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THE GAZETTE
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JUNE, 1927.
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FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
Half-yearly General Meeting.
The Half-yearly General Meeting of the
Society was held on Monday, the 16th May,
in the Offices of the Society, 45 Kildare
Street, Dublin.
Mr. W. T.
Sheridan,
President, occupied the Chair.
The following members were also present :
R. G. Warren, C. Gamble, J. Moore, A. H. S.
Orpen, T. G. Quirke, A. D. Orr, B. Thompson,
J. G. Reid, H. Concanon, J. W. Dyas,
W. H. Fry, R. N. KeUer, E. T. Ryan,
E. R. McC. Dix, E. R. Bate, F. E.
Bermingham, R. D. English, V. Kennedy,
W. H. C. Lloyd, E. Condell, E. J. Kenny,
E. J. Mallins, H. Malley, A. T. Ellis, V. F.
Kirwan, V. E. Kirwan.
The Secretary read the notice convening
the meeting, and also the Minutes of the
Half-yearly
General Meeting
held
in
November last, which latter were confirmed
and signed.
Upon the motion of Dr. Quirke, seconded
by Mr. Moore, it was resolved that Mr. W. W.
Carruthers, Mr. T. A. Ireland, and Mr. E. J.
Mallins be appointed Auditors of the Society's
Accounts for the year ending 30th April,
1927.
The President nominated the following
members
to act as Scrutineers of
the
ballot
for Council
to be held on 21st
November next : Mr. E. F. Collins, Mr. M.
Dawson, Mr. R. French, Mr. F. G. Sharpe,
and Mr. N. Taylor.
THE PRESIDENT, addressing the meet–
ing, said :
It is customary for the President at the
May Meeting of the Society to make some
observations on passing events affecting the
interests of our profession.
We had recently to deplore the loss of one
of our past Presidents, the late Mr. R. Blair
White, who was well known to, and much
respected by,- his fellow-practitioners.
For
fifteen years he performed much useful work
on the Council, and in the year 1920 he filled
the presidential chair with dignity and credit
to the profession.
I am sure you all join
with me in tendering our sympathy to his
relatives.
Until new machinery is tested, the engineers
or builders cannot be sure that it will run
smoothly, and satisfactorily carry out the
work for which it was intended, and if, as a
result of such test, any defects or matters
requiring adjustment become apparent, the
necessary alterations are made without delay.
The judicial machinery erected under the
Courts of Justice Act, 1924, is no exception
to this principle.
The Rules of the High and Supreme Court
came into operation on the 1st October last,
and very soon it became apparent that the
provision of Order XV., Rules 1 and 2, which
required that an affidavit showing that the
plaintiff was entitled to the relief claimed
should be served together with the originating
summons,
caused
considerable
delay
to
creditors and fulfilled no useful purpose.
The position was very much aggravated by a
decision of Mr. Justice Hanna in January
last, the effect of which was that the affidavit
required to be sworn by the plaintiff under
Order XV. was an affidavit " verifying his
cause of action and the amount claimed
(if any)."
In other words, a plenary affidavit
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