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Vol. 37
No.
IO
April
1944
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
Presiilfiif:
LOUIS
E. O'DEA
/'
ii'e-Pr-t'xiilt'iii.i:
ROBERT A. MACAULAY
AHTHUR
COX
ERIC
A.
PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
MARCH 23rd. The President in the Chair. Present :
Messrs. A. Cox,Vice-President, Greene, E. Stapleton,
Merrick, O'Reilly, Boyd, P. O'Connor, Smyth,
Wolfe, Carrigan, Hamill, J. S. O'Connor, 0 hUad-
haigh, Overend, Norman, Mayne, Darley, Haves,
O'Connell, Lynch, Fitzgerald, Dunne.
Solicitors' Bill.
THE COUNCIL considered a report from a Com
mittee of the Council on a memorandum received
from the Department of Justice.
Lectures and Articles by Solicitors.
THE COUNCIL passed the following resolution :—
"Any activity on the part of a solicitor of a self-
advertising nature designed to attract business is
clearly not permissible; lectures delivered or
articles published by a solicitor contrary to this
principle therefore necessarily involve a breach
of professional etiquette."
Betting Act (District Court and Garda
Siochana) Regulations, 1931.
ON A REPORT from a Committee, the Council
directed that the attention of solicitors should be
drawn to an error in form 5 in the Schedule to
the above regulations, which states that the time
for lodging an appeal to the District Court against
the refusal by a Superintendent of the Garda
Siochana of a certificate of fitness is 21 days,
whereas the time, in fact, is onlv 14 days under
.the Betting Act, 1931 s. 13 (2).
CURRENT TOPICS.
Mortgage as Security for Untaxed Costs.
A POINT affecting solicitors, who may be compelled
to accept a mortgage as security for costs due,
instead of payment, was recently decided by the
Supreme Court. The principal point in issue was