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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MAY, 1919
MR. EDWARD P. WILLIAMS, Solicitor, died
upon the 19th April, 1919.
Mr. Williams served his apprenticeship
with the late Mr. John Stanton, 50 South
Mall, Cork ; was admitted in Hilary Sittings,
1889, and practised at Dungarvan.
Commissioner to Administer Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the
following to be a Commissioner to administer
Oaths : -
Edward P. Keating, Solicitor, 130 St.
Stephen's Green, Dublin.
Honour.
MR. WILLIAM GEOGHEGAN, M.B.E., Solicitor,
19 Kildare Street, Dublin, has been appointed
a Deputy Lieutenant for the County Dublin.
Professorship of Common Law.
THE Council will, upon Wednesday,
the
25th June, elect a Professor of Common Law
to. the Society, in room of Mr. F. S. D. de V.
White (Sen. Mod.), B.A., LL.D., T.C.D.,
Solicitor, whose term of office will expire at
the end of Trinity Sittings.
The new
Professor will enter upon his duties next
Michaelmas Sittings.
The appointment will be made for one
year, and the person appointed will be
eligible for re'-appointment for each of the
four succeeding years.
A candidate for the Professorship must
either be
a practising Barrister or
a
practising Solicitor (in each case of not less
than six years' standing), and he should send
his application before the 16th June to the
Secretary of the Society.
The duties of the Professor consist of
delivering twelve lectures
in' Michaelmas
Sittings, twelve lectures in Hilary Sittings,
eighteen
lectures' in Easter and Trinity
Sittings (making in all forty-two lectures in
the year), and conducting
viva voce
examina–
tions in the subject of his lectures ;
and the
Professor also examines in Common Law
Theory at the three Intermediate Examina–
tions during the year.
The lectures take
place on Mondays and Thursdays at "two
o'clock p.m., or on such other days, or at
such other hour,
as
the Council may
determine.
Enquiry
for
any
further
particulars in reference to the Professorship
should be addressed to the Secretary.
Certificate Duty.
SOLICITORS (MILITARY SERVICE).
IN
the House of Commons on 1st May,
Mr. George Thorne asked the Chancellor of
the Exchequer whether he can arrange that
Solicitors who joined His Majesty's Forces
within three years after being admitted shall
not, as a result of their military service, lose
the benefit of the provision under which
Solicitors' certificate duty is payable at only
one-half the full rate for the first three years
!
after admission ?
Mr. Chamberlain in reply
stated : I have considered this class of case,
and have authorised the Commissioners of
Inland Revenue, on being satisfied as to the
facts, to allow a claim for repayment of half
the duty where the period which has elapsed
.from the time of the Solicitors' admission,
excluding the period of his service with the
forces, is less than three years.
Intermediate Examination.
THE July Intermediate Examination will be
held on Tuesday, the first day of July, 1919,
at ten o'clock a.m. Notice of intention to
attend the examination should be lodged in
the Secretary's Office before 15th June.
Recent Legal Decisions.
Interruption of Ordinary Employment by War
Service.
The judgment in
Cole
v.
Cole
(reported
L. R., 1919, 1 Ch. 218) is an important one,
as likely to govern many similar cases arising
out of the war. A testator possessed of a
large number of shares in a company of which
he was chairman bequeathed 60,000 shares to
his trustees in trust to assign 20,000 shares
to each of his three sons who should, prior to