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MAY, 1938
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FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL
28th April.
Twenty-eight members present.
Examinations.
The Report of the Court of Examiners
upon the April Examinations of the Society
was submitted and adopted.
Professorship.
The Council elected Mr. Matthew Purcell,
Solicitor, to be Professor of Common Law
to the Society.
District Courts.
A
letter was read from
the Secretary
of the Department of Justice stating in
reply to the request of the Council, that
each District Court Clerk should be furnished
with a large scale map of the District Court
Area to which he is attached, that having
regard to the existing means of ascertaining
the addresses of the inhabitants of the area,
and having regard to the expenses which
would be involved in the supplying of the
suggested map, the Minister is not satisfied
that he would be justified in approving of
such expenditure.
OBITUARY
MR- WILLIAM
JOHNSON, Solicitor, died
on the llth April, 1938, at his residence,
31 Woodhouse Road, Mansfield, Nottingham.
Mr. Johnson was admitted
in Hilary
Sittings, 1888 and practised as a member
of the firm of Johnson and Rutherford at
Newry, Co. Down.
MR. ROBERT T. H. TIGHE, Solicitor, died
on the 10th April, 1938, at Chicago, U.S.A.
Mr. Tighe served his apprenticeship with
the
late Mr.
Jeremiah McCarthy, Sligo,
was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1899 and
practised at Sligo and subsequently at Dublin
up to 1906.
MR. JAMES F. MCMAHON LYNCH, Solicitor,
died on the 19th April, 1938.
Mr. Lynch served his apprenticeship with
his father, the late Mr. James Lynch, Ennis,
was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1922 and
practised at Ennis.
PROFESSOR OF COMMON LAW
The Council, upon 28th April, elected
Mr. Matthew Purcell, Solicitor, to be Pro
fessor of Common Law to the Society.
Mr. Purcell is M.A., (Lond.). He obtained
first place at the Society's Intermediate
Examination, first place and silver medal
at
the Final Examination,
the Overend
Final Examination Scholarship
and
the