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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law .Society o! Ireland.
[FEBRUARY, 1920
guineas
from " Anonymous."
Three guineas
from the County Wicklow
Sessional Bar Association.
Ten pounds
from Messrs. H.Wallace and Co.
The approximate cost of the Memorial is
£650, and the amount received towards this
sum is £354 19s. 6d. in response to the appeal
for subscriptions limitel to one guinea, issued
last March.
It'Lhas now been decided to issue a further
appeal for subscriptions to make up. the
balance require!.
Admission of Women to the Profession.
The Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act,
1919, received the Royal Assent upon 23rd
December last. The Act opens the legal and
other professions to women.
Section 1 enacts that—" A person shall
"not be disqualified by sex or marriage
" from the exercise of any public function
" or from being appointed to or holding
" any civil or judicial office or post, or
" from entering or assuming or carrying
" on anj' civil profession or vocation, or
" for admission to anv incorporated society
" (whether incorporated by Royal Charter
,
." or otherwise), and a person shall not be
" exempted by sex or marriage from the
" liability to serve as a juror."
Two women have, since the passing of the
Act, lodged applications to the Society for
apprenticeship.
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Examination Results.
At the Preliminary Examination held upon
.
the 8th and 9th January, the following
passed the examination, and their names are
arranged in order of merit. :—
1. James R. Lindsay.
2. Edward A. Cleary.
3. Richard S. H. Twigg.
4. John F. O'Riordan.
5. John Hollinger.
6. Robert Baillie, Jun.
7. Andrew J. O'Flynn.
8. Francis L. Ringland.
9. Patrick F. O'Reilly.
10. John J. Hannan.
11. William H. Smith.
12. Herbert MacNeice.
John G. Magrath, Thomas A. Murphy,
Patrick G. O'Donnell and Timothy J. Regan
passed the modified Preliminary Examina
tion for which they had liberty to present
themselves.
Seventeen candidates attended : 16 passed ;
one was postponed.
At the Final Examination held upon the
5th, 6th and 7th January, the following'
passed the examination, and their names are
arranged in order of merit:—
1." Christopher E. Callan.
2. Daniel P. O'Connor, B.A.,N.U.I.
3. William D. Coyne, B.A., N.U.L
4. William Devoy.
5. Arthur J. Beatty, B.A., T.C.D.
6. Thomas J. Graham.
7. William J. Concannon.
8. John D. Mclldowie.
9. John M. Ford.
10. Thomas Murphy.
11. Stephen H. Lynch.
12. Edmund W. Mooney.
13. Thomas H. Wallace.
14. Samuel E. Williarhs.
15. Thomas O. Davis.
16. Lancelot I. N. Lloyd-Blood.
.17. Donald L. Ross.
18. Robert W. McGonigal.
19. Timothy C. Crinion.
Twenty-one
candidates
attended:
19
passed ; 2 were postponed.
New Solicitors.
ADMISSIONS DURING NOVEMBER AND
.
DECEMBER, 1919, AND JANUARY, 1920.
Name
Served Apprenticeship to
Bolger, John Joseph
M. J. O'Connor, Wex-
ford.
Branigan, Lawrence F. ... Matthew Dolan,Dublin
Browne, Percival Hugh
W. S. Hayes, Dublin
Clare, William T.
... H. R. Maunsell, Dublin
Exshaw, Sydney
... William Martin, Mona-
ghan
Hoy, Bernard B.
...
John Hoy, Dungannon
MacMenamin William T.
William Kelly, Letter-
kenny
McCoy, Richard Henry ... W. F. McCoy, Clones
McDonald, David 1).
... H. D. Keane, Water-
ford.
Meredith, Raymond Carew F. W. Meredith,Dublin
Moore, Cecil Percival
... M. A. Lynch, Dublin
Murphy, John Anthony
P. A. Murphy, Water-
ford
O'Sullivan, Philip J.
... F. O'Sullivan, Kinsale
Ryan, Edward Thomas ... L. J. Ryan, Thurles
Sainsbury, Reginald A. ... W. D. Sainsbury,
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[Dublin.
Dixon Joseph H.
"(
Under Sec. 29 oi Solicitors
Hayes, Samuel
)
(Ireland) Act, 1808.