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Vol. IX, No. 5.]
November, 1915.
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L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
October 6th.
Solicitors and Apprentices Killed in Action.
A resolution was passed expressing the
sympathy of the members of the Council
with their colleague, Mr. John W. Richards,
in his bereavement owing to his son, Captain
(Adjutant) W. R. Richards, Solicitor, having
been killed in action in the Dardanelles.
Resolutions were also passed expressing
the sympathy of the members of the Council
with the relatives of Captain J. V. Dunn,
Private W. P. Bridge, and Corporal Persse,
Solicitors ; and Captain M. Fitzgibbon, Lieut.
Hartley Schute, and Lieut. Lee Tolerton,
Apprentices, all of whom were killed in action
in the Dardanelles.
Debt Collecting Circulars.
A letter was read from a country Solicitor
enclosing printed circular letter issued by a
shopkeeper to debtors demanding payment
of debts, and signed in a local Solicitor's
name, but without the word " Solicitor."
It was ordered that if satisfactory evidence
be
forthcoming,
proceedings under
the
Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, be instituted
against the shopkeeper.
Courts
(Emergency Powers) Act,
1914.—
County Court Costs.
A report was submitted from the County
Courts Committee, to whom the Scale of
County Court
Fees under
the Courts
(Emergency Powers) Act, 1914, issued by
the County Court Judges in July last was
referred by the Council.
The Committee
reported that they had inquired as to the
fees at present allowed throughout Ireland,
and had ascertained that they were in nearly
all Counties in excess of those mentioned in
the scale issued by the County Court Judges.
The Committee had drafted a new scale, and
forwarded it to the County Court Judges
with a request that it be adopted in substitu
tion of the scale issued in July. A letter
received in reply stated that the Judges
considered in view of the temporary character
of these costs the scale should not be allowed
on any more liberal basis, that they recognised
the costs as agreed upon by them are at a
low figure ;
that the scale was intentionally
adopted in view of the circumstances under
which the legislation was passed, but that in
exceptional circumstances any Judge could,
of course, give a larger fee if in his discretion
he thinks it just to do so.
This matter will be further dealt with in
the Annual Report of the Council, and the
Judges' Scale of Fees and the Scale prepared
by the Committee will be given in detail.
Apprentice Application.
•
A
letter was
read from an
intending
apprentice asking the Council not to offer
opposition to an application by him under
Section 25 for liberty during his apprentice
ship to engage in journalistic work out of
office hours.
It was decided not to oppose
the application.
October 20th.
•
Resolutions of Sympathy.
Letters were read from Mr. Richards, Mr.
Dunn, Mrs. Langley, and Mr. Geoghegan (the
master of the late Lieut. Tolerton) thanking
the Council for resolutions of sympathy.