The Gazette 1907-8

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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[JULY, 1907

John W. Diamond. 12. Alfred E. M'Connell, B.A., ' Cantab. 14. Jeremiah O'Leary. 15. John S. Weir, B.A., T.C.D. 16. Andrew M. Harper. 17. John R. Palmer. 18. James C. M'Cleery, junior. 19. John B. Brown, B.A., T.C.D. 20. Robert C. Bannister. 21. Robert H. K. Clay. 22. John Hannigan, junior.

Book-keeping. — A Lawyer's Manual of Book-keeping, by H. Huges-Onslow, Solicitor, published by Messrs. Butterworth and Co., London, is a work which is recommended by the Council to apprentices.

Equal.

Legal Appointments.

(Members who receive legal appointments are requested to communicate particulars for insertion.'] SOLICITOR TO THE ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. MR. Thomas Maitland Gerrard has been appointed Solicitor to the Royal College of Surgeons of Ireland, in succession to Mr. Edward D. MacLaughlin, appointed Chief Clerk to the Lord Chancellor. Mr. Gerrard served his apprenticeship to Mr. Charles Daly, was admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1895, and practises in partnership with Mr. Daly, under the title of Gerrard and Company, at 25 Westmoreland Street, Dublin; and at' Drogheda. New Commissioners to administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the fol lowing to be Commissioners to administer Oaths :— William Boyd, Clerk of Petty Sessions, Longford. Edmond John Mitchell, Clerk of Petty Sessions, Hospital, Co. Limerick. Patrick T. J. O'Grady, Tuam. New Member of Parliament. MR. James C. R. Lardner, Solicitor, has been elected as Member of Parliament for the Northern Division of County Monaghan. Mr. Lardner, who served his apprenticeship to Mr. D. C. Rush, and with Mr. Henry Murphy, was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1901, and practises in Monaghan.

The Court of Examiners have awarded a Gold Medal to Edward Felton, a Silver Medal to William Frederick M'Coy, and Special Certificates to William J. Uprichard, Thomas E. Conaghan, B.A., R.U.I., John T. Hamerton, and William R. Hodnett. Thirty-three candidates attended examina tion : twenty-two passed, eleven were post poned. Final Examination Subjects. THE Council have decided that at the January, 1908, Final Examination, and at all subse quent Final Examinations, Book-keeping shall be a compulsory subject, and that Candidates may select as between Bankruptcy and Crimi nal Law and Proceedings before Justices, which one of these two subjects they will take; so that at and after the January, 1908, Final Examination the following will be the subjects:— (a) Common Law ; Equity; the Law of Real and Personal Property and Con veyancing. (6) The Practice of the Court of Appeal and of the several divisions of the High Court of Justice, not including Bank ruptcy. (c) The Practice in Lunacy. (d) The Practice of the Purchase and Fair Rent Department of the Irish Land Commission. (e) Practice of the County Court. (/) Book-keeping. (g) Criminal Law, and Proceedings before Justices, or Bankruptcy.