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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
QUNE, 1935
the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland
and the Universities which have also Law
schools of their own.
In that way a fund
can be created and maintained out of which
the author of a book will be suitably re
warded for his
labours and the cost of
publication of each book defrayed.
If
this
suggestion
be not considered
acceptable, at any rate, it must be recognised
by everyone that the author of a legal book
cannot be expected not only to work for
nothing but
in anticipation of certainly
suffering financially as well.
If there is a
more suitable alternative
to
the scheme
suggested, the sooner it is made known the
better for both branches of the legal pro
fession and the country generally.
Since our last Half-yearly General Meeting
your Council had occasion to make repre
sentations
to
the Minister
for
Justice
concerning facilities for legal advisers
to
consult persons under arrest.
The Minister
for Justice courteously agreed
to
these
representations and the matter was satis
factorily adjusted, and on representation to
him by the Council through me, he also
agreed to make suitable arrangements for
the appearance of Solicitors before
the
Tribunal set up under the Military Service
Pensions Act.
During
the half-year just ended your
Council, having received a report that an
unqualified person had been acting as a
Solicitor in the county of Leitrim, prosecuted
successfully this person, who was ordered
to pay a penalty and costs.
At the trial
the Circuit Court
Judge
expressed his
approval of your Council's action in the
matter.
In the month of February the new Courts
of Justice Bill was issued in printed form.
The Bill was carefully examined by the
Council, and after long consideration certain
amendments, which
the Council deemed
desirable and useful, were submitted to the
Ministry of Justice and the Attorney General
by a deputation from the Council consisting
of the President, the two Vice-Presidents
and Mr. E. H. Burne and your Secretary.
The
amendments
submitted
by
the
deputation were fully discussed and favour
ably considered by the Ministry and the
Attorney General, and the Council expect
that they will form part of the Statute
when it has passed through all its stages.
The Council believe that the Bill, so amended,
will bring about a much needed reform in
the matter of hearing appeals and also in
other particulars, and will be a useful and
welcome addition to the Statute Law of the
Saorstat.
The Bill has been read a second
time and its passage through the Committee
stage will be followed with care and attention
by the Council.
I would like on behalf of the Council to
express the thanks of the Council to Miss
M. Griffith, for her gift to the Society's
Library of nine volumes of Griffith's General
Valuation of Rateable Property in Ireland,
and to Mr. Florence O'Sullivan, Solicitor,
for his gift to the Society's Library of a
miscellaneous collection of useful law books.
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
23rd May.
Twenty-six Members present.
Mr. W. H. Dunne.
The Council passed a resolution expiessing
its regret at the death of Mr. Dunne, a past
President of the Society, and its sympathy
with his relatives in their bereavement.
Mr. M. Buggy.
The Council passed a resolution expressing
its regret at the death of Mr. Buggy, who
had been for twenty-four years Provincial
Delegate for Leinster on the Council, and
its sympathy with Mrs. Buggy in her be
reavement.
Free State Statutes.
The Council directed a letter to be written
to the Controller, Stationery Office, calling
his attention to the delay in the issue of
the bound volume of the Statutes of 1933
passed by the Oireachtas.
Valuations.
A letter was read from the Secretary of
the Irish Auctioneers' and Estate Agents'
Association asking the support of the Council
in the efforts of the Association to secure