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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[JUNE, 1915
MR. JAMES MOORE, Vice-President,
seconded the resolution. He said that most
of the business transacted at the May Half-
yearly Meeting was as a rule formal business
connected with the working of the Society,
and that some members of the Society would
be glad to bring matters of purely professional
interest before meetings, which they hesitated
to do in the presence of the Press.
MR. MACNAMARA said he was strongly
opposed to the resolution. The President's
statement of to-day was one of much public
interest as well as being of interest to the
profession, and he thought it desirable that
twice yearly there should be stated general
meetings open to the Press.
MR. P. J. BRADY, M.P., opposed the
resolution, and said that should questions
arise which the members considered desirable
to have discussed in the absence of the Press,
there would be no difficulty in moving that
a general meeting should " go into Com–
mittee."
MR. GAMBLE said that the meeting should
remember that this suggestion did not
originate with the Council. It was made by
the Council as a result of a letter received
from a member of the Society, in which he
said he wrote for himself and for others,
and there seemed to several members of the
Council much to be said in support of the
suggestion, but it was a matter on which the
Council were not unanimous, and the meeting
could decide it.
MR. JAMES BRADY opposed the
resolution, and stated he thought it was in
the interests of the profession and the Society
that their proceedings should be reported in
the public Press.
MR. ROONEY stated that the difficulty
could always be met by going into Committee
when any matter arose in which it was
desirable for a meeting to take that course.
MR. W. J. SHANNON replied, and stated
that he still was of opinion that in the general
interests of the Society the adoption of his
proposal was desirable.
THE PRESIDENT put the resolution, and
declared it " lost."
The proceedings then terminated.
Meetings of the Council.
May 19th.
Legal Appointments.
It was resolved that the report of the
Council upon Legal Appointments be sent to
all those in whom is vested the appointment
to any of the offices contained in '' Class C ''
of that report, being offices of a legal nature
for which Barristers, Solicitors and other
persons are eligible, with a letter drawing
attention to the grievances of the Solicitors'
profession dealt with in the report, and urging
the claims of the profession for a more liberal
recognition in the matter of such appoint–
ments.
Solicitors Volunteering for Service.
Correspondence was read in reference to
the transaction of the legal business of
a District Council during the absence of
the Solicitor of the Council who had
volunteered for military service during
the wan The following resolution was
adopted, and copies directed to be sent
to the Local Government Board, the District
Council, the Solicitor to the District Council,
and to the Solicitor whom the District
Council contemplate appointing in preference
to the temporary nominee of their present
Solicitor.
Resolved. The Council are of opinion .
that a Solicitor who volunteers for Naval
or Military Service during the present war
is entitled to receive from his professional
brethren every possible facility for the
carrying on of his business in his absence,
and where such Solicitor holds any pro–
fessional appointment the Council would
view with strong disapproval any attempt
by a member of the profession to obtain
such appointment for his own advantage.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held
upon
the following dates :
June 16th and 30th.
July 14th and 28th.