The Gazette 1915-16

[NOVEMBER, 1915

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :— November 3rd and 17th. December 1st, 8th and 15th. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during October:— Court of Examiners, 1st and 18th. Costs, 15th, 25th and 28th. Annual Report, 26th. House, Library and Finance, 29th. Ballot for Election of Council. THE ballot for the election of the Council will take place in the Secretary's Office between the hours of eleven o'clock a.m. and one o'clock p.m., on Monday, the 22nd day of November, 1915. Ballot papers returned by post should be posted so as to reach the Secretary not later than one o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 22nd day of November, 1915. the members of the Society will be held in the Hall of the Society, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, on Friday, the 26th day of November, 1915, at two o'clock p.m. The report of the outgoing Council will be submitted for adoption. New Members. THE following joined the Society since July, 1915 :— Miley, Valentine W., 12 South Frederick Street, Dublin. O'Shaughnessy, Edward, Waterford. Obituary. MR. JOHN HARDIMAN, Solicitor, died upon the 20th August, 1915, at Limerick. Mr. Hardiman served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Robert McNamara, Limerick, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1887, and practised at Charlestown, Co. Mayo. General Meeting of the Society. THE Half-yearly General Meeting of

Munitions of War Act, 1915: Provisional Rules. A member of the Society having drawn attention to the rule providing that as regards tribunals of the second class referred to in the Act, no party to any proceeding should be represented before that tribunal by Counsel or Solicitor, the Council considered the matter, and having regard to the state ments contained in a letter from the Ministry of Munitions on the subject to the English Law Society, the Council did not consider that they could with advantage take action in the matter. The letter referred to stated that the rule in question was very carefully considered by the Minister of Munitions, that it was to be noted that the rule applied only to local munitions tribunals, whose jurisdiction is confined to minor cases arising under the Act; that the only offences in this category are breaches of rules of controlled establishments, or regulations under Sec. 4 (5) of the Act, and breaches of undertakings by workmen under Sec. 6 (1), and that in addition these tribunals hear complaints under Sec. 7 (2) that an employer's consent to a workman's leaving him has been unreasonably withheld. The letter further stated that it was felt that legal aid would not be necessary in these minor cases, and that permission to employ it on either side might put the workman at a disadvantage; moreover, that it was desired that cases of this character should be heard by a tribunal of a more domestic character than the ordinary Courts, and the rule was in fact the result of a Parliamentary pledge to that effect. That as regards the more serious cases which might involve impcrtant points of law there is no restriction on the employment of Counsel or Solicitors, and that in the circumstances the Minister did not see his way to consider the rescission of the rule. Court of Examiners. The report of, the Court of Examiners upon the October Preliminary and Intermediate Examinations was submitted and adopted. The report of the Court of Examiners upon an application of a Law Clerk for leave to be bound under Section 16 was submitted, and the application was granted.