The Gazette 1914-15

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[FEBRUARY, 1915

87

New Solicitors. ADMISSIONS DURING JANUARY, 1915. Name Served Apprenticeship to Boyd, John ... ... John Bristow, Belfast. Browne, James C. ... Thomas Elliott, Strabane, Cotton, Thos. Dawson Martin H. Turnbull, Bel fast. Cullen, John ... ... George P. Cussen, Dublin. Forde, John ... ... James A. Kicrnan, Ballina- more. Keery, William John ... James Robinson, Dublin. Lynch, George ... T. J. Hunt, Ennis. Mathews, Sydney ... James C. Taylor, Belfast. Norman, William John Francis Clinch, Dublin. O'Dohefty, Hugh C. F. Hugh C. O'Doherty, Lon donderry. O'Doherty, James ... Hugh C. O'Doherty, Lon donderry. Osborne, Robert A. ... Stephen J. Brown. Naas. Results of Examinations. PRELIMINARY EXAMINATION. AT the Preliminary Examination,-held upon the 7th and 8th days of January, the following passed the examination, and their names are arranged in order of merit :— 1. David D. MacDonald. 2. Donald L. Ross. 3. Hubert P. D. Walsh. James Reilly has passed the modified Preliminary Examination, for which he had liberty to present himself. The remaining candidates were postponed. Seven attended : four passed ; three were postponed. FINAL EXAMINATION. At the Final Examination, held upon the 4th, 5th and 6th days of January, the following passed the examination, and their names are arranged in order of merit :— 1. Robert A. Macaulay. 2. Arthur C. J. Cox, B.A., N.U.I. 3. Robert S. Magee. 4. Alfred V. G. Thornton.

Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors. (Notes of decisions, whether in reported or unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are invited from Members.) HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE. CHANCERY DIVISION (ENGLAND). INTEREST ON COSTS. A. H. Stickney v. E. Keeble and Others. (Before Mr. Justice Joyce.) In this case Mr. Percy Wheeler made an application on behalf of the plaintiff that the defendants should be ordered to pay (inter alia) interest at the rate of 4 per cent, per annum on the plaintiff's costs of the appeal as from the date of the judgment of the Court of Appeal. The application arose out of the judgment of the House of Lords delivered on December 11 last (reported [1915J W.N., 6). The House of Lords held that the decision of the Court of Appeal of March 14, 1913, should •be reversed, and that the decision of Mr. Justice Joyce of December 2, 1912, in favour of the plaintiff should be restored, and it was further ordered that the defendants should pay to the plaintiff the costs incurred by him in the Courts below. Mr. Wheeler said that according to the Annual Practice, p. 2,301, the order of the House of Lords must be made an order of the Court below, and that the plaintiff was entitled to the interest on his costs in the Court of Appeal from the date of the judgment—Macbeth and Co. (Limited) v. Maritime Insurance Company (Limited) , ([1908], 24 The Times Law Reports, 559). Mr. Sheldon, for the defendants, said that the plaintiff's costs in the Court of Appeal had not been taxed, and that he was not entitled to interest thereon. Mr. Justice Joyce said that this point had been settled according to the Annual Practice, supra, and, if not, then he would settle it. The defendants must pay interest on the plaintiff's costs from the date of the judgment of the Court of Appeal. (From The Times of 10th February, 1915). (Reported [1915] W.N., 72.)

5. Charles A. Cooke. 6. John J. Keenan. 7. Rupert W. Oulton, B.A., T.C.D. 8. John M. S. White. 9. Terence Byrne.

The Council awarded a Gold Medal to Robert A. Macaulay, a Silver Medal to