The Gazette 1964/67

Thompson.

Twenty-six

candidates

attended;

(5) Considering 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 requisitions on title,

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. 32