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JANUARY, 1920]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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Scholarships of the Incorporated Law
Society.
OVEREND SCHOLARSHIPS.
These Scholarships were founded by the
late Mr. Trevor T. L. Overend, a past
President of the Society, who died in 1919,
and by his will bequeathed £1,000 to the
Society, one half to endow a Scholarship in
connection with the Preliminary Examina
tion, and the other half to endow a Scholar
ship in connection with the Final Examina
tion, subject to regulations to be made by
the Council of the Society.
The Council, on the 3rd December, 1919,
made
regulations
for
administering
the
income of the fund.
Each of the two Scholarships will be of the
value of
£26
(or such other amount as the
Council shall from time to time determine).
One Scholarship will be awarded
for
proficiency (in
the
full
course)
at
the
Preliminary Examination, and the other for
proficiency in the Theory portion (only) of
the Final Examination.
After the October Examination in 1920,
and in each successive October, the Council
will consider the proficiency displayed by
candidates at the three Preliminary and
Final Examinations, respectively, for the
year, and will make awards of the Scholar
ships provided that the Council are satisfied
that the proficiency displayed merits in either
or both cases, respectively, an award of a
Scholarship or Scholarships.
FINDLATER SCHOLARSHIP.
This Scholarship was founded in 1877 by
the late Sir William Findlater, D.L., a past
President of the Society, by a grant of £1,000
to the Society, which grant he supplemented
by a further grant in the year 1901, so as to
make the Scholarship to be of the value of £60
Candidates at Final Examinations
for
Solicitors' Apprentices are eligible to com
pete for the " Findlater Scholarship," which
is awarded in the Michaelmas Sittings, each
year, to the Apprentice who, in the opinion
of the Council, has, amongst the Apprentices
examined at the Three Final Examinations
for
the year
(commencing
the previous
Michaelmas Sittings and ending in Trinity
Sittings), by his answers exhibited the most
thorough acquaintance with
the
theory,
principles, and practice of Law.
Recent Legal Decision.
CHANCERY DIVISION (ENGLAND).
(Before Mr. Justice Eve.)
A SOLICITOR'S AGREEMENT :
RESTRAINT OF
TRADE.
Dewes
v.
Fitch.
This action was an injunction to restrain
the defendant either alone or jointly with any
other person from being engaged as a solicitor
within a radius of seven miles of the town
hall, Tamworth (except on behalf of the
North Warwickshire Miners' Association), in
breach of his agreement.
Mr. Maugham,
K.C.,
said
that
the
agreement of service was entered into on
August 17, 1912. The defendant, a qualified
Solicitor, agreed to serve the plaintiff as
managing clerk in the business of a solicitor
for three years or more.
By clause 2
business relating to
the Miners' Associa
tion was excluded. By clause 8 the defen
dant undertook that on the expiration of
the agreement he would not be concerned
in such business within seven miles of
Tamworth. By an agreement dated February
5, 1914, the defendant was authorised to open
an office at Nuneaton. The engagement of
the defendant was terminated on June 30,
1914. Differences arose between the parties,
and the defendant wrote on May 1, 1919,
that he intended to break the agreement so
as to have the position defined.
The defendant pleaded that the agreement
was unreasonable and bad
in
law and
unenforceable.
The submission of counsel was that the
plaintiff was entitled to the relief that he
sought.
The plaintiff was called, and he bore out
the opening statement of counsel.