156 / 216
THE GAZETTE
OF THE
Inr0rp0rai£ir fain j$0ri£t|r 0f Jits! anil.
Vol. XXXVII, No. 1]
MAY, 1943
[
FOR CIRCULATION
AMONGST MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
29th April, 1943.
The President in the Chair.
Present : J. P. Carrigan.Vicc-President; J.
S. O'Connor, Vice-President; Ci. A. Overend ;
Daniel O'Connell; William J. Norman ; H. P.
Mayne; F. J. W. Barley; S. 0 hUadhaigh;
J. J. Bolger ;" C. G. Stapleton ; W. G. Bradley;
M. E. .Knight; P. R. Boyd; P. F. O'Reilly ;
E. F. Collins ; H. O'Donnell; Peter O'Connor;
L. E. O'Dea; R. A. Macaulay ; J. J. Smyth ;
H. St. J. Blake ; J. Travers Wolfe ; A. Cox ;
Roger Greene.
Apprentices in the Defence Forces.
It was decided to ask the Government to
make an Order under the Emergency Powers
Act, 1939, entitling the Council, at their
discretion, in cases where they are satisfied
that a solicitor's apprentice has, during the
period of his indentures, served in the De
fence Forces of the State or in any public
service connected with the present emergency,
declaring that the period of such service
shall
for
all purposes be
reckoned as
time duly served under his indentures of
apprenticeship.
Legal Education.
A Committee of the Council was appointed
to consider
the education,
training and
discipline of solicitors' apprentices and to
report to the Council as to what changes, if
any, should be made in the present system.
State Aid for Prisoners.
The Council considered the report of a
deputation of the Council which interviewed
the Attorney General with a view to securing
more adequate remuneration for solicitors
defending prisoners on assignments. Further
consideration of the report was adjourned
pending a communication from the Attorney
General.
Unqualified Person.
The Secretary reported that he had sub
mitted a case to Counsel for advice as to the
institution of proceedings against an unquali
fied person under Section 53 Solicitors' (Ire
land) Act, 1898.
OBITUARY.
MR. MICHAEL HEARTY, Solicitor, died in
New Zealand as a result of an air accident on
the 21st December, 1942.
Mr. Hearty served his apprenticeship to
the late Mr. Levins J. O'Reilly, of Dublin,
and practised at
17 Parliament Street,
Dublin, up to the year 1927.
MR. HUGH C. COCHRANE, Solicitor, died on
7th May, 1943, in Dublin.
Mr. Cochrane served his apprenticeship to
Mr. Robert A. Wilson, Londonderry, was
admitted in Michaelmas Sittings, 1897, and
practised in Strabane up to the year 1910,
when he was appointed Sheriff for County
Donegal.