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Applications under Section 18.
THE Council considered a petition to the Chief
Justice by an intending apprentice for exemption
from the Preliminary Examination under Section
18 of the Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1898, and
decided to inform the Chief Justice that no opposi
tion would be offered to the granting of the petition.
A number of applications from apprentices were
considered and dealt with.
Seven applications from solicitors under Section
47 for liberty to take out their annual practising
certificates were considered.
Five applications
were granted on payment of the current duty ; one
application was granted on payment of two years'
duty and in one case the Council directed that a
further affidavit should be filed by the solicitor.
COUNCIL DINNER
ON
Thursday, February 2ist, the President and
members of the Council gave a Dinner in the
Members' Hall.
The following were present:—
The Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor, The Hon. the
President of the High Court, The Hon. Mr. Justice
O'Byrne, The Hon. Mr. Justice Martin Maguire,
The Hon. Mr. Justice Haugh, The Hon. Mr.
Justice Murnaghan, His Hon. Judge Shannon,
Master O'Hanlon, Master Kennedy, Mr. O'Cleirigh,
County Registrar; Mr. Chance, President, Institu
tion of Civil Engineers; Mr. Pirn, President,
Institute of Chartered Accountants; Mr. Kelly,
President, Royal
Institute of Architects ;
Mr.
Walkey, President, Society of Incorporated Account
ants in Ireland ; Mr. Pearson, President, Association
of Certified and Corporate Accountants; Mr.
Broughton, Vice-President, Dublin Chamber of
Commerce; Mr. Davy, Chairman, Dublin Stock
Exchange; Mr. O'Donovan, President, Southern
Law Association ; Mr. Bergin, President, Insurance
Institute of Ireland ; Mr. Barrett, President, Dublin
Solicitors' Bar Association; The Provost, Trinity
College, Dublin; Mr. Bennett, President, Irish
Auctioneers' and Estate Agents' Association; Mr.
Taylor, Chairman, Surveyors'
Institution; Mr,
Corrigan, Chief State Solicitor; Mr. Murphy,
Finance Solicitor ; Mr. Shannon, Revenue Solicitor;
Mr. O'Reilly, Solicitor Irish Land Commission;
Mr. Connolly, Chairman, Commissioners of Public
Works ; Mr. McElligott, Commissioner of Valua
tion ; Mr. McElligott, Secretary, Department of
Finance; Mr. Murtagh, Examiner of the High
Court of Justice; Mr. Curran, Registrar, High
Court of Justice ; Dr. Webb, Registrar of Wards of
Court; Mr. O'Byrne, Registrar of Titles; Mr.
Doyle, Official Assignee ; Mr. O'Donoghue, S.C. ;
Mr. Smyllie, Editor,
Irish Times;
Messrs. A. H. S.
Orpen, T. G. Quirke, Basil Thompson, Charles
Laverty, Past Presidents of the Society : Mr. E. F.
Collins, District Justice Kenny, Mr.' Roe, S.C. ;
Mr. Lavery, S.C. ; Mr. P. E. O'Connell- and the
following members of the Council: The President,
Messrs. Roger Greene, Vice-President; G. A.
Overend, H. P. Mayne, W. S. Hayes, J. J. Lynch,
J. T. Wolfe, L. E.
O'Dea,
H. St. J. Blake, J. P.
Carrigan, Charles MacLaughlin, J. J. Dunne, J. J.
Bolger, W. S. Huggard, J. R. Quirke, C. G. Staple-
ton, P. F. O'Reilly, J. S. O'Connor, W. L. Duggan,
W. J. Norman, George Murnaghan, J. C. Taylor,
Peter O'Connor, H. P. O'Donnell, J. P. Tyrrell,
P. R. Boyd, A. Cox, Sean O hUadhaigh, E. M.
FitzGerald, and the Secretary.
The Toast of " Ireland" was given by
the
President and honoured. The toast of the " Bench
and Bar" was proposed by Mr. W. S. Hayes.
The Hon. the President of the High Court replied
on behalf of the Bench and Mr. Cecil Lavery, S.C.,
on behalf of the Bar. The toast of " the Guests "
was proposed by Mr. Patrick F. O'Reilly.
The
Rt. Hon. the Lord Mayor and Mr. R. M. Smyllie
replied to the toast. The toast of the Society was
proposed by His Hon. Judge Shannon, coupling
therewith the name of the President. The President
replied to the toast. Mr. J. J. Lynch proposed the
toast of the Incorporated Law Society of Northern
Ireland and the Southern Law Association. Mr.
J. C. Taylor replied on behalf of the Incorporated
Law Society of Northern Ireland and Mr. J. W.
O'Donovan on behalf of the Southern Law Associa
tion. During the evening orchestral items were
rendered by Messrs. Reidy, Beckett and Kelly and
vocal items by Mr. Joseph Flood.
HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE
Examiner's Office
Mr. Justice Overend
Applications For Adjournment
SOLICITORS intending, for any reason, to apply for
the adjournment of any matter fixed for hearing
before
the Examiner or Vouching Officer are
requested, whenever possible, to give notice of such
intention in the Public Office (Room no) not later
than 3 p.m. on the day previous to that fixed for the
hearing. The case will then appear in the Legal
Diary with (Adj.) added after the title as an indica--
tion of such intended application, e.g., Brown
v.
Brown (Adj.). No party other than the applicant-
need then attend, except to oppose the Application
for an adjournment, and no costs will, in any event,
be allowed for such attendance.
Notice may be
either
verbal
(including
by
telephone—71311