The Gazette 1916-17

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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

JUNE, 1916]

Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :—

New Members.

THE

following

joined

the Society during

May, 1916 :—

. Doyle, Terence, 22 Eustace Street, Dublin. Todd, Robert H., Londonderry.

June 14th and 28th. July 12th and 26th.

Committee Meetings. THE following Committee meetings were held during May :— Gazette, 18th. Costs, 19th. Court of Examiners, 22nd. Legal Appointments. MR. HENRY ARTHUR WYNNE, of the firm of Messrs. Wynne and Wynne, 62 South Mall, Cork, has been appointed Chief Crown Solicitor for Ireland, in room of the late Sir Malachy J. Kelly. MR. JASPER TRAVERS WOLFE, Skibbereen, has been appointed Crown Solicitor for the West Riding of County Cork and for the City of Cork, in room of Mr. Henry Arthur Wynne, appointed Chief Crown Solicitor. Obituary. MR. JOHN H. O'DoNNELL, Solicitor, died upon the 14th May, 1916, at his residence, 40 Lower Leeson Street, Dublin. Mr. O'Donnell served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. John O'Hagan, 9 Harcourt Street, Dublin, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1890, and practised (formerly in partnership with the late Mr. John O'Hagan, and latterly in partnership with Mr. Richard Ryan), .at 9 Harcourt Street, Dublin, under the style of Messrs. O'Hagan and Son. Commissioners to Administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be Commissioners to administer Oaths :— John P. Dillon, Solicitor, 5 North Great George's Street, Dublin. Harcourt H. Jones, Solicitor, Belfast. John Robinson, Auctioneer, Belfast.

Appeals to the House of Lords. BY resolution, passed by the House of Lords upon 23rd May, 1916, Standing Order No. 1 regulating Judicial Proceedings in the House, was amended so as to read as follows :— ORDERED, that no petition of appeal be received by this House unless the same be lodged in the Parliament Office for presenta tion to the House within six months from the date of the last decree, order, judgment,, or interlocutor appealed from, or, in the case of decrees, orders, judgments, or interlocutors pronounced before the 1st day of April, 1916, within one year from the date of the pronouncement of the said decree, order, ju Igment, or interlocutor. Recent Decision affecting Solicitors. (Notes of decisions, whether in reported or unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are invited from Members.) COURT OF APPEAL. (Before Sir Ignatius J. O'Brien, C., and Ronan and Molony, L.JJ.) In re Ursula Radcliffe, a Bankrupt. May 22, 1916.— Practice—T.axation of costs by Registrar of local Court — Costs incurred in Court of Appeal. This was an appeal by the Bankrupt from an order of His Honour the Recorder of Belfast, refusing to review the Registrar's taxation. It appeared that the Recorder had adjudicated Miss Radcliffe a Bankrupt. She appealed, arid the Court of Appeal held that the adjudication was wrong, there being no evidence to sustain it, and set it aside, adjudicating the respondents, the Imperial Tobacco Co., Ltd., to pay the costs when