223 / 266
Vol. 48
No. 6
THE GAZETTE
o f the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
T
homas
A.
O’R
eilly
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
D
esmond
J. M
ayne
E
ric
A .
P
lunkett
J
ohn
J. S
hell
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT.
P
ractising
C
ertificates
,
1955-56. (1) Members
are reminded that practising certificates for the year
to end 5th January, 1956, should be taken out on or
after 6th January, 1955, and before 6th February,
1955, in order to take effect as a qualification to
practise from 6tn January. (2)
Under the provisions
o f the Solicitors’ Act,
1954,
the declaration to be lodged
with the Society on applying f o r a practising certificate
shall be completed and signed by the applicant personally
unless the Registrar on the ground o f illness or some other
sufficient ground dispenses with personal signature o f the
declaration. Dublin agents o f country solicitors should
therefore take up the certificates in good time and forward
them fo r signature to their correspondents.
(3) A form of
directions in regard to applications for practising
certificates for the year 1955-56 will be sent to each
practising solicitor before 5th January, 1955.
THE PRESIDENT AND
VICE-PRESIDENTS.
Mr. Thomas A. O’Reilly o f Dublin has been
elected President o f the Society for the coming
year, and Mr. Desmond J . Mayne o f Dublin and
Mr. John J. Sheil of Dublin have been elected
Vice-Presidents.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
A
G
eneral
Meeting of the Society was held in the
Library, Solicitors’ Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin,
on Thursday, 25th November, 1954. The President,
Mr. Joseph Barrett, took the Chair. The following
members signed their names as attending :
The President, Henry St. J. Blake, Patrick R-
Boyd, F. X . Burke, John Carrigan, Desmond J-
Coilins, Arthur Cox, Cornelius J. Daly, Niall S-
Gaffney, John R. Halpin, Francis J . Lanigan, John
Maher, Desmond Mayne, John J. Nash, George A.
Nolan, William J. Norman, Peter E. O’Connell,
Janies J. O’Connor, Louis E . O’Dea, Sean O
hUadhaigh, Patrick F. O’Reilly, Thomas A. O’Reilly,
George G- Overend, Dermot P. Shaw, John J.
Sheil, Joseph Tyrrell, Ralph J. Walker, Terence de
Vere White, D. M. Martin, John F. Foley, Edmund
Hayes, John B. Jetmyn, T. Desmond McLoughlin,
Henry W. McCormick, A. E. Ashton, D. D.
MacDonald, D. B. Gilmore, D. O’Donovan,