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Vol. 45
No. 8
February,
1952
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND
President
A
rthur
C
ox
Vice-Presidents
D
esmond
R.
C
ounahan
l l
.
d
.
G
erald
J.
O ’D
onnell
Secretary
E
ric
A.
P
lunkett
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT
I
f
you have not already taken out and stamped
your Registrar’s certificate you should do so immedi
ately. The final date for stamping certificates in
time was 5th February, 1952. A late certificate
must be produced to the Society for noting within
one month o f stamping and will be effective for the
purpose o f taxation of costs only from the date of
such production.
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
3
ist
J
anuary
,
1952. The President in the Chair.
Also present: Messrs. Desmond R. Counahan and
Gerald J . O’Donnell, Vice-Presidents; Joseph P.
Tyrrell, Joseph Barrett, Patrick F. O’Reilly, Patrick
R. Boyd, James J. O’Connor, Ralph J. Walker,
Reginald J. Nolan, Francis J . Lanigan, William J.
Norman, Dermot P. Shaw, Niall S. Gaffney, James
R. Quirke, John J . Sheil, Louis E. O’Dea, Derrick
M. Martin, Thomas A. O’Reilly, Sean O hUadhaigh,
George G. Overend, John Carrigan, John J. Nash.
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The Council, standing in silence, passed a vote
of sympathy with the relatives o f the late Mr. Daniel
O’Connell, Dundalk. Mr. O’Connell was a member
o f the Council for many years until his death and
served as President in the year i945~’46.
The following was among the business trans
acted :—
Signing o f petitions by prisoners
A
member
was instructed by a prisoner under
conviction and sentence to prepare a petition to
the Minister for Justice for a remission o f the
sentence. When he attended at the jail with the
petition he was told by the Governor that a rule
had been made that prisoners might submit petitions
prepared by themselves but not by third parties.
The Secretary reported that he had been in corres
pondence on the subject with the Department,
and read a letter from the Department stating that
petitions prepared for prisoners by members o f
the public, including solicitors, may not be signed
by the prisoner without permission from the
Department, that in the case mentioned the petition