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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
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Vol. XVI., No. 7.]
January, 1923.
:
FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
6th December.
Twenty-seven Members present.
Election of President and Viee-President.
The Council
elected Mr.
Joseph E.
MacDermott to be President of the Society,
and Mr.. Arthur W. Stirling and Mr. Peter
Seales to be Vice-Presidents of the Society
for the ensuing twelve months.
Solicitors' Privileges.
The question
of Solicitors'
rights
to
interview clients who are detained in prison,
which had been referred to at the Half-
yearly Meeting of the Society, was considered,
and it was decided to address a communica
tion
to
the Minister of Defence on
the
subject.
Compensation for Destroyed Property.
Letters were read from members of the
Society
in
reference
to
the question of
remuneration of Solicitors for the preparation
of the forms prescribed by the Minister of
Finance
for
claiming
compensation
for
damage
inflicted since
llth July,
1921.
Pending
the
introduction
of
legislation
•dealing with such claims, no definite reply as
to the mode of remuneration for the necessary
proceedings could be given by the Council.
13th December.
Twenty-six Members present.
Extra-Ordinary Members.
The names of the following were submitted
for election as Extra-ordinary Members of
the Council for
the year
ending 26th
November, 1923 :—By the Incorporated Law
Society of Northern Ireland—Mr. S. G.
Crymble
(President),
Mr.
Alien,
Mr.
McCutcheon, Mr. Turnbull, and Mr. Wood.
By the Sotithern Law Association—Mr. Deyos
(President), Mr. Exham, Mr. Morgan, Mr.
P. J. Kavanagh, and Mr. Lane. The ten
whose names were submitted were elected.
Statutory Committee.
The Secretary reported that the Lord
Chief Justice of Ireland had appointed the
following members of the Council to be the
Statutory Committee for the year ending
26th November, 1923:—Mr. MacDermott,
Mr. Brady, Mr. Gamble, Mr. Quirke, Mr.
Seddall,. Mr. Warren, and Mr. White.
Solicitors' Privileges.
A
letter in reply was read from
the
Secretary of the Minister of Defence, enclosing
a copy of an instruction dated 23rd November,
1922,
issued by the Army authorities in
reference to visits to prisoners by their legal