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Vol. 37
No. 5
November
1943
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President :
JOHN B. HAMILL
JOHN
P. CARRIGAN
JOHN
S. O CONNOR
Secretary:
ERIC
A.
PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL
OCTOBER 7th.
The President
in
the Chair.
Present: J. P. Carrigan and J. S. O'Connor.
Vice-Presidents, W. S. Hayes, Scan OhUadhaigh.
Daniel O'Connell, J. J. Bolger, H. P. Mayne,
W. J. Norman. C. G. Stapleton. W. L. Duggan.
Roger Greene, J. T. Wolfe, P. R. Boyd, Hugh
O'DonnelL H.' St. J. Blake, A. Cox, Peter
O'Connor, J. J. Smyth, P. F. O'Reilly, J. J.
Dunne, G. A. Overend.
Enforcement of Court Orders Act
THE Secretary read a letter from a member of the
Society referring to defects in the existing pro
cedure under the Enforcement of Court Orders
Act, 1926, and stating that the procedure required
considerable amendment in order to be of service
to the public.
The matter was referred to a
Committee with power to consider the working
and effect of the Act, and make recommendations
for any suggested alterations or changes in the
present procedure.
CURRENT TOPICS
Interviewing Opponent's Witnesses
THE
Times,
of 15th July last, published an extract
from the remarks of Lewis J. in the course of a
criminal prosecution before him during which it
transpired that a woman, who had baen summoned
as a witness by the prosecution, went at the
request of the Solicitor for the accused, to his
office, and was taken through her statement by
his clerk. The Judge was reported as having said
that for a Solicitor, or for his clerk, when in
structed by a prisoner, to interview a witness for
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