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THE GAZETTE
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Vol. X, No. 2.]
June, 1916.
r FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Half-Yearly General Meeting.
THE Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
Society was held in the Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts, Dublin, upon Tuesday, 16th
May, Mr. Charles St"..George Orpen, President,
in the chair.
The following members were also present :
Messrs.
].
.H. Walsh
(Vice-President),
A. H. S. Orpen
(Vice-President), A. E.
Bradley, P. J. Brady, M.P. ;
J. H. Callan,
G. Collms, W. H. Fry, C. G. Gamble, W. S.
Hayes, M. L. Hearn, J. E. MacDermott,
R. A. Macnamara, James Murphy, T. G.
Quirke, I. J. Rice, W. V. Seddall, Henry
Shannon, W. J. Shannon, VV. T. Sheridan,
H. J. Synnott, Basil Thompson, R. G.
Warren, R. Blair White, N. L. Moran, James
Brady, S. M. Bell, J. P. Collins, W. J. Ryan,
Charles Corcoran, Geo. Wheeler,
J. G.
Lidwell, M.
J. O'Neill, Patrick Rooney,
Q.. W. Kenny, J. G. Lidwell, E. S. Lowe,
H. O'B. Moran, H. C. Neilson, Edwin Lloyd,
John Read, J. W. Davis, David Dunne,
O. E. Barber, H. D. Draper, W. J. Brett,
P. Seales, and P. K. White.
The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read
the notice convening the meeting, and also
the minutes of
the Half-yearly General
Meeting held in November last, which latter
were confirmed and signed.
THE PRESIDENT nominated the follow
ing members to act as scrutineers of the
ballot for election of Council, to be held next
November:—Mr. E. F. Collins, Mr. M.
Dawson, Mr. E. N. Edwards, Mr. W.
Geoghegan, and Mr. P. K. White.
MR. WALSH moved, and Mr. A. H. S.
Orpen seconded, and it was resolved that
the following be appointed Auditors of the
accounts of the Society for the period from
1st May, 1915, to 12th May, 1916 :—Mr. W.
W. Carruthers, Mr. David Dunne, and Mr.
T. A. Ireland.
President's Address.
THE PRESIDENT,
in addressing
the
meeting, said that one of the matters to which
the Council give special attention is that of
unauthorised persons acting as Solicitors.
I
feel, he said, that the general body of Solicitors
in Ireland do not realise this. We cannot
proceed against an "illegal practitioner"
unless we have proper legal evidence to
ground our prosecution. Cases are reported
to us ;
but, when we ask the complainants
to give evidence, they, not unnaturally I
admit, do not wish to have their names mixed
up with the prosecution ;
thus we are
powerless, and yet the complainants some
times say :
" We brought the facts before
the Council, and they did nothing." During
the last six months we successfully prosecuted
in
the King's Bench Division an
illegal
practitioner,
and
the
delinquent
was
imprisoned.
The Council are determined,
as far as in them lies, to'stop all infringe
ments of
the rights of Solicitors.
Here
are we working
for
the benefit of all
the Solicitors
in
Ireland--and
all
the
Solicitors
in
Ireland, whether
they be
members of the Incorporated Law Society or
not, enjoy the benefit of our labours.
Is this
reasonable ?
Surely
every
Solicitor
in
Ireland who is worthy of the name, should