The Gazette 1919-20

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[MAY, 1919

place on Mondays and Thursdays at "two o'clock p.m., or on such other days, or at such other hour, as the Council may determine. Enquiry for any further particulars in reference to the Professorship should be addressed to the Secretary.

MR. EDWARD P. WILLIAMS, Solicitor, died upon the 19th April, 1919. Mr. Williams served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. John Stanton, 50 South Mall, Cork ; was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1889, and practised at Dungarvan. Commissioner to Administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be a Commissioner to administer Oaths : - Edward P. Keating, Solicitor, 130 St. Stephen's Green, Dublin. Honour. MR. WILLIAM GEOGHEGAN, M.B.E., Solicitor, 19 Kildare Street, Dublin, has been appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for the County Dublin. the 25th June, elect a Professor of Common Law to. the Society, in room of Mr. F. S. D. de V. White (Sen. Mod.), B.A., LL.D., T.C.D., Solicitor, whose term of office will expire at the end of Trinity Sittings. The new Professor will enter upon his duties next Michaelmas Sittings. The appointment will be made for one year, and the person appointed will be eligible for re'-appointment for each of the four succeeding years. A candidate for the Professorship must either be a practising Barrister or a practising Solicitor (in each case of not less than six years' standing), and he should send his application before the 16th June to the Secretary of the Society. The duties of the Professor consist of delivering twelve lectures in' Michaelmas Sittings, twelve lectures in Hilary Sittings, eighteen lectures' in Easter and Trinity Sittings (making in all forty-two lectures in the year), and conducting viva voce examina– tions in the subject of his lectures ; and the Professor also examines in Common Law Theory at the three Intermediate Examina– tions during the year. The lectures take Professorship of Common Law. THE Council will, upon Wednesday,

Certificate Duty. SOLICITORS (MILITARY SERVICE).

IN the House of Commons on 1st May, Mr. George Thorne asked the Chancellor of the Exchequer whether he can arrange that Solicitors who joined His Majesty's Forces within three years after being admitted shall not, as a result of their military service, lose the benefit of the provision under which Solicitors' certificate duty is payable at only one-half the full rate for the first three years ! after admission ? Mr. Chamberlain in reply stated : I have considered this class of case, and have authorised the Commissioners of Inland Revenue, on being satisfied as to the facts, to allow a claim for repayment of half the duty where the period which has elapsed .from the time of the Solicitors' admission, excluding the period of his service with the forces, is less than three years. Intermediate Examination. THE July Intermediate Examination will be held on Tuesday, the first day of July, 1919, at ten o'clock a.m. Notice of intention to attend the examination should be lodged in the Secretary's Office before 15th June. Recent Legal Decisions. Interruption of Ordinary Employment by War Service. The judgment in Cole v. Cole (reported L. R., 1919, 1 Ch. 218) is an important one, as likely to govern many similar cases arising out of the war. A testator possessed of a large number of shares in a company of which he was chairman bequeathed 60,000 shares to his trustees in trust to assign 20,000 shares to each of his three sons who should, prior to