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Vol. I, No. 9.]
March, 1908.
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LAMONQST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
THE Council met upon Wednesday, the 12th
February. The President (Mr. G. H. Lyster)
in the Chair, and twenty-two other members
present. A letter was read from the Law Agent
of the Dublin Corporation in reply, stating that
the Corporation had instructed him not to pro
ceed any further with clause 87 of the Various
Powers Bill, dealing with the extension of the
jurisdiction of the Court of Conscience.
A letter was read from the Hon. Secretary
of the Solicitors' Bar Association of the County
and City of Dublin, enclosing amendments to
the Civil Bill Courts (Dublin) Bill introduced
last year, asking the Council to take steps to
have the amendments inserted in the Bill when
introduced this year. A reply was directed to
be sent informing the Solicitors' Bar Associa-_
tion of the action which the Council had already
taken in reference to this Bill, which has been
again introduced this year.
Applications by three solicitors- for renewal
of their annual certificates were considered ;
and orders were made granting the three
applications.
A letter was directed to be written to the
solicitors for the Local Government Board
requesting that arrangements should be made
whereby solicitors interested in the taxation of
bills of costs under the Labourers (Ireland) Act.
1906, should receive notice of the time and
place of taxation, and should be afforded an
opportunity of being present thereat.
A memorial of an intending apprentice pre
sented to the Lord Chancellor and Judges
named in section 18 of the Solicitors (Ireland)
Act,.1898, seeking exemption from the Pre
liminary Examination, was considered, and it
was resolved to ask their Lordships to refuse
the prayer of the memorial, and to suggest that
the case was a suitable one in which to grant
a modified preliminary examination within the
terms of their Lordships' minute of the izth
May, 1892.
An application from the Solicitors' Appren
tices' Debating Society for the use of the Hall
of the Society upon the aoth inst., for an inter-
debate with the University College Debating
Society, was granted.
The Council adjourned until the 26th inst.
The Council met upon Wednesday the 26th
February. The President (Mr. G. H. Lyster)
in the Chair, and twenty-three other members
present.
A letter was read from the Lord Chancellor's
Secretary, stating that the Lord Chancellor had
before him the memorial of a law clerk, and
also the letter from the Secretary in reference to
same, and that while His Lordship could not
accede to the prayer of the Memorial as regards
exemption from the Preliminary Examination
and attendance at Lectures, His Lordship
consents to the applicant being granted the
modified examination mentioned in the Judges'
Minute of the I2th May, 1892.
A letter was read from the solicitors of the
Local Government Board, acknowledging the
receipt of the letter of the Secretary of the 12th
inst., and stating that they would lay same
before the Local Government Board, and take
their directions.
A list of questions on the amalgamation or
fusion of the professions of barrister and soli
citor, received from the Transvaal Legislative
Assembly, was submitted, and was referred to
the Court of Examiners for consideration and
report.
Memorials from two apprentices, applying for
liberty to have their indentures assigned, were
sanctioned.