The Gazette 1964/67

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.

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.

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. 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. 60 The following was among the business transacted :