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JULY, 1929]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
13
NEW
MEMBERS.
The following have joined the Society :—
John P. Dowd, Cootehill.
Herman Good,
36 Nassau
Street,
Dublin.
Joseph C. Guihan, Tralee.
Diarmuid P. J. Murtagh, Athlone.
Reginald A. Sainsbury, 4 St. Andrew
Street, Dublin.
SOLICITORS' APPRENTICES' DEBATING
SOCIETY.
Awards for Session 1928-1929.
Oratory :—Incorporated
Law
Society's
Gold Medal, Miss E.
G.
Keller; Society's
Silver Medal, Mr. B. O'Brolchain.
Incorporated
Law
Society's
Special
Certificate, Mr. B. Finegan.
Legal Debate :—Society's Special Certifi
cate, Mr. M. V. Harrington ; President's Gold
Medal, Mr. W. H. P. England; Society's
Silver Medal, Mr. B. O'Brolchain.
Impromptu Speeches : — Vice-Presidents'
Gold Medal, Mr. W. H. P. England, Vice-
Presidents' Silver Medal, Mr. P. Gallagher.
Composition : — Incorporated Law
Society's Gold Medal, Mr. P. Gallagher.
LEGAL PRACTITIONERS
(QUALIFICATION) BILL,
1928.
The following
is a copy of the Legal
Practitioners (Qualification) Bill, 1928, as
passed by both Houses of the Oireachtas
on 26th June, 1929.
BILL.
Entitled an act to make provision for securing
that
future members of
the Legal
Profession
shall possess a competent knowledge of the Irish
Language.
Be it enacted by the Oireachtas of Saorstat
Eireann as follows :—
1. In this Act the expression "the Chief Justice "
means the Chief Justice of Saorstat Eireann; the
expression
" the
Incorporated
Law Society
means the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
acting under their present or any future charters ;
and the expression " competent knowledge of the
Irish Language " means such a degree of oral and
written proficiency in the use of the language as
is sufficient to enable a legal practitioner efficiently
to receive instructions, to advise clients, to examine
witnesses and to follow proceedings in the Irish
language.
2. This Act shall not apply to any person who
was over the age of fifteen years on the 1st day of
October, 1929, and in this Act the word " person "
shall be construed accordingly.
3. No person shall be admitted by the Chief Justice
to practise as a barrister-at-law in the Courts of
Saorstat Eireann unless before such person is so
admitted he satisfies the Chief Justice, by such
evidence as the Chief Justice shall prescribe, that
he possesses a competent knowledge of the Irish
language :
Provided always that nothing in this
Section contained shall prevent the Chief Justice
from admitting to practise as a barrister-at-law
in the Courts of Saorstat Eireann any member
of three years' standing at any other Bar who has
been admitted to the degree of barrister-at-law
by the Benchers of the Honourable Society of
King's Inns, Dublin, pursuant to a reciprocal
arrangement whereby members of
the Bar of
Saorstat Eireann may be admitted to practise at
such other Bar.
4. (1) In addition to the examinations mentioned
in section 8 of the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898,
the Incorporated Law Society is hereby authorised
and required to hold at least once in every year
a first examination in the subject on the Irish
language (in this Act referred to as a first examina
tion in Irish) and a second examination in the
subject of the Irish language (in this Act referred
to as a second examination in Irish), and the pro
visions contained in the said section 8 shall apply
to every such examination in the subject of the
Irish language in like manner as they apply to
the examinations mentioned in that section save
that such examinations in the subject of the Irish
language shall be conducted only by examiners
for the time being approved of by the Minister
for Education and that every second examination
in Irish shall be so prescribed and conducted as to
secure that persons who pass such examination have
a competent knowledge of the Irish language.
(2) Notwithstanding anything contained in the
Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, no person shall be
capable of being bound by indentures of apprentice
ship to serve as an apprentice to a solicitor unless
he has obtained
from
the
Incorparated Law
Society a certificate that he has passed a first
examination
in
Irish, and no person shall be
admitted a solicitor unless he has obtained from
the Incorporated Law Society a certificate that
he has passed a second examination in Irish within
one yeai before th» expiration of the term of his
apprenticeship or within one year before being so
admitted.
5. This Act may be cited as the Legal Practitioners
(Qualification) Act, 1020. _______________
ALL communications connected with THE
GAZETTE (other than advertisements) should
be addressed to the Secretary of the Society,
45 Kildare Street, Dublin, C.I7.