The Gazette 1908-9

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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persons seeking to be appointed commissioners

for taking affidavits for use in the High Court

of Justice in Ireland; whether his attention

has been called to the fact that in some cases

Dublin agents of country solicitors take affi–

davits in business connected with their agencies,

that solicitors who are commissioners take

affidavits in business transacted in their offices,

and that la'-v clerks who act as commissioners

take affidavits in cases pending in the offices of

their employers ; and whether he will cause

instructions to be issued on these 'matters..:..,;,

Answer.

Mr. Cherry. I have referred this

Question to the Lord Chancellor, who informs

me that no qualification is prescribed by statute

for the appointment of commissioner for taking

affidavits in Ireland, except in the case of the

Dublin Commissioners, who must be solicitors,

and who are required by the Lord Chancellor

to have been in practice for a period of at least

three years prior to their appointment. The

rules of the Supreme Court provide that no

affidavit shall be sufficient if sworn-before the

solicitor for the part}' on whose behalf the

affidavit is to be used, or before the partner,

agent, correspondent, or clerk'of such solicitor.

No case of a violation of this rule by a com–

missioner has come under the notice of the

Lord Chancellor.

It would be open to the

party against whom such an affidavit might be

used to object to its sufficiency, or the breach

of duty by the commissioner could be brought

under the notice of the Lord Chancellor.

Reported Cases on Costs.

THIS book, published by the Society some years

ago, contains a collection of

verbatim

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 0^735 pages.

The remaining copies will be sold at the re–

duced price of

$s.,

postage

6d.

extra, and can

be obtained from the Secretary of the Society,

Four Courts.

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Obituary. ;j

MR. Robert 0. Longfield, Solicitor, died on

15th May, 1908,

in Dublin. Mr. Longfield

served his apprenticeship with Mr. Richard O.

Armstrong, 47 Upper Sackville Street, Dublin ;

was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1865, and

practised at 25 Clare Street, Dublin, and

Dungannon, in partnership with Mr. Owen A^

Armstrong, under the style of Longfiel

Kelly,

and Armstrong.

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Mr. Longfield was a member of the

ouncil

of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland

from 1874 to 1889, and again from 1898 to

1900, and filled the office of Vice-President of

the Society in 1899.

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''Mr; Felix J. M'Keown, Solicitor," 'died1

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Toomebridge, Co. Antrim, on zoth May, 1908.

Mr. M'Keown served his apprenticeship with'

Mr. John Malone, Cookstown, was admitted

in Michaelmas Sittings, 1896, and practised

at Belfast.

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" MiVjose'fjh Wfight, j.'p., D.L!, Solicitor,"died

at his residence, Kilnaloy, Monaghan, on the

2jrd May, 1908.

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Mr. Wright served his apprenticeship with,

the late Mr. John Hall, Hardwicke Street,.

Dublin ; was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1857,

and practised at Monaghan. Mr. Wright was

formerly Solicitor to the Grand Jury, County

Monaghan, and subsequently to the Monaghan

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Mr. William R. Rogers, Solicitor, died at'

his residence, Francis Street, Dundalk, on the

28th May, 1908.

Mr. Rogers served his.

apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr.

William R. Rogers (senior) ; was admitted in

Michaelmas Sittings, 185-5,. an(i, practised at

Dundaik.

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Solicitors seeking Call to the Bar.:u:;joO

The Statutory Committee having reported

upon

the applications of Mr. Edmund A.

Swaine, Solicitor, and Mr. William Joseph

Gleeson, Solicitor, to have their names struck

off the Roll in order to enter as law students

of the King's Inns, with a view to seeking

call to the Bar, the Lord Chancellor has made

orders in compliance with the recommenda–

tions contained in the reports of the Com–

mittee, directing the names of both solicitors,

to be struck off the Roll at their own request."

Mr. Swaine was admitted in Michaelmas

Sittings, 1902, and practised at 16 Molesworth

Street, Dublin.

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Mr. Gleeson was."' admitted .in' Mic'h'aeliriaV

Sittings, 1901, and practised at 68 Dame'iSfr.^?,"'

Dublin.

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