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GAZETTE
JULY 1996
WARNING - Stolen Land Certificates
We have been advised that the safe
containing the following Land
Certificates has been stolen.
'List of stolen Land Certificates
1. Land Certificate Folio 34812
County Galway - John Bane.
2. Land Certificate Folio 20204
County Galway - Thomas
Broderick.
3. Land Certificate Folio 13393F
. County Galway - Bridget
Brannelly.
4. Land Certificate Folio 24606
County Galway - Mary-Ann
Caulfield.
5. Land Certificate Folio 14028F
County Galway - Conor B. Fahy.
6. Land Certificate Folio 11837
County Galway - Walter and Susan
Francis.
7. Land Certificate Folio 5648 County
Galway - Margaret Flaherty.
8. Land Certificate Folio 30395F
County Galway - Catriona
Greaney.
9. Land Certificate Folio 18624F
County Galway - Catriona Greaney.
10. Land Certificate Folio 51340
County Galway - Michael Hoade.
11. Land Certificate Folio 13315F
County Galway - James and
Mary Kelly.
12. Land Certificate Folio 4763 County
Galway - Rosaleen Keane.
13. Land Certificate Folio 42426
County Galway - Rosaleen Keane.
14. Land Certificate Folio 5023 County
Galway - Derek Kennedy.
15. Land Certificate Folio 20288F
County Galway - Noel Lally.
16. Land Certificate Folio 30884
County Galway - John Moran.
17. Land Certificate Folio 5831 -
Thomas Manton.
18. Land Certificate Folio 33989F
County Galway - Michael and
Mary Mclnerney.
19. Land Certificate Folio 7682F
County Galway - Hayden and
Carmel Moore.
20. Land Certificate Folio 27463F
County Galway - Thomas and
Eileen Melody.
21. Land Certificate Folio 21869F
County Galway - Brian and
Sheila Parr.
22. Land Certificate Folio 35544
County Galway - Patrick Ruane.
23. Land Certificate Folio 29059F
County Galway - Stephen Quinn.
Should any solicitor come across any of
the Land Certificates, please contact the
Editor.
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"No less ill-informed is the criticism
generally heard of the long vacation
which begins at the end of July and
goes on to October 10. The popular
notion is that it is to suit the
convenience of the judges . . . whereas
the present arrangement is primarily
for the convenience of the
solicitors profession.
"The solicitors say (and they must be
allowed to know their own business
best) that it takes them six weeks to
clear up the business left over at the
end of the legal year and to prepare
their work for the coming year . . . and
that the remaining four weeks of the
Long Vacation are all too short to
enable them to provide for the
holidays of their staffs and their
own holidays."
McEntee's much shorter memorandum
of 29 May 1953 began by reviewing
the 30-year history of the judiciary,
revealing that requests in 1930, and
again in 1935, for the appointment of
additional High Court judges had been
rejected. The Government instead, and
for various reasons, increased the
number on the Supreme Court. It also
provided for its judges to sit as High
Court ones where necessary - one of
Boland's "palliatives".
McEntee went on to "strongly
recommend to the Government that
the proposal to appoint an additional
judge of the High Court should not
be approved."
He wished to "draw attention" to "the
recent report of the Select Committee
on judicial salaries, etc., in which it is
stated that 'to make for the more
economic and expeditious
administration of the law, the
Committee is of opinion that the
Courts where necessary should sit for
longer hours each day, that as far as
possible each judge and justice
should sit on five days each week, and
that the Summer vacation should
be shortened'."
His main concern, as befits a Minister
for Finance, was with cost. He was
"seriously perturbed as to the
psychological effect of an
announcement to appoint an additional
judge costing about £4,000 a year . . .
at a time when every effort, is being
made to reduce the cost of the public
service". This point was sharpened by
the fact that the judiciary were about
to receive a pay rise.
And, in what should have been a
knock-down argument, he went on to
"invite the attention of the
Government to the following
statement made by the Minister for
Justice on 22 April, 1953" (that is, just
two short weeks before he heard from
the President of the High Court) "in
the course of the debates on the Justice
group of Votes".
There, Boland said: "I do not want to
criticise the judges but I think it would
be no harm if while the congestion is
on they cut the long vacation a bit
shorter and maybe arranged a longer
day. It would not be any harm for them
to consider that."
Boland, and the High Court, got its
extra judge. The decision raised the
number on the High Court bench from
six to seven. From there numbers rose
remorselessly. There were eight by
1974, and nine by 1979. There are
now 17 with the promise of two
more to come. The other courts have
grown apace.
• Kieran Conway is a freelance
journalist
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