The Gazette 1933-36

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

QUNE, 1935

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Attorney General, and the Council expect that they will form part of the Statute when it has passed through all its stages. The Council believe that the Bill, so amended, will bring about a much needed reform in the matter of hearing appeals and also in other particulars, and will be a useful and welcome addition to the Statute Law of the Saorstat. The Bill has been read a second time and its passage through the Committee stage will be followed with care and attention by the Council. I would like on behalf of the Council to express the thanks of the Council to Miss M. Griffith, for her gift to the Society's Library of nine volumes of Griffith's General Valuation of Rateable Property in Ireland, and to Mr. Florence O'Sullivan, Solicitor, for his gift to the Society's Library of a miscellaneous collection of useful law books. The Council passed a resolution expiessing its regret at the death of Mr. Dunne, a past President of the Society, and its sympathy with his relatives in their bereavement. Mr. M. Buggy. The Council passed a resolution expressing its regret at the death of Mr. Buggy, who had been for twenty-four years Provincial Delegate for Leinster on the Council, and its sympathy with Mrs. Buggy in her be reavement. Free State Statutes. The Council directed a letter to be written to the Controller, Stationery Office, calling his attention to the delay in the issue of the bound volume of the Statutes of 1933 passed by the Oireachtas. Valuations. A letter was read from the Secretary of the Irish Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Association asking the support of the Council in the efforts of the Association to secure MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. 23rd May. Twenty-six Members present. Mr. W. H. Dunne.

the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland and the Universities which have also Law schools of their own. In that way a fund can be created and maintained out of which the author of a book will be suitably re warded for his labours and the cost of publication of each book defrayed. If this suggestion be not considered acceptable, at any rate, it must be recognised by everyone that the author of a legal book cannot be expected not only to work for nothing but in anticipation of certainly suffering financially as well. If there is a more suitable alternative to the scheme suggested, the sooner it is made known the better for both branches of the legal pro fession and the country generally. Since our last Half-yearly General Meeting your Council had occasion to make repre sentations to the Minister for Justice concerning facilities for legal advisers to consult persons under arrest. The Minister for Justice courteously agreed to these representations and the matter was satis factorily adjusted, and on representation to him by the Council through me, he also agreed to make suitable arrangements for the appearance of Solicitors before the Tribunal set up under the Military Service Pensions Act. During the half-year just ended your Council, having received a report that an unqualified person had been acting as a Solicitor in the county of Leitrim, prosecuted successfully this person, who was ordered to pay a penalty and costs. At the trial the Circuit Court Judge expressed his approval of your Council's action in the matter. In the month of February the new Courts of Justice Bill was issued in printed form. The Bill was carefully examined by the Council, and after long consideration certain amendments, which the Council deemed desirable and useful, were submitted to the Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General by a deputation from the Council consisting of the President, the two Vice-Presidents and Mr. E. H. Burne and your Secretary. The amendments submitted by the deputation were fully discussed and favour ably considered by the Ministry and the