The Gazette 1924-27

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MARCH, 1927.

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the summons. This amending rule has been forwarded to the Minister for Justice with a request that he will submit it to both Houses of the Oireachtas. Circuit Court Appeals. It was resolved that the Minister for Justice be requested to receive a deputation from the Council to discuss the request of the Council that pending and future Circuit Court Appeals should be heard on oral evidence by way of re-hearing, and locally, and that the Circuit Court Appeals Bill should be amended to give effect to this request. A resolution was submitted from the Limerick Sessions Bar in support of the re-hearing of Circuit Court Appeals on oral evidence and locally. Circuit and District Court Affidavits. A resolution was received from the Mayo Sessions Bar in favour of Peace Commis– sioners being enabled to take affidavits for use in Circuit and District Courts. The Council passed a resolution in favour of the District Court Rules being amended so as to permit of affidavits for those Courts being s\forn before Peace Commissioners, and directed that the representatives of the pro– fession on the District Court Rules Committee be informed of this resolution.

Meeting of the Council.

24th Februar\'. Twenty-one Members present. Land Registry.

The President informed the Council of steps he had taken, at the request of the Council, in reference to the delay in the appointment of additional surveyors to carry out the work of replacing maps which had been destroyed in 1922 at the Land Registry, Four Courts. He stated that two additional surveyors had now been sanctioned by the Ministry of Finance, one of whom had been appointed and was engaged at the work. High Court Rules. The President informed the Council that a deputation from the Council had an interview with the President of the High Court, with the result that the President of the High Court had requested the Chief Justice to convene a meeting of the High Court Rule- making Committee for the purpose of con– sidering the request of the Council that Order XV. of the High Court Rules should be amended. The President further stated that he had attended the meeting of the High Court Rules Committee, at which, at his request, the Rules Committee made a rule amending Order XV., Rule 1, dispensing with the necessity of serving an affidavit with