The Gazette 1907-8

[JAN., 1908

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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mittee to consider the clause in the Dublin Corporation Bill, 1908, relative to increasing the jurisdiction of the Court of Conscience. The Council adjourned until I5th January.

Committee for adoption by the Council under bye-law 43, were considered, and amendments made therein, and, as amended, were adopted. The Council adjourned for one week.

Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :—

The Council met upon Wednesday, the nth December, 1907. The President (Mr. George H. Lyster) in the Chair, and twenty-seven other members present. Affidavits in support of applications by three solicitors for their first certificates to practise were submitted, and orders made granting same. A petition of a Law Clerk seeking to be bound under section 16 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, was referred to the Court of Examiners to deal with. In reference to the recent appointment of two barristers to the office of Examiner of Title in the Irish Land Commission, the following Resolution was passed, and was directed to be sent to the Board of the Irish Land Commission :— ', .J: " RESOLVED—The Council of the Incor porated Law Society of Ireland observe with regret that in appointing to the recent vacancies in the office of Examiner of Title in the Irish Land Commission, the claims of the solicitors' profession to that office have been entirely ignored, notwithstanding repeated promises that such claims would receive consideration. " The Council observe that the practice of appointing from the Bar, which has been adopted for the past twenty-five year?, has been continued in the present instance, not withstanding the fact that the Board of the Irish Land Commission had before them applications from members of the solicitors' profession, full)' qualified and competent to discharge the duties of the office." A memorandum was received from the Lord Chancellor, appointing seven members of the Council to be the Statutory Committee, under section 34 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, for year ending a6th November, 1908. The Court of Examiners and Committees of the Council for year ending the 26th November, 1908, were nominated. A Special Committee was appointed to consider and report to the Council what amendments (if any) in the bye-laws of the Society should be submitted to the Society for adoption. It was referred to the Parliamentary Com­

January i^th and zgth. February izth and 26th.

Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during December:— Costs, 13th. Court of Examiners, I3th.

Parliamentary, zoth. County Courts, 3rd. Parliamentary, 3oth.

Statutory Committee.

THE to section 34 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, appointed the following seven members of the Council of the Society to be the Statutory Committee for year ending a6th day of November, 1908 :•—Sir A. F. Baker, Mr. Fry, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Lynch, Mr. Lyster, Sir George Roche, and Mr. Stanuell. Lord Chancellor has, pursuant

New Members. THE following have joined the Society during December:—

Liston, Terence J., Rathkeale. Overend, George A., Dublin. Sandes, William H., Gorey.

Commissioner for Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor, in December, 1907, appointed the following to be a commissioner to administer oaths :—Samuel C. Johnston, Assistant to Clerk of Peace, Omagh.'