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MARCH, 1927.
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FOR CIRCULATION
. AMONGST MEMBERS
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
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.