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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[DECEMBER, 1910
Brenan, R. T. Holmes, T. M. Gerrard, V.
Kilbride, S. M. Bell, A. H. Burne, B. G.
Barton, E. H. Burne, J. J. Cartan, T. H.
R. Craig, W. J. Ryan, M. C. O'Halloran,
G. E. G. White, G. T. C. Roe, C. H.
Monsarrat, W. G. Bradley, J. V. Murphy,
J. W. Dyas, F. R. M. Crozier, H. Bonass,
H. R. Maunsell, E. E. Merrick, J. Brady,
G. A. Byrne, W. J. Byrne, G. H. Parkes,
E. N. Edwards, C. Friery, J. Vanston, M.
Hayden, R. A. Andrews, C. H. Hardman,
C. P. O'Neill, E. McNeill, W. H. Geoghegan,
T. W. Fitzgerald, F. Gordon, E. Brady,
J. McDermott, M. A. Smyth, J. P. Collins,
P. Scales, H. D. Vaughan, E. St. C. Bell,
T. C. Perrott, C. P. Wilson, J. Barry Brown,
G. A. Overend, H. P. Mayne, J. Moore,
R. Scholefield, A. H. S. Orpen, F. H.
Croskerry, J. Minton.
The Secretary (Mr. W. G. Wakely) read the
notice convening
the meeting,
also
the
minutes of the Half-yearly General Meeting,
held upon 13th May, which latter were signed
by the President.
The President signed the audited accounts
of the Society for year ending 30th April,
1910.
The Secretary read the report of
the
Scrutineers of the Ballot for Election of
Council
for
the year ending
the 26th
November, 1911, which stated that the follow
ing had been returned unopposed as Pro
vincial Delegates :—Henry Blackall,
for
Munster; Thomas M. Greer, for Ulster;
M. M. Buggy, for Leinster; William P.
Kelly, for Connaught; and that the following
having received the number of votes placed
after their names, had been elected as the
thirty-one ordinary members of the Council:—
R. A. Macnamara, 232 ; W. S. Hayes, 232 ;
Sir A. Baker, 227; W. J. Shannon, 225;
'Sir G. Roche, 225; George Collins, 214;
Gerald Byrne, 207; William Fry, 206;
F. C. E. Bland, 205 ;
S. J. Brown, 203 ;
P. J. Brady, 203 ;
R. S. Reeves, 203 ;
W.
V. Seddall, 196; J. P. Lynch, 192; C. St.
G. Orpen, 192; J. W. Richards, 184; J.
A. Denning, 184 ;
G. Lyster, 175 ;
R. G.
Warren, 170 ;
H. J. Synnott, 167 ;
C. A.
Stanuell, 166;
I. J. Rice, 163; A. E.
Bradley, 161 ;
James Henry, 160; R. B.
White,
157;
C. Gamble,
152;
F. W.
Meredith, 148 ; T. C. Franks, 143 ; A. Lloyd-
Blood, 142;
J. G. Fottrell, 137; A. V.
Montgomery, 136.
And the following to
form a supplemental list to fill vacancies :—
T. W. Fitzgerald, 135 ;
James Moore, 120 ;
J. R. O'Connell, 119.
THE
PRESIDENT,
in moving
the
adoption of the Annual Report of the Council,
said :—The next business is that I should
move the adoption of the Annual Report.
I am glad to notice an increase in the member
ship—773, as against 756 last year. We
expected something more, having regard to
the new Bye-Laws we issued, but probably
they have not yet had sufficient time to
operate.
It is with the greatest regret the
Council have to record the death of Mr.
Galloway, who was for 24 years a member of
the Council. His death, occurring as it did
so suddenly, came upon us with a great
shock.
The most important matter in the Re
port
is
that
referring
to County Court
procedure. The question of the amendment
of County Court procedure so as to give
further
jurisdiction
in certain
important
matters, and to facilitate the more rapid
issue of decrees, has been the subject of
numerous attempts at
legislation. Lord
Ashbourne, when Lord Chancellor, took a
great interest in this matter, and introduced
in the House of Lords Bills dealing with the
subject, which passed that House on four
different occasions, in the years 1900, 1901,
1902 and 1905, but, I presume, owing to the
pressure of other business, those Bills only
received a first reading in the House of
Commons, and were not further proceeded
with.
The next step
in connection with this
question was the introduction in the House
of Commons, in the year 1907 by Mr. John
Gordon, K.C., M.P., of a measure which, I
believe, had the approval of the Recorder of
Dublin. This Bill, not having been dealt
within that year, was re-introduced by Mr.
Gordon in the year 1908.
It dealt only with
procedure in the County Court of Dublin,
but did not apply to any other part of
Ireland, and only obtained a first reading.
In the year 1909 an entirely new Bill was
introduced by Mr. Field, M.P., which also
only referred to the County and City of
Dublin.
It was one of three clauses, and
provided that the Lord Chancellor, with the