The Gazette 1909-10

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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

JULY, 1909]

County Courts Committee. A report was submitted from the County Courts Committee, stating that a deputation from Green Street Sessions Bar, consisting of Mr. T. H. R. Craig, Mr. W. Geoghegan, and Mr. T. J. Furlong, jun., had met the County Courts Committee, and had discussed the Civil Bill Courts (Dublin) Bill, introduced upon the gth inst., in the House of Commons, by Mr. Field, M.P., supported by the three other Members of Parliament for the City of Dublin. The Deputation and Committee agreed that, subject to one amendment by which the President of the Society would be named in the Bill as a consenting party to rules to be made under the Bill when it becomes law, there was no objection to its passing. The Deputation and Committee arranged that the Sessions Bar should further consider the Civil Bill Courts (Dublin) Bill introduced in 1908, with a view to having the Bill ready in autumn, in such a form as to secure the approval of all parties interested in its passage into law. Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :— July 14th and 28th. October 6th and zoth. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during June:— Special Committee re Bankruptcy proce dure, yth and z8th. Gazette, gth. Costs, i ith and 2ist. House, Library, and Finance, I4th. Parliamentary, isth. Land Act, i8th. County Courts, 23rd.

Taxing Office. A letter was read from the Lord Chancellor's Secretary, intimating the intention of His Lordship to appoint a Committee consisting of Mr. de Versan, Registrar of the Chancery Division, the Treasury Remembrancer, and a member of the Society, to report upon the working of the Consolidated Taxing office, and requesting the Council to name a member willing to act on the Committee. The Council nominated the President. Finance Bill. Letters from two members of the profession relative to matters arising out of the Finance Bill were referred to the Parliamentary Com mittee. Searches. A report was received from the deputation from the Council, consisting of the President and two Vice-Presidents, who had interviewed the Registrar and Assistant Registrar of Deeds upon the question of expediting the furnishing of searches by the Registry of Deeds Office. The deputation had been satisfied that there at present exists no undue delay in the furnishing of searches, that no preferential attention is given to searches the requisitions for which come from Government departments or public bodies; and they were informed of the fact that in 1903 there were fourteen searchers upon the staff of the office, and now there are twenty-one; and recently the Treasury had sanctioned overtime work in the searching department. Unqualified Practitioner. The result of the application to the King's Bench Division for a writ, of attachment for contempt of Court under section 52 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, against a defendant (not a Solicitor) who had entered an appearance for himself, and upon behalf of his co-defendant, was reported. The Court held that the defendant who entered such ap pearance, in doing so for his co-defendant, had been guilty of a breach of the Solicitors (Ir.) Act, but having regard to the apology tendered to the Court by counsel on his behalf, and to his plea of acting in ignorance, the Court made no rule on the application. Examiners and Professor. The Council re-appointed Mr. Charles H. Denroche, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., Solicitor, and Mr. Frank V. Gordon, B.A., ex-Scholar (T.C.D.), Solicitor, as Special Examiners for 1910, and Mr. Thomas G. Quirke, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., as Professor of Real Property, Equity, and Con veyancing for 1909-10.

New Members. THE following have joined the Society during June, 1909 :—

Callan, Patrick J.', Dundalk. Leahy, Daniel, Abbeyfeale. Markey, Patrick C., Navan. Orr, Alexander D., Dublin.