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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MARCH, 1918
John
J. Mackenzie,
Solicitor,
114
Stephen's Green, Dublin.
John R. Peart, Solicitor, 35 Westmore-
land Street, Dublin.
William P. Triston, Solicitor,
i Dame
Street, Dublin.
John S. Dalton, Clerk of Petty Sessions,
Abbeyfeale.
Arthur
A.
Harris,
Land
Agent's
Assistant, Mitchelstown.
New Solicitors
THE following were admitted during January
and February, 1918 :—
Name
Served Apprenticeship to
Crotty, James F.
...
P. A. Murphy, Waterford
Duffy, Edward Joseph .. William L. B. Cochrane,
18 Harcourt St.. Dublin
Kelly, Richard Jasper... Edward McHug-h, 43 Rut
land Square, Dublin
Kelly, Thomas J.
... William
P.
Triston,
i
Dame Street, Dublin
Kennedy, Patrick J.
...
John H. Callan, i Suffolk
Street, Dublin
McCay, Cyril Francis ...
Samuel Jones, Cavan
Murphy,Chas. Kavanagh Michael Murphy, Cork
Nally, William F.
...
John
J. McDonald,
116
Grafton Street, Dublin
O'Reilly, William Ernest Edwin M. Llo)d,i3 Lower
Ormond Quay, Dublin
Peart, John Redmund, exempt from apprenticeship
under Section 29 of the Solicitors' (Ireland)
Act, 1898.
Ministry of Justice.
AT a Special General Meeting of the English
Law Society, held on the 25th January, 1918,
the President (Mr. Samuel Garrett), on behalf
of the Council of the Society, moved, and
the Vice-President
(Mr. R. A. Pinsent)
seconded the following motion, which, after
discussion, was adopted
nem con :—
" (i) That in the opinion of this General
" Meeting of the Law Society a Ministry of
" Justice
is necessary
in
the national
" interests."
" (2) That a copy of
the foregoing
" resolution be sent to the Prime Minister,
" the Lord Chancellor,
the Minister of
" Reconstruction, and to such other persons
" as the Council may determine."
The President, when moving 'the motion,
read the following address, which by permis
sion, is here re-printed :—
In the momentous times through which we are
passing—probably
the most momentous
in
the
recorded history of mankind—it behoves every
organised body of men to consider their position
and what part they are fitted to play, in the period
of reconstruction which is before us. Everything
is to be changed. Nothing will be the same as in
the pre-war days which now seem so far off.
Amongst other things our opinions, our predilections
and our prejudices, our methods and our institutions,
must be reconsidered and brought into harmony
with the altered needs of the times.
Therefore we of this Society are only doing our
duty as citizens and our duty to our profession in
asking ourselves, as I invite you to do to-day,
whether our present position and our relations to
the public are satisfactory to ourselves and to the
public, and whether we are fitted by our organisa
tion, our traditions and our professional rules to
play the part which the legal profession ought to
play in the reconstructed body politic of which
we
have visions. And if our answers to these enquiries
are not satisfactory to us, then it is our duty to
search for the remedy.
As a
learned profession we claim
that our
vocation is not only one
by
which we live but is also
one
for
which we live.
In other words, we claim
that having gone through a specialised educational
training, our object is to supply to our clients
disinterested counsel and service without expecta
tion of any business gain to ourselves beyond the
definite remuneration stipulated or fixed by law—
that we can have no interest in the matters on which
we advise except the interest of our clients, the
safeguarding of which is the sole object of our
intervention.
If we had nothing but pecuniary rewards and
honours to look to, our profession would not be one
which it would be worth the while of a man of
ability and character to follow. But as the medical
profession ministers to the body and the clerical
profession to the soul, so it is our office—and it is
j
a proud and high office—to safeguard and protect
the fortune and business interests, and often the
character and reputation, of those whom we serve,
and thus to help to preserve to them the peace of
mind without which life is not worth living.
It is
the performance of this duty which gives dignity to
the profession and affords scope for energy and
talent.
We claim that in intention this high ideal is
attained.
If the intention is carried into practice,
the result ought to be a feeling of regard and
confidence on the part of the public towards our
profession, which I am afraid it must be admitted
is not fully attained.
I do not wish to be mis
understood.
In many thousands of individual cases
there does exist, I am happy to say, that feeling of
regard and confidence on the part of the client
towards his solicitor which is one of the consolations
of an anxious and
laborious profession. But
towards the profession as a whole the public senti
ment is far otherwise, and in my opinion it is wise