The Gazette 1919-20

JANUARY, 1920]

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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Sittings), by his answers exhibited the most thorough acquaintance with the theory, principles, and practice of Law.

Scholarships of the Incorporated Law Society. OVEREND SCHOLARSHIPS. These Scholarships were founded by the late Mr. Trevor T. L. Overend, a past President of the Society, who died in 1919, and by his will bequeathed £1,000 to the Society, one half to endow a Scholarship in connection with the Preliminary Examina tion, and the other half to endow a Scholar ship in connection with the Final Examina tion, subject to regulations to be made by the Council of the Society. The Council, on the 3rd December, 1919, made regulations for administering the income of the fund. Each of the two Scholarships will be of the value of £26 (or such other amount as the Council shall from time to time determine). One Scholarship will be awarded for proficiency (in the full course) at the Preliminary Examination, and the other for proficiency in the Theory portion (only) of the Final Examination. After the October Examination in 1920, and in each successive October, the Council will consider the proficiency displayed by candidates at the three Preliminary and Final Examinations, respectively, for the year, and will make awards of the Scholar ships provided that the Council are satisfied that the proficiency displayed merits in either or both cases, respectively, an award of a Scholarship or Scholarships. FINDLATER SCHOLARSHIP. This Scholarship was founded in 1877 by the late Sir William Findlater, D.L., a past President of the Society, by a grant of £1,000 to the Society, which grant he supplemented by a further grant in the year 1901, so as to make the Scholarship to be of the value of £60 Candidates at Final Examinations for Solicitors' Apprentices are eligible to com pete for the " Findlater Scholarship," which is awarded in the Michaelmas Sittings, each year, to the Apprentice who, in the opinion of the Council, has, amongst the Apprentices examined at the Three Final Examinations for the year (commencing the previous Michaelmas Sittings and ending in Trinity

Recent Legal Decision.

CHANCERY DIVISION (ENGLAND).

(Before Mr. Justice Eve.)

A SOLICITOR'S AGREEMENT :

RESTRAINT OF

TRADE. Dewes v. Fitch.

This action was an injunction to restrain the defendant either alone or jointly with any other person from being engaged as a solicitor within a radius of seven miles of the town hall, Tamworth (except on behalf of the North Warwickshire Miners' Association), in breach of his agreement. Mr. Maugham, K.C., said that the agreement of service was entered into on August 17, 1912. The defendant, a qualified Solicitor, agreed to serve the plaintiff as managing clerk in the business of a solicitor for three years or more. By clause 2 business relating to the Miners' Associa tion was excluded. By clause 8 the defen dant undertook that on the expiration of the agreement he would not be concerned in such business within seven miles of Tamworth. By an agreement dated February 5, 1914, the defendant was authorised to open an office at Nuneaton. The engagement of the defendant was terminated on June 30, 1914. Differences arose between the parties, and the defendant wrote on May 1, 1919, that he intended to break the agreement so as to have the position defined. The defendant pleaded that the agreement was unreasonable and bad in law and unenforceable. The submission of counsel was that the plaintiff was entitled to the relief that he sought. The plaintiff was called, and he bore out the opening statement of counsel.