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hUadhaigh’s amendment was at his request recorded.
The original motion for the adoption of the report
(with the exception of Part III) was then put to the
meeting and adopted.
It was decided that the next annual meeting of the
Society should be held on 24th November, 19
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•
Ou the motion o f Mr. Ernest Proud, seconded by
Mr. P. C. Moore, Mr. Nash, Vice-President took the
Chair and Mr. Proud then moved and Mr. Moore
seconded a vote of thanks to the President for his
distinguished services to the Society during his
year o f office. Mr. Nash associated himself with the
motion which was passed with acclamation. The
President replied and the proceedings terminated.
SPECIAL GENERAL MEETING.
A
S
p e c ia l
General Meeting
o f
the Society was held
on 25th November, 1954, pursuant to a requisition
signed by the necessary number of members.
o f
the
Society under Bye-law 27.
The President took the Chair. The following
resolution which had been referred to the Special
Meeting by the Annual Meeting o f the Society
was proposed by Mr. T. D. McLoughlin, seconded
by Mr. Peadar Cowan—cc That Part III of
the report o f the Council for the year ending
25th November, 1954, be not adopted and be
referred back to the Council.”
The proposer
and seconder and Messrs. Sean O hUadliaigh, T. A.
O’Reilly, and D. Slattery addressed the meeting.
Mr. Donough O’Donovan, Chief State Solicitor,
proposed as an amendment and Mr. P. C. Moore
seconded that Part III of the report be adopted.
After replies from the mover and seconder o f the
substantive motion it was withdrawn by permission
o f the meeting on a statement by the Chairman that
subject to the attainment of the paramount object
that the Solicitors’ Bill, 1954, should become law
before 5th January, 1955, and to the unfettered
discretion o f the Council in taking all necessary
action to achieve that object, the Council would try
to obtain the agreement o f the Government to the
amendment o f the Bill on the Committee stage, with
the object of ensuring that members o f the Dis
ciplinary Committee would not be associated with
the preliminary investigation o f complaints, and
to an amendment increasing the quorum o f the
Disciplinary Committee from 3 to 5.
The following motion on the Agenda was then
proposed by Mr. T. D. McLoughlin and seconded
by Mr. Raymond Kenny—“ That this Society
recognising the disadvantages attaching to the
members, by the continued use o f the designation
‘ solicitor ’ hereby calls on the Society through its
Council to press for the rejection o f the use thereof
in the Bill at present before the Oireachtas entitled
the Solicitors’ Bill, and for the substitution therefor
o f the traditional, historical designation o f ‘Attorney-
at-Law’ .” The proposer and seconder and Mr. Sean
O hUadhaigh and H. E. McClenaghan and Arthur
Cox having spoken to the motion and the proposer
having replied it was put to the meeting and declared
lost.
Mr. T. D. McLoughlin moved the following
motion on the Agenda—“ That this Society deplores
the use o f the term ‘ Civil Service Solicitor ’ in the
Bill at present before the Oireachtas entitled the
Solicitors’ Bill, 1954* and hereby calls on the
Society through its Council to press for the rejec
tion o f the terms aforesaid and for the substitution
therefore o f the term ‘ Attorney-at-Law in the
service of the State.’ ”
The President stated that the question of the term
“ Civil Service Solicitor ” was under discussion
between the State Departments’ Solicitors’ Associa
tion and the Council and that it was likely that
representations would be made to the Government
to substitute the term “ Solicitor in the service of the
State ” for the term “ Civil Service Solicitor.” The
proposer with the permission o f the meeting
withdrew the motion.
The proceedings then terminated.
THE INCORPORATED LAW
SOCIETY OF NORTHERN
IRELAND.
T
he
President o f the Society for the year
1954-5 5
is
Dr. Henry A . Maginess, Lisburn. The five extraord
inary members on the Council o f this Society are—
Messrs. Thomas Q. King, Belfast;
George
Murnaghan, Omagh ; Charles MacLoughlin, Cole
raine; and James C. Taylor, Belfast, with Dt.
Maginess.
SOUTHERN LAW ASSOCIATION.
T
h e
Annual General Meeting of the above Associa
tion took place on Friday, 3rd December,
1954.
The
following officers were elected for the year
1954-5 5 :
President,
Mr. John J . Horgan;
Vice-President,
Mr John Francis Fo ley;
Hon. Treasurer,
Bryan J.
Murphy;
Hon. Secretary,
Gerald J . Moloney;
Council:
—Messrs. T. A. Buckley, J. K . Coakley,
C. J. Daly, C. E . Exham, Edmund Hayes, J. B-
Jermyn, P. J. Kavanagh, J. W. O’Donovan, B. M.
O’Meara, D. J . Quinlan, Michael Boland, T. K.
Keane.
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