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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[MAY, 1916
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :
May 24th.
June 14th and 28th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during April:
House, Library and Finance, 3rd.
Gazette, llth.
Court of Examiners, 13th.
The Sinn Fein Insurrection.
AT the meeting of the Council held upon the
10th May,
the following
resolution was
adopted, and copies directed to be sent to
His Majesty the King, the Prime Minister,
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the
Lord Lieutenant:
Resolved '' The Council of the Incor–
porated Law Society of Ireland, at their
first meeting since the Sinn Fein insurrec–
tion in Ireland, hereby tender to His
Gracious Majesty the King the assurance
of their continued loyalty to his person
and Throne.
The Council express their
abhorrence
and
condemnation
of
the
scenes of outrage and destruction which
have taken place, and urge upon His
Majesty's Government
the
justice and
necessity of providing promptly the funds
necessary for restoring the buildings and
property destroyed, and for compensating
adequately all
loyal subjects who have
suffered by reason of the outbreak."
Obituary.
MR. PATRICK LAVERTY, Solicitor, Belfast,
died upon the 5th March, 1916, in London.
Mr. Laverty served his apprenticeship with
the late Mr. Andrew McErlean, Belfast, was
admitted
in Easter Sittings,
1895,
and
practised at 21 Chichester Street, Belfast.
MR.
JOHN W. KILLEEN, Solicitor, died
upon the 4th April, 1916, at his residence,
6 Mount Street Crescent, Dublin.
Mr. Killeen was apprenticed to the late
Mr. William Slattery, 51 Dame Street, Dublin,
was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1889, and
practised (under the style of Messrs. Michael
Larkin and Company) at 51 Dame Street,
Dublin.
'
MR. CHARLES S. GRAHAM, Solicitor, died
upon the 10th April, 1916, at his residence,
Loughrea, County Galway.
Mr. Graham served his apprenticeship with
the late Mr. Robert W. Peebles, 9 North
Frederick Street, Dublin, was admitted in
Hilary Sittings,
1883,
and practised at
Loughrea.
MR. JAMES McLEAN, Solicitor, died upon
the 14th April, 1916, at his residence, Plas
Merdyn, Holywood, County Down.
Mr. McLean served his apprenticeship
with his father, the late Mr. James McLean,
Belfast, was admitted in Hilary Term, 1869,
and practised (as a member of the firm of
Messrs. McLean, Boyle and McLean) at
Belfast up. to the year 1888, in which year
he was appointed Resident Magistrate, which
position he held up to the year 1911, when he
retired. He subsequently, in 1915, resumed
practice as a Solicitor with the firm in Belfast
of which he was previously a member.
New Members.
THE
following
joined the Society during
April, 1916 :
Sullivan, Daniel, 51 Dame Street, Dublin.
Ward, Peter J., Killybegs, Co. Donegal.
Defence of Prisoners.
THE following particulars were obtained by
the President at an interview with Military
Authorities at Richmond Barracks, Dublin,
on 16th May :
(1) Letters written to prisoners reach the
prisoners.
If therefore a relative wish to
instruct a Solicitor to act for a prisoner,