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twelve months. The effect o f these repeals is that,
in any cause of action accruing after the ist July,
J 954> if any proceedings are henceforth instituted
against a local authority or statutory body, these
proceedings can be taken within the same period
of time, as if the defendant were an ordinary litigant.
Thus the cause o f action, in the cases o f breach of
contract and o f most torts would be six years,
but unlike the corresponding English provisions,
the period o f one year in which dependants may sue
under Lord Campbell’s Act, 1846 has not been
altered, nor have there been any new provisions
made as regards suing Departments of State. Again,
litigants will now have twelve years to sue a public
authority or statutory board in the case of recovery
of land.
OBITUARY.
M
r
. J
a m e s
G
o r d o n
,
Solicitor, died on the 27th
M a y , 19 5 4 .
Mr. Gordon served his apprenticeship with the
late Mr. Samuel Fryar, Solicitor, Banbridge, Co.
Down, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1906 and
practised as senior partner in the firm of Messrs.
Fryar & Gordon, Banbridge, Co. Down.
M
r
. J
o h n
T.
M
c
C
o n n e l l
,
Solicitor, died on the
27th October, 1954.
Mr. McConnell served his apprenticeship with
the late Mr. Samuel F. McConnell, Solicitor, Lisburn,
Co. Antrim, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1914
and practised at 7 Upper Queen Street, Belfast.
M
r
. P
a t r i c k
B.
M
c
C
a r t h y
,
Solicitor, died at
Dar-Es-Salaam, Tanganyika, on the 15 th January,
195 5
-
Mr. McCarthy served his apprenticeship with Mr.
Joseph H. Dixon, Solicitor, 16 Parnell Square,
Dublin, was admitted in Hilary Sittings 1939, and
practised at 59/61 Dame Street, up to his appoint
ment last year as Resident Magistrate o f the British
Colonial Service in Tanganyika.
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