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MARCH
1913] The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
April 16th and 30th.
May 14th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee meetings were held
during February :—
Privileges 5th and 17th.
House, Library and Finance, 7th 21st,
and 28th.
Gazette, 12th.
Court of Examiners, 19th.
Bankruptcy, 27th.
New Member.
THE following joined the Society during
February:—
Harris, Edwin, Newry.
Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors.
(Notes of decisions whether in reported or
unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are
invited from members.)
IN the King's Bench Division, upon 25th
February, before Mr. Justice Gibson, Mr.
Justice Madden, and Mr. Justice Kenny,
Mr. Ronan, K.C., with whom was Mr. Cecil
Atkinson (instructed by Messrs. Dealy and
'White), on behalf of Mr. Atwell Hayes Alien,
1 Westbourne Place, Queenstown, Co. Cork,
a practising Solicitor, applied for a con
ditional order of
mandamus
directed to the
Justices
of Queenstown Petty Sessions
District to compel them to give audience and
hearing to Mr. Alien in certain cases in which
he desired to appear as Solicitor before them.
Counsel said that the case was a very remark
able one, and very important in its legal
aspects, because, as far as he was aware, it
was the first time in this country, that a
bench of magistrates had assumed the juris
diction of disbarring, if he might use the
expression, a Solicitor by making an order
that he no longer should have audience in the
Court in which they sat. There was a pro
vision for dealing with persons guilty of
contempt of their Court, or insulting the
magistrates.
That was held to refer to
Solicitors practising in the Court as well as to
others. The circumstances out of which this
case arose were peculiar. He then referred to
the proceedings which took place in the Petty
Sessions Court at Queenstown on February
10th, and also on February 17th, as well as
to a meeting of magistrates of the Queens-
town district on February 13th. Mr.' Alien
had made certain observations with regard
to the procedure of the Court.
He was
appearing for a person who was prosecuted
for using blasphemous, obscene, and profane
language, and he objected to the form in
which evidence of the alleged offence was
given,
the
expressions mentioned being
written clown on slips of paper, and handed
up to the magistrates.
The justices took
exception to Mr. Alien's observations, and
declined to hear him unless he withdrew them.
Mr. Alien would not retract, but left the
Courthouse. The magistrates at their meet
ing passed a resolution which amounted to a
perpetual injunction against Mr. Alien, and
at the next sitting of the Court, on the 17th
February, declined to hear him in cases in
which he had been instructed to appear.
The Court granted the conditional order,
and gave permission to have a copy of same
telegraphed to
the magistrates sitting at
Queenstown Petty Sessions.
(From
Irish Times
of 26th February, 1913).
Easter Sittings Lectures.
LECTURES will be delivered to the Senior
Class upon the subjects of Real Property,
Equity, and Conveyancing by Professor
Mayne on the following dates
in Easter
Sittings, 1913 :—
April 15, 18, 22, 25, 29.
May 2, 6, 9, 16.
Lectures will be delivered to the Junior
Class upon Common Law by Professor Sharpe
on the following dates in Easter Sittings,
1913:— April 17, 21, 24, 28.
May 1, 5, 8, 15.