in by post.
3. Members' subscriptions for the year 1965-66
are payable on January 6th. A receipt for the sub
scription will be issued with the practising certificate.
4. The composite amount of the Compensation
Fund contribution registration fee and membership
subscription is as follows :—
Solicitors admitted three years or more on January
6th: Dublin £22 ; Country £19.
Solicitors admitted less than three years on January
6th: Dublin £i i IDS.; Country £8 los.