The Gazette 1964/67

Joseph Gilmartin, Castlebar. Committee : William Dillon Leetch, T. V. O'Connor, John McHale, Kevin Loftus, Patrick J. McEllin. THE IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS The headquarters of the above Society is at 128 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin 2. Each county and city in Ireland has its own Society, having primary responsibility within its area for the pre vention of cruelty to animals. It is felt that normal testators would wish their beqtiests to further the work of the Society in the county or district in which they reside. If the Testator also wished the ISPCA to benefit it is considered better that this take the form of ai separate specific request, as the ISPCA has a constitutional sphere of its own. REGISTRATION OF TITLE ACTS, 189E and 1942 ISSUE OF NEW LAND CERTIFICATE Applications have been received from t&e registered owners mentioned in the Schedule annexed hereto, for the issue of Certificates of Title in suBstituticsn for the original Certificates issued in respect of the' lands, specified in the said Schedule, which original Certificates, it is alleged, have been lost or inadvertently destroyed. A new Certificate will be issued in each case;, except in respect of which notification is received in this Registry within 28 days from the publication! of this notice, that the Certificate of Title is still in existence, and in the custody of some persorn other than the registered owner. Any such notification should state the grounds on which such Certificate is being held. Dated the 13th day of June, 1966. D. L. McALLISTER Registrar of Titles SCHEDULE 1. Registered Owner, Denis O'Sullivan. Folio number 28829. County Kerry. Lands of Ballydonohoe in the Barony of Iraghticonnor containing 5la. 3r. 38p. 2. Registered Owner, Anita Clinton. Folio number 3724. County Dublin. Lands of (No. 1) Baltrasna in the Barony of Balrothery East containing 22a. 2r. 23p. 3. Registered Owner, Bruree Estate Limited. Folios (a) 5440, (b) 16823. County Limerick. Lands of (a) Garroose containing la. 3r. 35p and lands of (b) Bruree containing 4a. Or. 14p. both situate in the Barony of Connello Upper. Central Office, Land Registry, Chancery Street, Dublin.

and Tenant Acts. It is surprising to find that this new jurisdiction is conferred not on the Circuit Judges, as might be expected, but on the County Registrar. County Registrars are solicitors who are held in high esteem by their colleagues, but essentially they are officers attached to the Circuit Court. It seems wrong in principle that a judicial func- tion of this kind should be conferred on an officer of the Court, even with the right of appeal to the Judge. There is a prevalent tendency in legislation to erode the functions and jurisdiction of the Courts established under the Constitution, which, in the long run, must injure the judicial process and respect for the rule of law and the Courts. A citizen depends upon the Courts and judiciary for the protection of his rights. The proper person to try a judicial issue coming before the Circuit Court is the Judge. The majority of the County Registrars are solicitors who were formerly busy practitioners, often in the area of the Courts which they now serve, and many of the parties coming before them in their capacity as arbitrators under the new Bill will have been former clients of theirs, pr^ at any rate, will be well known to them by n-eason of their local connections. They may there fore f_r.d themselves at times in an embarrassing position between the parties. The Circuit Judge, on the other hand, will not be affected by such circumstaces. Justice should be seen to be done, and it is strange that the Bill should propose to confer a judicial func tion to determine property rights on officials of the Court who may be closely connected by former professional relationships with one or other of the parties.

MAYO SOLICITORS' BAR ASSOCIATION

The Annual General Meeting of the Associ ation held on 16th May, 1966, at which the following Officers and Committee were elected for the coming year :— President, Patrick J. Durcan, Castlebar; Vice- President, Lorcan Gill, Westport; Hon. Treasurer, Miss Bea Hynes, Castlebar; Hon. Secretary,