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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society ol Ireland.
[JULY, 1913
Essay Competition for the Law Society's
Gold Medal for this Session.
Certificate.
An application by a Solicitor for renewal
of his Certificate was considered, and was
granted.
Searches.
The President reported that, arising out of
a complaint of delay in furnishing a negative
search, recently made to the Council, he and
Mr. Gamble, Vice-President, attended at the
Registry of Deeds Office upon the 12th June,
by appointment, to inquire into the working
of the Searching Department of the office.
The Registrar and his assistants afforded
them every facility for investigation and the
fullest information as to the wcwk of the
searchers' department.
The President further reported that with
the existing number of searchers, delays are
inevitable during periods of pressure, and
without a largely increased staff that all
searches could not be proceeded with as they
came in.
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The Registrar stated that such -a staff
would be needed only in times of extreme
pressure, and would be too numerous for the
normal work of the office, and he added that
his present staff of qualified searchers
is
sufficient for the work of the office, and that
he would not feel justified in suggesting any
increase.
Easter and Whitsuntide Holidays.
The President informed the Council that
he had submitted to the Supreme Court rule
recommending authority
the draft of a
proposed new rule in lieu of the existing
Rule 1 of Order LXIII. of the Rules of the
Supreme Court, 1905. and that the draft rule
had that day been adopted without any
modification.
The notice of the proposal to make this
new rule which has been published in the
Dublin Gazette,
is reproduced in this GAZETTE.
Death of Lord Ashbourne.
AT the opening of Trinity Sittings upon the
2nd June, reference was made in the Court of
Appeal to the death of Lord Ashbourne by
the Lord Chancellor, the Solicitor-General,
and by the President. The President said :—
" My Lord Chancellor, if I may be permitted
" on behalf of the Solicitors' profession, I should
" like to add my very humble tribute to the
" memory of
a great and distinguished
" Irishman who has passed away from us, and
" of whom we are all, as Irishmen, justly proud.
" My particular reason for interfering is that
" by the death of Lord Ashbourne the Incor-
" porated Law Society has lost one of its truest
" and staunchest friends. Himself a son of-a
" past esteemed member of the Council of the
" Society, he always took the deepest and
" keenest interest in all our work. He was
" always ready to expend his time and energy
"in promoting the objects forwhich our Society
" exists. We mourn his1 loss, but his influence
" will be long felt in our Council.
' Though
" dead, he yet speaketh.' During his long life
" and distinguished service to the State as Lord
" Chancellor of Ireland he had exceptional
"opportunities of coming into contact not only
" with past Presidents and members of the
" Council of the Society, but also with the
" individual members, and we all owe him a
" deep debt for his unfailing courtesy and
" patience, and forhis encouragement when
'' encouragement was often needed. In public
" life he was a tower of strength to his friends,
" but I think it is a greater tribute still that he
" was a generous antagonist to his opponents.
" Both friends and opponents, if, indeed, he
" had any opponents in later life, must now
" deplore the sad termination of a very brilliant
" career. On behalf of my brethren throughout
" the length and breadth of Ireland I would
" on this public occasion offer their sympathy
" to Lady Ashbourne and her family on the
" very sad bereavement that has fallen upon
" them."
At the meeting of the Council upon the 4th
June, the President read a letter he had
received from Mr. Justice Gibson thanking
him
for his
reference
to
the
late Lord
Ashbourne in the Court of Appeal, on the
opening day of the Sittings.
The Council passed the following resolution,