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Circuit Court Office for a trial peiord since April 1968.
Solicitors wishing to take up draft orders should attend
at the office and bespeak the particular draft order if
required. When the draft has been settled the engross-
ment should be made by the solicitor in the usual way
and lodged for signature.
The following draft orders are now available :
1. Civil Liability Order (without counterclaim)
2. Civil Liability Order (with counterclaim)
3. Ejectment Decree.
4. Ordinary Decree
5. Decrees for return of chattel
6. Order for service out of the jurisdiction
7. Order for Substituted Service
8. Workmen's Compensation Act Decree
9. Landlord and Tenant Act cases
Other orders will be available later.
Thelma King (
Hon Secretary)
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO
On 11th February 1871
The Solicitors' Journal
reported
the speeches at the inaugural dinner of the Solicitors'
Benevolent Society for Ireland held in the Hall of
King's Inns, Dublin, and presided over by Lord Chan-
cellor O'Hagan :
"The Lord Chancellor said he had now to give the
toast of the evening—'The Solicitors' Benevolent
Society, and might prosperity attend it'. . . . He came
there for the purpose of having that done in Ireland
which had been done year after year in England, where
the chief judges of the land attended on occasions
precisely like that. . . . He came there . . . because he
thought that the two branches of the great legal pro-
fession should stand in relations of amity and confi-
dence to one another. . . . These two branches, in his
opinion, ought not to be amalgamated. It was best for
the community that they should perform their separate
functions. The experiment had been tried in America
and had grossly failed; and he hoped that it would
never be tried in Ireland or England. .. . The place of
the solicitor was . . . honoured, responsible, and vitally
important to society and the world. He was the man in
whom was reposed the confidence of families; who
held the muniments in which the titles of families and
property subsisted; and who received and disbursed
large sums of money without anything to protect his
client, except his client's belief in his integrity. He was a
man to whom the most delicate, secret and important
affairs of life were trusted. His position was, therefore,
a proud one, and the body to which he belonged had
no reason to be jealous of any other. But . . . the body of
solicitors was liable to the vicissitudes of human life.
. .. His lordship drew from the report >of the society
illustrations of the extent to which unforeseen misfor-
tune. sickness, or old age, had reduced most respectable
members of the profession. . . . Mr. Barlow, Vice-Presi-
dent of the Society of Attorneys and Solicitors, proposed
'The Bar of Ireland'. The Attorney-General, in respond-
ing, said . . . that while the members of the bar and the
attorneys and solicitors should maintain towards each
other an attitude of complete, perfect, and manly inde-
pendence, there should . . . exist between the two profes-
sions .. . relations of general intercourse and frank and
disinterested friendship. He was himself the son of an
attorney; he was the brother of an attorney; he was the
brother-in-law of two attorneys; and he had a son who
had announced his intention of becoming an apprentice
to the deputy chairman of the Attorneys' Society. . . .
It was impossible to look round the room without being
satisfied . .. that the future career of the association
would be a brilliant success."
[The Attorney-General was Charles Barry (1823-
1897) who became a Queen's Bench judge in 1872 and
a Lord Justice of Appeal in 1883.]
RULES OF SUPERIOR COURTS
(NO. 1), 1971
S.I. No. 129 of 1971
(1) Order 4, Rule 5 (2) is henceforth amended by the
following substituted words :
"5 (2) The amount claimed for costs in respect of a
summary summons for a liquidated demand shall be.
If the demand does not exceed £5
£1.60
If the demand exceeds £5 but
does not exceed £25
£2.60
If the demand exceeds £25 but
does not exceed £50
£3.10
If the demand exceeds £50 but
does not exceed £300
£4.10
If the demand exceeds £300 but
does not exceed £600
£5.25
If the demand exceeds £600
£11.20
with £1 for each additional service after the first,
and the costs of any order for issue and service, or
service of the summons or notice in lieu thereof out
of the jurisdiction, or for substituted or other service,
of for the substitution of notice for service, or for
declaring service effected sufficient, or for any notice
bv advertisement of the issue of the summons."
(2) In Appendix W. Part III (3) the sums of £20.90,
£21.25, and £21.60 shall be deleted and the sums of
£22.90, £23.25, and 23.60 in respect of witnesses expen-
ses shall be substituted therefor respectively.
EXAMINATION GRADINGS
AND RESULTS
The following grades will be awarded in future :
Grade a
70 per cent to 100 per cent
Grade b
60 per cent to 69 per cent
Grade c
50 per cent to 59 per cent
Grade d
40 per cent to 49 per cent
Grade e
30 per cent to 39 per cent
Grade f
20 per cent to 29 per cent
Grade g
Below 20 per cent
In the official list letters after names indicate grades
obtained in each paper and aggregate marks in the
order shown. These letters are omitted here but in
future examination lists will be printed in italics after
the candidates' names in the numerical order of the
several question papers and aggregate marks obtained.
At the
Book-Keeping Examination
for apprentices to
solicitors held on March 15th the following candidates
passed :
Passed with Merit
: 1, Henry Lappin, B.G.L., LL.B.;
2, Raymond Cassidy; 3, Rory F. Conway, B.C.L.; 4,
Jeremy Blake O'Connor, B.C.L.
Passed
: Terence F. Casey; Michael Collier, B.C.L.,
LL.B.; Anthony J. J. Connolly, B.C.L.; John J. Cor-
coran; Michael Corkery, B.A.; Helen C. M. Dawson,
B.C.L.; Jeremiah Desmond, B.C.L.; Bertrand G. French;
Raymond A. Frost, B.C.L., LL.B., M.S.A.; R. Edmund
Fry; Michael Gleeson; Diarmuid Kilcullen, B.C.L.,
LL.B.; Geraldine Lynch, B.A. (Mod.); Brian J. Mahon,
B.A. (Mod.), LL.B.; Paul Thomas B. McCormack;
Seán E. McDonnell; Nicholas J. O'Keeffe, B.C.L.;
Jacqueline Ryan.
Forty candidates attended; twenty-two passed.
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