The Gazette 1975

serious consequences of the advocate making a blunder to the detriment of his client, but this is not enough. Students need advice f r om experienced advocates, t o show the method and to teach them how to persuade. I would strongly urge the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland to include in its new currculum, a course of lectures in advocacy: - It would not only be invaluable to the young Solicitor's confidence, in starting practice, but it would also save him the trouble and dangers of those first few appearances in Court. Remember the mouth of the lawyer together with proper anticipated legal research is one of the tools with which it plies its trade—and there is a motto which would serve us well to remember: - "Please engage brain before putting mouth into motion".—It might well be the motto of some future advocacy class. The Resolution that the best thanks of the Society be given to the Auditor for his address, was proposed by the Hon. Mr. Justice Conroy , President of the Circuit Court, and seconded by Mr. Thomas C. Smyth, barrister, and passed unanimously. The Resolution that the Debating Society is worthy of the support of Solicitors' Apprentices, the Council of the Society and of the Solicitors' profession, was proposed by Mr. Andrew F. Smyth, solicitor, and passed unanimously. The President, having thanked the speakers, then adjourned the meeting.

Finally witness turned to the barrister and very politely asked "wig, where did you get the idiot?" The justice would have held the witness in contempt had he been able to stop his own hysterical laughter. Never d o we witness contempt by the judge himself for obvious reasons. Plaintiff approached the bench as it appeared that he was not receiving the attention he felt his case deserved. The Justice asked him why he was here, to which he replied, "I came here to see Justice done." Quick as a flash the grey-haired old devil replied: "Justice Dunne, shur he's away on holidays and won't be back until next we e k !" Of course many books have been written on famous legal submissions and addresses, one particularly amus- ing address I came across in my research, went like this: Counsel began: "It is my intention to prove to this Jury that my client was not present when the killing took place that it was not his intention to injure the woman when, he struck her with an iron bar and held her head under the stream, and finally that she richly deserved her fate at the hands of this man." You have heard, how to d o it, and how not to do it, but most of us learn this by experience. Would it then not be earier, for the young barrister or young sol i d tor on his first appearance in Court, at his first interview between Solicitor and Client? The Solicitors Apprentices Debating Society of Ireland and other debating societies try to make up for what the educational bodies have not provided. The Societies provide the hard school of experience without the

2 DAY SEMINAR ON CAPITAL TAXATION CORK, 11-12 JULY, DUBLIN, 18-19 JULY, DAY 1 DAY 2

9.00 a.m. : Registration. 9.30/10.30: Capital Gains Ta x: Principles and Com- putations and Exemptions. Speaker•' Norman Bale, Tax Consultant. 10.30: Morning Coffee. 11.30/12.00: Capital Gains Tax: Transitional and anti Avoidance Provisions. Speaker: Norman Bale, Tax Consultant. 12.00/12.45: Capital Gains Tax and Probate and Trusts -.Speaker: Houghton Fry, Solicitor. 12.45/2.15: Lunch. 2 1 5 / 3 . 0 0: Capital Gains Tax and Conveyancing: Speaker: Joseph Dundon, Solicitor. 3 . 0 0 / / 3 . 45 Capital Gains Tax and Companies: Speaker: Houghton Fry, Solicitor. 3.45 Afternoon Tea. 4 . 1 5 / 5 . 3 0: Panel: Discussion and Questions.

9.30/10.30: The Weatly Ta x: Speaker: Robert

Johns-

ton, Solicitor. 10.30: Morning Coffee.

11.00/12.00: Capital Acquisition Ta x: Principles Gifts and Inheritances Computations and Returns. Speaker: Joseph O'Broin, Chartered Accountant. 12.00/1.00: Capital Acquisitions Ta x: Valuations Trusts Appeals. Speaker: Colin Chapman, Solicitor. 1.00/2.30: Lunch. 2 . 3 0 / 3 . 3 0: Capital Acquisitions Tax' Exemptions Inter- action with Capital Transfer Tax Practical Problems. Speaker: William B. Somerville, Solicitor. 3.30: Afternoon Tea. 4 . 0 0 / 5 . 1 5: Panel: Discussion and Questions. NOTE-—Lecture Scripts in respect of the Capital Gains Tax lectures will be sent on or before 4th July 1975 to each participant at the address set out opposite. All other scripts will be circularised at the seminar. Scripts and copies of the Bills or Acts should be brought to the Seminar by each participant. Please note copies or Acts will not be supplied at the Seminar. 168