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MAY, 1908]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during April:
Gazette, 6th.
Land Act, loth.
County Courts, z^th.
Library and Finance, zyth.
Court of Examiners,
zjih.
Costs, zgth.
Commissioners for Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the fol–
lowing additional commissioners to administer
oaths :
Robert T. F. Greene, Solicitor, Dublin.
James L. Burke, Solicitor, Dublin.
Christopher Moran, Solicitor, Dublin.
James W. Davis, Solicitor, Dublin.
William H. Spence, Solicitor, Dublin.
Annual Subscriptions.
MKMBEKS are reminded that the annual sub–
scription to the Society
(£1
town members
and such country members as vote at election
of ordinary members of Council, and
los.
other country members) became due upon the
ist day of May, as well as annual press-rents
(5*0-
New Solicitors.
ADMISSIONS DURING APRIL, 1908.
Served apprenticeship to
Name.
Alister, Edmund,
Lendnini, Charles Henry,
Mac G rath, Patrick,
William I. Mahaffy, Bel–
fast.
W. Guest Lane, Cork.
Roger Greene, Dublin.
Obituary.
MR. WILLIAM F. MACK.ITXRICK, Solicitor, died
on the 241!) April, 1908, at his residence, 25
Laurence Street, Drogheda. Mr. MacKittrick,
who served his apprenticeship with Mr. John
H. McCann, Solicitor, Drogheda, was ad–
mitted in Hilary Sittings, 1907, and practised
in Drogheda.
Mr. Rody X. M. Gieeson, Solicitor, died on
2gth April, 1908, at his residence, Nenagh.
Mr. Gieeson, who served his apprenticeship
with the late Mr. John Cavanagh, Solicitor,
52 Dame Street, Dublin, was admitted in
Trinity Sittings, 1887, and practised in Nenagh.
He held the position of Coroner for the past
six years.
Reported Cases on Costs.
THIS book, published by the Society some years
ago, contains a collection of
verbalim
reprints of
the Reports of cases relating to costs decided
in Ireland from 1867 to 1891 ; and also of such
of the English cases on the Solicitors' Re–
muneration Act up to 1891 as are applicable to
the law in Ireland.
It consists of 735 pages.
The remaining copies will be sold at the re–
duced price of 5.?,, postage
6d.
extra, and can
be obtained from the Secretary of the Society,
Four Courts.
Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors.
(A
'oles ofdecisions, whether in reported or unnpoiied
cases, of interest
to Solicitors, are invited from
Members.}
COURT OF APPEAL.
(Before FitzGibbon and Holmes, L.JJ.)
In the Matter of an Arbitration beiween William
Small and The Scottish Live Slock Insurance
Co.
April 22, 1908.
Practice—Costs—Arbitration—
Costs of second
counsel — Taxing Master's
discretion.
Appealfrom order of Kings Bench Division (see
GAZETTE
of previous month) reversing decision
of Taxing Master.
IN an arbitration (arising out of an insurance
policy) which was held during the Belfast
Assizes after the ordinary court work was over,
and which occupied about three and a half hours,
seven witnesses being examined, the insured
was awarded a sum of ^93
6s. 8d.
with costs.
On taxation the Taxing Master disallowed fee
of a second counsel who appeared for the
insured at the arbitration, on the ground that
the case was a small one, and one counsel was
enough :
The King's Bench
(Boyd, Kenny, and
Wright, JJ.)
held,
that the Taxing Master had
failed to appreciate the importance of the case,
and that the matter should be remitted back to