The Gazette 1913-14

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

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the Registry of Deeds, contrary to the pro visions of the Act of 1865. (See especially Folio 4, Record of Title.) In these circumstances it is desirable that the folios still remaining open should be written up and closed and the recorded titles transferred to the Land Registry. I have, therefore, been directed by the Registrar of Titles to lay the above facts before you, and to say that he will be glad if you can bring them to the notice of the Solicitors' profession. I am to add that any Solicitor desiring information with regard to Record of Title folios should inquire at this Office. I am, Yours faithfully, (Signed), RAYMOND SMITH, Chief Clerk. Wm. Geo. Wakely, Esq., Secretary, Incorporated Law Society, Four. Courts, Dublin. Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors. (Notes of decisions, whether in reported or unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are invited from Members.) CHANCERY DIVISION (ENGLAND). (Before Joyce J.) BEBB v. THE LAW SOCIETY. July 2, 1913. — Solicitor — Admission — Whether women entitled to admission. A WOMAN is not entitled to be admitted to the preliminary examination held by the Law Society under the Solicitors Acts. This was an action by Miss Gwyneth Marj one Bebb asking for a declaration that she was a " person " within the meaning of the Solicitors Act (England), 184-3, and the amending Acts, and that she was entitled to be admitted to the preliminary examination held by the Law Society under such Acts. Mr. Justice Joyce, in giving judgment, said that if the applicant were disqualified by reason of her sex, then the application failed. According to the common law a woman was incapable of occupying a public office (Beresjord-Hope v. Sandhurst (5 The Times L. R., 472 (1889) 23 Q.B.D., 79). It had been said that a Solicitor did not exercise

Sittings, 1880. In the year 1888 he was appointed Assistant in the Office of the Chief Crown Solicitor for Ireland, which position he occupied up to the year 1907, when he was appointed Treasury Solicitor in Ireland. MR. GEORGE B. WILKI.VS, Solicitor, Lisburn, died on the 21st July, 1913, at his residence, Nrorth Circular Road, Lisburn. Mr. Wilkins, who served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. George L. Moore, Belfast, was admitted in Easter Sittings, 1888, and practised at 32 Market Square, Lisburn. Mr. Wilkins had for the past eight years been an extra-ordinary member of the Council. MR. CHARLES S. CALDWELL, Solicitor, Londonderry, died on the 25th July, 1913, at Dublin. Mr. Caldwell, who served his apprentice ship with Mr. Robert H. Todd, Solicitor, Londonderry, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1888, and practised (latterly in partnership with Mr. Henry S. Robinson) at Castle Street, Londonderry. Record of Title (Ireland) Act, 1865. THE attention of the members is called to the following letter which has been received :— Land Registry of Ireland, Central Office, Henrietta Street, Dublin, 1th July, 1913. The Record of Title Ad (Ireland), 1865. DEAR SIR, The above-mentioned Act was superseded by the Local Registration of Title (Ireland) Act, 1891, and Section 18 of the latter Act provides for the registration thereunder of all titles recorded under the former Act. The Act of 1865 was not largely availed of, and consequently the number of Record of Title folios opened was comparatively small— about 800. Some of these folios have been closed, or the titles recorded on them transferred to the Land Registry. Of the remaining folios some have not been written up since the respective dates on which they were opened, and others have not been completely written up. In some cases dealings affecting recorded estates have not been entered on the respective folios, but have been registered in