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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[DECEMBER, 1914
Hour of Sitting of Courts on Days of Judges
and Benchers Meetings.
THE following correspondence has taken place
on the above subject :—
The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts,
Dublin,
29th July,
1914.
DEAR SIR,
The Council of this Society desire to draw
the attention of the Lord Chancellor and
Judges to the inconvenience and loss of time
which arises upon the first day of Sittings,
and upon other clays when there are meetings
of the Judges or Benchers, owing to the
uncertainty of the hour at which the several
Courts will sit on such days.
The Council would suggest that there
should be an announcement in the Legal
Diary on the first day of Sittings, and on any
other day during Sittings upon which there
is a meeting of Benchers or Judges before the
Courts sit, stating an hour for each Court
before which such Court would not sit upon
such day.
I remain,
Faithfully yours,
(Signed), W. G. WAKELY,
Secretary.
J. N. Lentaigne, Esq.,
Hanaper Office,
Four Courts, Dublin.
Lord Chancellor's Secretary's Office,
Four Courts,
Dublin,
±th November,
1914.
DEAR SIR,
I have laid before a meeting of the Lord
Chancellor and Judges your letter of the
29th July last, by which the Council of the
Law Society draw attention to an incon
venience which is stated to be caused by the
uncertainty of the hour at which the Courts
respectively sit on days when meetings of
Judges or Benchers are held before the sitting
of the Court, and whilst noting the suggestions
contained in the last paragraph of your letter,
their Lordships desire me to point out that
the fixing of the hour at which each Court
will sit, rests with the particular Judge or
Judges about to sit in that Court, and not
with the general body of the Judges.
Owing to the nature of the business to be
brought before the Judges on those occasions
it is very difficult for an individual Judge to
determine
beforehand
how
long
any
particular meeting may take, as sometimes
matters that are expected to be short take
time, whilst others which are expected to
last for a time are more quickly disposed of,
and it might happen in the latter event that
a Judge would be free to proceed with the
business of his Court but would be prevented
from doing so by reason of having fixed a
later hour, which is a matter that the Judges
are always anxious to avoid.
Yours faithfully,
(Signed),
J. NUGENT LENTAIGNE.
W. G. Wakely, Esq.,
Secretary,
Incorporated Law Society.
Recent Decisions affecting Solicitors.
(Notes of decisions, whether in reported or
unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are
invited from Members.)
KING'S BENCH DIVISION (ENGLAND).
(Before Coleridge and Shearman, J.J.:
Wakefield
v.
Duckworth and another.
October
28,
1914.—
Solicitors—Order
on
behalf of client—Photographs—Action for
price.
THE plaintiff, who was a photographer, was
instructed by a Solicitor, a member of the
defendant firm, to take certain photographs
in connection with a charge, in which the
defendants were acting for the accused.
When the photographs were ordered the
plaintiff knew that the defendants were
Solicitors and that the photographs were
wanted for the trial.
In giving the order the
Solicitor requested the plaintiff to make the
charges low, as the accused was a poor man.
In an action by the plaintiff against the
defendants for the price of the photographs,
Held,
that the Solicitors were not liable.
The question to what extent Solicitors are
agents for their clients was raised in this
appeal from a decision of the Judge of the
Brentford County Court.