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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[NOVEMBER, 1915
Munitions of War Act, 1915: Provisional
Rules.
A member of the Society having drawn
attention
to
the rule providing
that as
regards tribunals of the second class referred
to in the Act, no party to any proceeding
should be represented before that tribunal
by Counsel or Solicitor, the Council considered
the matter, and having regard to the state
ments contained in a letter from the Ministry
of Munitions on the subject to the English
Law Society, the Council did not consider
that they could with advantage take action
in the matter.
The letter referred to stated that the rule
in question was very carefully considered by
the Minister of Munitions, that it was to be
noted that the rule applied only to local
munitions tribunals, whose jurisdiction is
confined to minor cases arising under the Act;
that the only offences in this category are
breaches of rules of controlled establishments,
or regulations under Sec. 4 (5) of the Act,
and breaches of undertakings by workmen
under Sec. 6 (1), and that in addition these
tribunals hear complaints under Sec. 7 (2)
that an employer's consent to a workman's
leaving him has been unreasonably withheld.
The letter further stated that it was felt
that legal aid would not be necessary in
these minor cases, and
that permission
to employ it on either side might put the
workman at a disadvantage; moreover,
that it was desired that cases of this character
should be heard by a tribunal of a more
domestic character than the ordinary Courts,
and the rule was in fact the result of a
Parliamentary pledge to that effect. That
as regards the more serious cases which
might involve impcrtant points of law there
is no restriction on the employment of Counsel
or Solicitors, and that in the circumstances
the Minister did not see his way to consider
the rescission of the rule.
Court of Examiners.
The report of, the Court of Examiners upon
the October Preliminary and Intermediate
Examinations was submitted and adopted.
The report of the Court of Examiners upon
an application of a Law Clerk for leave to be
bound under Section 16 was submitted, and
the application was granted.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
November 3rd and 17th.
December 1st, 8th and 15th.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during October:—
Court of Examiners, 1st and 18th.
Costs, 15th, 25th and 28th.
Annual Report, 26th.
House, Library and Finance, 29th.
Ballot for Election of Council.
THE ballot for the election of the Council
will take place in
the Secretary's Office
between the hours of eleven o'clock a.m. and
one o'clock p.m., on Monday, the 22nd day
of November, 1915.
Ballot papers returned by post should be
posted so as to reach the Secretary not later
than one o'clock p.m. on Monday, the 22nd
day of November, 1915.
General Meeting of the Society.
THE Half-yearly General Meeting of
the
members of the Society will be held in the
Hall of the Society, Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts, on Friday, the 26th day of
November, 1915, at two o'clock p.m. The
report of
the outgoing Council will be
submitted for adoption.
New Members.
THE
following
joined
the Society
since
July, 1915 :—
Miley, Valentine W., 12 South Frederick
Street, Dublin.
O'Shaughnessy, Edward, Waterford.
Obituary.
MR. JOHN HARDIMAN, Solicitor, died upon
the 20th August, 1915, at Limerick.
Mr. Hardiman served his apprenticeship
with
the
late Mr. Robert McNamara,
Limerick, was admitted in Trinity Sittings,
1887, and practised at Charlestown, Co. Mayo.