The Gazette 1912-13

MARCH

1913] The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

101

Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :— April 16th and 30th. May 14th. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee meetings were held during February :— Privileges 5th and 17th. House, Library and Finance, 7th 21st, and 28th. Gazette, 12th. Court of Examiners, 19th. Bankruptcy, 27th.

Court in which they sat. There was a pro vision for dealing with persons guilty of contempt of their Court, or insulting the magistrates. That was held to refer to Solicitors practising in the Court as well as to others. The circumstances out of which this case arose were peculiar. He then referred to the proceedings which took place in the Petty Sessions Court at Queenstown on February 10th, and also on February 17th, as well as to a meeting of magistrates of the Queens- town district on February 13th. Mr.' Alien had made certain observations with regard to the procedure of the Court. He was appearing for a person who was prosecuted for using blasphemous, obscene, and profane language, and he objected to the form in which evidence of the alleged offence was given, the expressions mentioned being written clown on slips of paper, and handed up to the magistrates. The justices took exception to Mr. Alien's observations, and declined to hear him unless he withdrew them. Mr. Alien would not retract, but left the Courthouse. The magistrates at their meet ing passed a resolution which amounted to a perpetual injunction against Mr. Alien, and at the next sitting of the Court, on the 17th February, declined to hear him in cases in which he had been instructed to appear. The Court granted the conditional order, and gave permission to have a copy of same telegraphed to the magistrates sitting at Queenstown Petty Sessions. (From Irish Times of 26th February, 1913). Easter Sittings Lectures. LECTURES will be delivered to the Senior Class upon the subjects of Real Property, Equity, and Conveyancing by Professor Mayne on the following dates in Easter Sittings, 1913 :— April 15, 18, 22, 25, 29. May 2, 6, 9, 16. Lectures will be delivered to the Junior Class upon Common Law by Professor Sharpe on the following dates in Easter Sittings, 1913:— April 17, 21, 24, 28. May 1, 5, 8, 15.

New Member. THE following joined the Society during February:— Harris, Edwin, Newry.

Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors. (Notes of decisions whether in reported or unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are invited from members.) IN the King's Bench Division, upon 25th February, before Mr. Justice Gibson, Mr. Justice Madden, and Mr. Justice Kenny, Mr. Ronan, K.C., with whom was Mr. Cecil Atkinson (instructed by Messrs. Dealy and 'White), on behalf of Mr. Atwell Hayes Alien, 1 Westbourne Place, Queenstown, Co. Cork, a practising Solicitor, applied for a con ditional order of mandamus directed to the Justices of Queenstown Petty Sessions District to compel them to give audience and hearing to Mr. Alien in certain cases in which he desired to appear as Solicitor before them. Counsel said that the case was a very remark able one, and very important in its legal aspects, because, as far as he was aware, it was the first time in this country, that a bench of magistrates had assumed the juris diction of disbarring, if he might use the expression, a Solicitor by making an order that he no longer should have audience in the