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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society ol Ireland
JUNE, 1921
century by the efforts of the Society, benefits
which all enjoy to-day, will realise how
entirely lacking in
esprit de corps
are the
minority not on the roll of membership, and
who fail to realise the higher and larger
considerations of membership.
MR. DAVID QUAID moved a resolution
to the following effect, of which he had given
notice : " That, as the intervention of the
Crown in defence of the magistrate in the
case of
Quaid
v.
Lupton,
recently decided
before the Recorder of Dublin, affects the
Solicitors' profession, it be referred to the
Council for consideration and report." He
said that he thought it an extraordinary
precedent that the Crown should come in and
defend the case, when the magistrate was
accused
of
exercising
his
prerogative
arbitrarily.
If the Crown interfered in such
cases between the solicitor and the magistrate
every magistrate throughout the country
who happened to find himself in a difficulty
would call upon the Crown to support him,
and, to his mind, it would be a serious thing
for the entire body of the profession in
Ireland. Was it, he asked, consistent with
the
independence of
the magistrate and
with public policy that the Crown should
intervene in such cases ?
MR.
SAMUEL KERR
seconded
the
motion.
The meeting passed the resolution,
the
President remarking that what would be
taken into consideration would be the right of
the Crown to intervene, and not the merits
of the case, as decided by the Recorder, and
intimated that when any member is desirous
of having a question of professional interest
considered by the Council, a letter to the
Secretary on the subject always receives
attention.
MR. W. S. HAYES moved a vote of thanks
to the President which was passed, and the
President
having
returned
thanks
the
meeting terminated.
Meetings of the Council.
May 25th.
28 Members present.
General
Meeting.
The
resolution passed at
the General
Meeting on llth inst. was referred to the
Privileges Committee for report.
Unqualified Persons.
Enquiry was directed
to be made in
reference to a letter written by an unqualified
person who falsely described himself as a
solicitor, which letter had been forwarded to
the Secretary by the solicitor for the person
to whom the letter had been written.
Commissioners
to Administer
Oaths.
The Lord Chancellor has appointed the
following to be Commissioners to administer
oaths :
Robert I. Archer, Solicitor, 12 Upper
Ormond Quay, Dublin.
William J. Doherty, Assistant to the
Clerk of Crown and Peace, Mullingar.
Obituary.
MR. JOHN WILSON, Solicitor, died upon the
12th May, 1921, at his residence
33
Main
Street, Longford.
MR. WILSON served his apprenticeship with
his father the late Mr. John Wilson, Longford,
was admitted in Hilary Term, 1864, and
practised at Longford.
MR. DANIEL C. S. P. MOON, Solicitor, died
upon the 13th May, 1921, at Ballydevitt,
Aghadowey, Co. Londonderry.
MR. MOON served his apprenticeship with
Mr. Robert O'Neill, Coleraine ; was admitted
in Hilary Sittings, 1913, and practised at
Aghadowey.