The Gazette 1916-17

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November, 1916.

Vol. X, No. 5.]

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Meetings of the Council.

defendant under the Solicitors (Ireland) Act he being an unqualified person and having acted for a defendant at Petty Sessions. A decree for the statutable penalty of £50 was granted. Certificates. An application by a Solicitor for renewal of his Certificate was granted. October 18th. The late Lieutenant J. K. M. Greer, M.C. A resolution was passed expressing the sympathy of the Council with their colleague, Mr. T. M. Greer, Provincial Delegate for Ulster, on the death of his son, Lieutenant J. K. M. Greer, M.C., the Irish Guards, hav ing died of wounds received in action. Rules under Emergency Acts. A letter was read from the Lord Chancellor's Secretary expressing his Lord ship's thanks to the Council for their suggestions made in response to his request for provisions to be contained in rules under the Courts (Emergency Powers) (No. 2) Act, 1916, and the Law and Procedure Emergency Provisions (Ireland) Act, 1916. Law Clerks. Reports were submitted from the Court of Examiners upon applications from three Law Clerks for leave to be bound under Section 16. The Council granted two of the applications and refused the third.

October 4th. The late Lieutenant Macnamara.

A resolution was passed expressing the sympathy of the Council with their colleague Mr. R. A. Macnamara in his bereavement, his son Lieutenant Macnamara, Royal Dublin Fusiliers, having been killed in action. The late Mr. St. Lawrance-Burke. A resolution was passed expressing the sympathy of the Council with Mrs. St. Lawrance-Burke in her bereavement, owing to the death of her husband Mr. Stephen St. Lawrance-Burke, Provincial Delegate for Connaught on the Council. Property Losses Committee. Correspondence was submitted with the Property Losses Committee and with the Chief Secretary's Department on the subject of the sending of drafts in discharge of claims to the Solicitor in cases where the claim has been lodged by a Solicitor on behalf of a client, with the result that the Chief Secretary's Department agreed to the request of the Council that this course would be adopted. Solicitors (Ireland) Act. The Secretary reported that he had attended in Belfast upon 22nd September on the hearing of the case of the Society v. Knox, before the Recorder of Belfast, being proceedings for recovery of a penalty from