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2 S.C. B. Ass'n News Bull. 1 (1955-1956)

handle is hein.barjournals/tscb0002 and id is 1 raw text is: South Carolina Bar Association NEWS BULLETIN V.. II No. I :306-.3:08 BAPRINCER BLDG.. COLUMBIA, S. C. SiEuEM BM 1955 FUTURE BAR CONVENTIONS TO STARF ON FRIDAYS The annual State conventions of the Bar Associa- tion will hereafter start on Fridays instead of on Thursdays, the Executive Committee decided at its meeting held in Asheville, June 24th, in connection with the Judicial Conference of the Fourth Circuit. The change will go into effect with the 1956 convention to be held in Spartanburg (luring the first week in April. Under the new schedule the convention will begin with registration and buqiness sessions Fiday afternoon andt Saturday morning, and will end with committee meetings on Sunday morning. The banquet will be held Saturday night. The change will reduce the amount of time taken up by the convention (luring the normal work-week and the Executive Committee hopes that it will make possible attendance by a greater number of Association members than in the past. A joint meeting of the Executive Committee and a (ommittee of the Spartanburg Bar Association, con- sisting of Thomnas A. Evins, Chairman. Robert F. Cimnnan, and Samuel N. Burts. was held in Columbia Sel)tember 10 to consider detailed plans for the 1956 convention. Information as to the decisions reached was not available at l)ublication time but Chairman Evins reports that the Spartanburg bar promises that this convention will be the best yet. -SCHA- BAR ASSOCIATION WILL HOLD TWO INSTITUTES THIS YEAR Only two institutes will be held by the Bar Asso- ciation this year insteal of three as in the past. This decision %%as reached by the Executive Committee nt its June 24th Asheville meeting. It is hoped that the re(luction in the number of institutes to be held will result in increased attendance. No lecision has as yet been reached as to the subject for the 'wo institutes to be held this year. A number of topics are under consideration. The Executive Com- mittee and the Committee on Institutes state that the subjects chosen and the scheduled time and place will be announced well in advance to permit all members of tile Association to make plans to attend. -SCBA- SPECIAL APPOINTMENTS MADE BY EXECUTIVE COMMIT1'EE At a meeting held in Asheville on June 24th in con- nection with the Fourth Circuit Judicial Conference, a number of special appointments were made by Presi- dent Mays and the Executive Committee. Thomas H. Pope, of Newberry, was appointed to discuss with Major General L. G. Merritt, Columbia, Director of the Legislative Council and chairman of the Committee on Annual Review of Statutory Law, the question of the best way of getting copies of newly- (Continued on page 4) CALtOUN A. MAYS 6srd President South Carolina Bar Associalion PRESIDENT MAYS SUGGESIS STUDY OF ADOPTION OF FEDERAL RULES FOR USE TN STATE COURTS By PRESIDENT'CALHOUN A. MAYS The question of the desirability of the adoption of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure for use in the state courts of South Carolina is a subject which war- rants the careful study of every lawyer and layman interested in the efficiency of our courts. The present South Carolina code of civil procedure is, in my opinion, a very good )ue, and superior to the rules of federal procedure as they existed prior to the aloption of the new Federal Rules in 1938. The new rules, however, brought the federal practice much more nearly in line with our state practice than had been the case before their adoption and in some respects have improved on our state practice. There is no reason why we should not now follow and adopt such of the new Federal Rules as will improve our state procedure. We could either adopt such of the rules as are definitely superior to our own, or we could adopt all of the federal rules with possibly a few exceptions which would not be applicable or acceptable in the state practice. The latter course would give uniformity of practice in the state and federal courts, which is very much to be desired. Both courts are working to- ward the same end. Why should the rules of practice be different? I suggest that laymen interested in the subject also study the rules. History reveals that the great reforms made from time to time in the Anglo-American system of court procedure were brought about by the efforts of laymen as well as lawyers. Because of the con- (Continued on page 2)

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