The Gazette 1974

FREE LEGAL AID CENTRES

Statistics: April

to January 1974 (4) (5)

Centre

(6)

(7)

(1)

(2)

Contract

29 94 16 60 23 15 37 23 49

61

104 128

30 50 25 98

"(8 per cent) (18 per cent) (5 per cent) (30 per cent) (9 per cent) (7 per cent) (4 per cent) (4 per cent) (4 per cent) (11 per cent)

40

276 609 171

7

5

Crime

198

112

15

12

Hire-Purchase

53

48

4

4

21 99 95 33 51 14 40 61

Interpersonal Relations Landlord and Te n a nt

400

146

59 27 15

24

1027 330 234

201

35 84 20 17 56

88 60 32 49 26 65

23 13

2 6

Miscellaneous

Probate Property

128 127 156 386

8 2 6

2 3 3

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5

Social Welfare

2

To rt

48

13

8

142 785

Totals

146

70

746

587

807

303

3444

Directors (1) Nicholas Butler (2) Randall Doherty (3) John Finlay (4) Alan Shatter (5) Daragh Buckley (6) Aideen Byrne (7) Brian Sheridan

Centres (1) Molesworth Street (746) (2) Rialto (587) (3) Ballyfermot (785)

(4) Crumlin (807) (5) Ballymun (303) (6) Monkstown (146) (7) Finglas (70)

Landlord and Te n a nt cases now make up 9 per cci» 1 of all cases compared with 13 per cent to July 1972- This is the only category where the percentage h ^ dropped by 4 per cent whereas all others remain s i m i D ' to the percentages recorded in the FLAG report, apad from Interpersonal Relations which has risen 4 per cent- Directors have mentioned to me that sometimes a case may fall into two or even three categories and ll is then difficult to decide under which heading to fi' c the case. For instance, a case involving a marital pute could also include landlord and tenant and socia' welfare problems, if a wife wished to have the Corpoi* ation flat in which she and her family were living' transferred into her name from that of her husband and at the same time might qualify for social welfare benefit- This has got to be borne in mind in any intei" pretation of the statistics, but the problem is not ne\ v as the same difficulty arose in relation to all othe' statistics obtained from the centres, nonetheless tin* factor should be taken into account.

Comment on Statistics Th e statistics from the largest centre, Moun t j oy Square, have not been included in the above Table. Due to the loss of the original book in which records of cases dealt with were kept the figures from July 1973 to October 1973 are not available. However, up to the middle of July, the number of cases dealt with in this centre amounted to 1435. As the case loads in all but one centre have doubled since July 1972, it is reason- able to assume that at the very least, Mountjoy Square has dealt with 2000 cases to date. Th e present Director reports that 30 new cases per night is not unusual. This means that between the eight centres, since April 1969, five and a half thousand cases have been worked on. T h e Interpersonal Relations category accounts for 30 per cent of the cases and thus remains far above all other categories. Molesworth Street alone has received 400 such cases to date as compared with 176 up to the end of July 1972.

CORRESPONDENCE

Allied Irish Banks Limited

Undertaking

presented, has led to considerable misunderstanding ant' unnecessary confusion among solicitors in relation t() the completion of the usual form of accountable receipt- Ma ny solicitors seem to have got the impression frof 1 the article that there is something unique in the forfl 1 of accountable receipt used by Allied Irish Banks Ltd- and that it is objectionable in certain respects. I woul d hasten to assure solicitors that this is not the case. The present form has been in use for many years, not onb by the banks but by other lending institutions, insui' 100

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