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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law
Society
of Ireland.
[NOVEMBER, 1918
The Military Cross has been awarded to
2ND LIEUTENANT HUGH GALBRAITH, Royal
Dublin Fusiliers.
2nd Lieutenant Galbraith was admitted a
Solicitor
in Easter Sittings,
1911,
and
practised at
5 South Frederick Street,
Dublin, and Drogheda.
A Bar to the Military Cross has been
awarded to CAPTAIN ROBERT WATTS, Army
Service Corps (attached Royal Irish Rifles).
Captain Watts was admitted a Solicitor in
Trinity Sittings,
1913, and practised at
Belfast.
Legal Appointment.
SIR FRANCIS E. KEARNEY has been appointed
Clerk of the Crown and Peace for the County
and City of Limerick, in room of the late
Mr. William M. Beauchamp.
New Member.
THE
following joined the Society during
October, 1918 :—
Russell McWilliam, Monaghan.
Commissioners to Administer Oaths.
THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the
following to be Commissioners to administer
Oaths :—
Richard W. Maxwell, Solicitor, 40 Nth.
Gt. George's Street, Dublin.
David A. Quaid, Solicitor, 9 Eustace
Street, Dublin.
David
McKibbon,
Estate
Agent,
Donaghadee.
High Court Hours.
THE present sitting hours of the Courts are
from 10.30 a.m. till 3 p.m., unless where a
Judge finds it desirable that the hearing of
a case should continue to a later hour.
On Saturdays the offices of the High Court
are open from 10.30 a.m. till 12 o'clock noon.
New Solicitors.
THE following were admitted during August,
September, and October, 1918 :—
Name
Served Apprenticeship to
Callan, John W. T.
...
John H. Callan, i Suffolk
Dublin.
Johnson, Richard D. F. Matthew D. McCoy, 100
George St., Limerick.
O'Reilly, Philip H. I. Thomas J. Greene, 11 Wel–
lington Quay, Dublin.
The Local Bankruptcy (Ireland) Act, 1888.
Increase of Remuneration.
BY Order of the Lord Lieutenant in Council
made under the Local Bankruptcy (Ireland)
Act, 1888, dated the 1st day of November,
1918, and published in the
Dublin Gazette
of
same date, after reciting the fixing of costs
under the Act by rules, of 28th December,
1888, it was ordered as follows :—
That the costs payable to Solicitors in
proceedings
under
the
said Act,
as
prescribed by the First Schedule to the
said Rules
dated
the
28th day of
December, 1888,
shall be
increased
in
respect of business transacted on and after
the 7th day of May, 1918, by the addition
thereto of an amount equal to twenty-five
per cent, of the amount of such prescribed
costs, such increase to be in force during
the continuance of the present war and for
a period of six months thereafter.
Results of Examinations.
AT the Preliminary Examination, held on
3rd and 4th Oct., the following passed the
examination, and their names are arranged
in order of merit —
1.
Edward Walsh.
2. William St. Clair Rice.
3.
Patrick Ryan.
4. Thaddeus O'Sullivan.
5. Martin J. Neilan.
6.
Charles J. Downing.
Patrick M. Cullen and John Dorman passed
the modified Preliminary Examination, for
which they had liberty to present themselves.
Thirteen
candidates
attended :
eight
passed ;
five were postponed.
At the Intermediate Examination, held
upon the 7th October, the following passed
the examination, and their names are classed
and placed in order of merit :—
CLASS I.
1. Michael J. Spears.
2. Hutchinson E. Davidson.
3.
John B. McCann.
4. Barry M. O'Meara.
5. Augustus Cullen.
CLASS II.
Alexander Sutherland.
Ten candidates attended:
six passed;
four were postponed.