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DECEMBER, 1932]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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I make this appeal to those listening to me
to use their influence to get all practising
Solicitors to join the Society. As I said
last May to the meeting, it is not unreason–
able to expect that every practising Solicitor
should prove his loyalty to his Profession
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by being a member of its governing body.
INDENTURED APPRENTICES.
Eighty-five students became Indentured
Apprentices during the year which ended
the first day of this month. This figure
corresponds practically with the figures of the
previous few years.
I have to thank the members of the Council
for their valuable assistance and support
since I was elected to the Chair, and no
speech would be complete without a reference
to the invaluable work of our Secretary,
Mr. Wakely, which we all much appreciate.
MR. T. H. R. CRAIG
(Vice-President)
seconded the adoption of the Report.
MR. T. J. GREENE referred to the request
of the Minister for Finance that Solicitors
should give returns of the total cash values
of all Stock Exchange securities acquired
personally or for clients, or sold personally
or for clients, to or from persons resident
outside Saorstat Eireann,
through Stock
Brokers resident outside Saorstat Eireann.
He said he felt that it would be a breach
of confidence between Solicitor and client
to give the information, and for his part
he would not make any return to any
Government of the kind suggested.
MR. JOYCE drew attention to the large–
ness of the number of those seeking admission
to the Profession, and suggested that steps
should be taken to lessen the number.
MR. CRAIG (Vice-President), said there
could be no breach of confidence in giving
the returns which the Minister for Finance
sought for.
He drew attention to
two
matters dealt with in the Report relating
to Circuit Court Rules, the question of the
validity of judgments by default marked
in the office of the County Registrar and the
refusal of some County Registrars to accept
the papers to lead to judgment by default
when sent through the post. He expressed
the hope that judicial decisions on those
two questions would be obtained.
THE PRESIDENT said that the matter
of the return asked for by the Minister for
Finance had been carefully considered, and
it had been made perfectly clear by the
Minister for Industry and Commerce that it
merely meant
asking
for assistance of
Solicitors in furnishing reliable information
as to Stock Exchange transactions between
persons resident in this country and else–
where. The Banks, and the Dublin and Cork
Stock brokers had agreed
to give
these
returns.
If Solicitors acted with hostility
to the Ministry they might be hit by a
section in the next Finance Act, which would
compel them to give such particulars. The
Council thought it more diplomatic to yield
to the request of the Ministry. He did not
think it would harm Solicitors, and rather
that it was up to them to assist the Ministry
in the compilation of statistics useful to the
country.
THE PRESIDENT put the resolution
adopting the report, and it was passed
unanimously.
The Chair having been taken by Mr. Craig,
Mr. C. S. G. Orpen moved, and Mr. J. E.
MacDermott seconded a vote of
thanks
to the President, which was supported by
Mr. Craig, and passed with acclamation.
THE PRESIDENT returned thanks.
THE PRESIDENT.
The Council elected on 8th December
Mr. William Gordon Bradley, of 11 Lower
Ormond Quay, Dublin, to be President of
the Society for the ensuing twelve months.
The newly-elected President was admitted
in Michaelmas Sittings, 1906, he became
a member of the Council in 1921, and was
a Vice-President of the Society in 1924-25.
He practises in partnership with his uncle
Mr. Arthur E. Bradley, a past President of
the Society.
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
The Council have elected Mr. J. Travers
Wolfe, T.D., of Skibbereen, and Mr. Peter
O'Connor
of Waterford,
to
be
Vice-
Presidents of the Society for the ensuing
twelve months.