The Gazette 1955-58

OBITUARY. MR. ROBERT CHARLES GRAHAM died on the zznd May, 1956. Mr. Graham served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. John \V. Richards and was admitted in Trinity, 1922, and carried on practice under the name of S. S. & E. Reeves & Sons at Scottish Provident Buildings, Donegall Square West, Belfast. MR. JOSEPH H. DIXON died on 23rd June, 1956, at his residence, " Sunnyside," Seafield Avenue, Monkstown, Co. Dublin. Mr. Dixon was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1920 and practised at 15 Parnell Square, Dublin. MR. BRENDAN C. RUSSELL died on 23rd June, at a private nursing home. Mr. Russell was apprenticed to Mr. Charles M. Russell, Dundalk, was admitted in Hilary Sittings. 1932 and practised as a partner in the firm of MacMahon, Russell & Co., Dundalk. PROCEEDINGS AGAINST SOLICITORS. ON 27th June 1956 the Disciplinary Committee made an Order directing that the name of Charles Harvey who practised at Castlerea, County Ros- common shall be struck off the Roll of Solicitors. On 17th July, 1956, the Disciplinary Committee made an Order directing that the name of Peadar (otherwise Peter) Cowan, who practised at 67 Dame Street, Dublin, shall be struck off the Roll of Solicitors. LAND COMMISSION. LETTERS of conditional consent to sub-division. The Society has been informed by the Land Com mission that in letters of conditional consent to the sub-division of registered land where consolida tion is involved the following explanatory sentence is now being added to the paragraph regarding the feasibility of implementing consolidation: " It should be clearly understood that the responsibility of ensuring that all the lands to be consolidated are in fact held in the same capacity is a matter for the interested parties or their solicitors and is not a matter either for the Land Commission or the Land Registry." DECISIONS OF PROFESSIONAL INTEREST. Substituted Bill of Costs to replace Will which omitted Counsel's Fees. THE Court of Appeal (Jenkins and Hodson, L.JJ.) affirming Pearson J. dismissed this interlocutory

SECTION 8.—(i) Where any firm or person by this Act required to furnish a statement of particulars or of any change in particulars shall have made default in so doing, then the rights of that defaulter under or arising out of any contract made or entered into by or on behalf of such defaulter in relation to the business in respect to the carrying on of which particulars were required to be furnished at any time while he is in default shall not be enforceable by action or other legal proceeding either in the business name or otherwise. SECTION 13.—fi) If any firm or individual registered under this Act ceases to carry on business, it shall be the duty of the persons who were partners in the firm at the time when it ceased to carry on business or of the individual or if he is dead his personal representative within three months after the business has ceased to be carried on, to send by post or deliver to the registrar notice in the prescribed form that the firm or individual has ceased to carry on business, and if any person whose duty it is to give such notice fails to do so within such time as aforesaid, he shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds. (2) On receipt of such a notice as aforesaid the registrar may remove the firm or individual from the register. SECTION 18.—(i) After the expiration of three months from the passing of this Act every individual and firm required by this Act to be registered shall, in all trade catalogues, trade circulars, showcards, and business letters, on or in which the business name appears and which are issued or sent by the individual or firm to any person in any part of His Majesty's dominions, have mentioned in legible characters— w ........ (b) in the case of a firm, the present Christian names, or the initials thereof and present surnames, any former Christian names and surnames, and the nationality if not British, and if the nationality is not the nationality of origin the nationality of origin of all the partners in the firm or, in the case of a corporation being a partner, the corporate name. In the construction of this Act the following words and expressions shall have the meanings in this section assigned to them, unless there be something in the subject or context repugnant to such construction :— " Firm " shall mean an unincorporate body of two or more individuals, or one or more individuals and one or more corporations, or two or more corporations, who have entered into partnership with one another with a view to carrying on business for profit, but shall not include any unincorporated company which was in existence on the second day of November eighteen hundred and sixty-two : " Business " shall include profession ; " Individual" shall mean a natural person and shall not include a corporation ; " Christian name " shall include any forename ; " Initials " shall include any recognised abbreviation of a Christian name ; " Business name" shall mean the name or style under which any business is carried on, whether in partnership or otherwise ; " Foreign firm " shall mean any firm, individual, or corp oration whose principal place of business is situate outside His Majesty's dominio ns. CHANGE OF ADDRESS. BY Section 81 of the Solicitors Act 1954 a practising solicitor shall within fourteen days of any change of his place of business give notice thereof to the Registrar of Solicitors. SECTION 22.