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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[JANUARY, 1916
Court of Examiners.
A report from the Court of Examiners
upon an application by a Law Clerk for leave
to be bound under Section 16, was read. The
application was granted.
December 15th.
Statutory Committee.
A letter was read from the Secretary of the
Lord Chancellor intimating that His Lordship
had appointed the following seven members
of the Council to be tSe Statutory Committee
under Section 34 of the Solicitors (Ireland)
Act, 1898, for the year ending 26th Novem
ber, 1916 :—Mr. C. St. G. Orpen, Sir A. F.
Baker, Mr. Bradley, Mr. Hayes, Mr. Henry,
Mr. Macnamara, and Mr. Synnott.
Measuring of Costs.
The Council again had under consideration
the question of the measuring of costs of
interlocutory motions against the desire of
the parties to whom such costs are payable.
The Council passed the following Resolution :
" That in the opinion of this Council it is
the duty of the Solicitor for an unsuccessful
litigant in an interlocutory motion not to
apply to the Court to measure the costs
unless there are special circumstances, and
if he do so apply, he should state specifically
the special circumstances relied on."
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
February 9th and 23rd.
March 8th and 22nd.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during December, 1915 :—
Costs, 3rd and 13th.
Court of Examiners, 6th and 17th.
Special, Recruiting
amongst Law
Clerks, 17th.
Privileges, 20th.
Gazette, 22nd.
Calendar of
the Incorporated Law
Society, 1916.
THE Calendar and Law Directory, published
by the Society for 1916, can be obtained in
the Secretary's Office, price 3s., or by post
3s. 5d.
Solicitors' Annual Certificates.
MEMBERS are reminded that Annual Certifi
cates for the year ending 5th January, 1917,
should be taken out and the duties paid
thereon before the 6th February, 1916.
New Member.
THE
following joined
the Society during
December, 1915 :—
Kelly, John, Westport.
Knighthood.
THE honour of Knighthood has been con
ferred upon Mr. Francis Edgar Kearney,
LL.D., T.C.D., Solicitor, of Limerick. He is
Recruiting Officer
for
the Counties
of
Limerick
and Clare, with
the
rank of
Captain.
Military Cross.
His Majesty the King has been graciously
pleased to confer the Military Cross on the
following apprentices to solicitors :—
SECOND LIEUTENANT JAMES K. MACG.
GREER, 3rd Dragoon Guards (now of the
Irish Guards).
Second Lieutenant Greer is under appren
ticeship to his father, Mr. Thomas M. Greer,
Ballymoney.
SECOND
LIEUTENANT
ROBERT
W.
McGoNiGAL, Royal Garrison Artillery.
.
Second Lieutenant McGonigal
is under
apprenticeship
to his uncle, Mr. Daniel
McGonigal, 2 Rosemary St., Belfast.
Obituary.
MR. PATRICK NOONEY, Solicitor, died upon
the 15th December, 1915, at Mullingar.
Mr. Nooney served his apprenticeship with
the late Mr. William Mooney, 16 Fleet Street,
Dublin, was admitted in Michaelmas Term,
1877, and practised at Mullingar (latterly in
partnership with Mr. Thomas J. Dowdall,
under the style of Messrs. Nooney and
DowdaU).
MR. GEORGE C. MOYERS, Solicitor, died at
Turffontein, South Africa.
Mr. Moyers served his apprenticeship with
the late Mr. Peter Lambert, 22 Nassau Street,
Dublin, was admitted in Hilary Sittings,
1896,
and practised at 20 Fleet Street,
Dublin, up to the year 1900, when he went
to South Africa.