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employment of the Society for almost fifty years, having been appointed on the 10th October, 1891 and was a highly esteemed and popular figure with the profession. He retired on pension in December, 1939, and spent the last twelve months in a Nursing Home in Dublin where he died on the 2nd April, 1943. CURRENT TOPICS. Judges, Juries and Insurance Companies. No rule of conduct is better known than that whereby a jury must not be informed that one of the parties to an action before them is entitled to be indemnified by an Insurance Company against any damages awarded in the action. The Rule is based upon the fact shown by experience that juries are liable to be prejudiced if they are aware that there is in existence such a policy of insurance. In the recent English case of Harman v. Crilly and Others (59.T.L.R.96), an action for Trial by Judge without a (ury, it was sought to bring in by" third party notice an Insurance Company by which the defendant claimed he was entitled to be indemnified under a policy of Insurance. The motion was resisted by the Insurance Company on the ground, inter alia, that the trial would be likely to be prejudiced if it were brought to the mind of the Judge that the defendant was entitled to the benefit of a contract of Insurance. This objection was

MEETING OP THE COUNCIL.

18th March. The President in the Chair. Present : John S. O'Connor, V.P. ; G. A. Overend ; William J. Norman; William L. Duggan; William S. Hayes ; Cecil G. Stapleton ; Henry P. Mayne ; Scan O hUadhaigh; P. R. Boyd ; Eugene F. Collins; A. Cox; Patrick F. O'Reilly; F. J. W. Darley; Roger Greene; Hugh O'Donnell. Land Registration Fee Order, 1937. The Secretary was instructed to write to the Departments of Justice and Finance pointing out certain inequitable provisions in the above Order in the assessment of fees payable to the Land Registry and requesting that the matter .should be rectified. Lease of Solicitors' Buildings. The House, Library and Finance Com mittee was authorised to deal with and conclude the terms of the proposed lease from the Commissioners of Public Works to the Society of the Solicitors' Buildings. OBITUARY. We regret to have to record the death of Mr. Jarnes Wood who was known to several generations of Solicitors as the Society's hall-porter and caretaker. He was in the J. P. Carrigan, V.P. ;