The Gazette 1909-10

THE GAZETTE OF THE of

April, 1910.

Vol. Ill, No. 10.]

T FOR CIRCULATION L AMONGST MEMBERS.

Bye-Laws. A report

Meetings of the Council.

from the Special Committee appointed to consider the resolutions of the November ^General Meeting relative to Membership of the Society was considered, and its further consideration was adjourned till next meeting. Solicitors' Acts Amendment Bill. A report was submitted from the Parlia mentary Committee upon a Bill to amend the Solicitors Acts, introduced upon 2-ith February by Captain Craig, M.P., and Mr. Thomas Corbett, M.P. The report stated that the Bill provides for the following amendments of the existing English and Irish Solicitors Acts—(1) That any person who takes by examination the University degree of LL.B. and who produces to the Incor porated Law Society satisfactory evidence of having been clerk for three years in a Solicitor's office, may be admitted a Solicitor ; (2) that any person who for twelve years, subsequent to his attaining eighteen years of age, has been bona fide engaged as clerk in a Solicitor's office, transacting the business usually transacted by Solicitors, and who produces to the Incorporated Law Society satisfactory evidence of such clerkship, may, upon passing the Final Examination, be admitted a Solicitor ; (3) a right of appeal against the decision of the Incorporated Law Society under the two previous clauses; (4) that contracts of service between the persons admissible to the profession under the Bill and their employers need not be in writing, and, if in writing, should be liable to sixpence duty, or, if under seal, to ten shillings duty.

March Wi. Royal Commission on Divorce.

Tt was decided to ascertain whether the Royal Commission on Divorce included an inquiry into the working of matrimonial law in Ireland. Dublin County Court Bar Association. An application for permission to hold the annual meeting of the Dublin County Court Bar Association in the Lecture Theatre of the Irish Land Commission stating that, while every facility will be afforded to the Solicitor for the vendor, or other person interested, to inspect the draft certificate as to the percentage referred to in the Provisional Rules of the 26th January, and to take extracts, the Commissioners could not comply with the request of the Council to furnish a duplicate of the certifi cate to the vendor or his Solicitor, which in many instances will be a document of con siderable dimensions. It was decided to ask the Commissioners to receive a deputation from the Council, consisting of the President and Vice- Presidents, to discuss this matter. Certificate. An application by a Solicitor for liberty to renew his annual certificate was considered and granted. the Society was granted. Land Commission Rules. A letter was read, in reply, from the Secretary of