The Gazette 1949-1952
Vol. 45 No. 8
February, 1952
THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND
Vice-Presidents D esmond R. C ounahan l l . d . G erald J. O ’D onnell
President A rthur C ox
Secretary E ric A. P lunkett
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT I f you have not already taken out and stamped your Registrar’s certificate you should do so immedi ately. The final date for stamping certificates in time was 5th February, 1952. A late certificate must be produced to the Society for noting within one month o f stamping and will be effective for the purpose o f taxation of costs only from the date of such production. MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL 3 ist J anuary , 1952. The President in the Chair. Also present: Messrs. Desmond R. Counahan and Gerald J . O’Donnell, Vice-Presidents; Joseph P. Tyrrell, Joseph Barrett, Patrick F. O’Reilly, Patrick R. Boyd, James J. O’Connor, Ralph J. Walker, Reginald J. Nolan, Francis J . Lanigan, William J. Norman, Dermot P. Shaw, Niall S. Gaffney, James R. Quirke, John J . Sheil, Louis E. O’Dea, Derrick M. Martin, Thomas A. O’Reilly, Sean O hUadhaigh, George G. Overend, John Carrigan, John J. Nash. 67
The Council, standing in silence, passed a vote of sympathy with the relatives o f the late Mr. Daniel O’Connell, Dundalk. Mr. O’Connell was a member o f the Council for many years until his death and served as President in the year i945~’46. The following was among the business trans acted :— Signing o f petitions by prisoners A member was instructed by a prisoner under conviction and sentence to prepare a petition to the Minister for Justice for a remission o f the sentence. When he attended at the jail with the petition he was told by the Governor that a rule had been made that prisoners might submit petitions prepared by themselves but not by third parties. The Secretary reported that he had been in corres pondence on the subject with the Department, and read a letter from the Department stating that petitions prepared for prisoners by members o f the public, including solicitors, may not be signed by the prisoner without permission from the Department, that in the case mentioned the petition
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