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May,
1953
Vol. 47
No. 1
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
J
ames
R.
Q
uirke
Vice-Presidents
J
ohn
C
arrigan
J
ames
J . O’C
onnor
Secretary
E
ric
A . P
lunkett
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
A
pril
23rd, 1953. The President in the Chair.
Also present: Messrs. John Carrigan and James J.
O’Connor, Vice-Presidents; Joseph P. Tyrrell,
Maurice M. Power, Francis J. Gearty, Joseph
Barrett, John B. Jermyn, Barry M. O’Meara, Francis
Lanigan, Ralph J. Walker, Charles Downing,
Cornelius J. Daly, Patrick R. Boyd, George G.
Overend, Niall S. Gaffney, Desmond J. Mayne,
Desmond J. Collins, Arthur Cox, John R. Halpin,
Henry St. J. Blake, Reginald J. Nolan, John J.
Nash, Peter E. O’Connell, Gerald J. O’Donnell,
John Maher, Desmond R. Counahan, John J . Sheil,
William J. Norman, Louis E. O’Dea, Thomas A.
O’Reilly, Patrick J. Kavanagh.
The following was among the business transacted :
Arrears o f business in the High Court :
The following motion was passed.
(1) “ That we the Council o f the Incorporated
Law Society view with the most grave
concern the present very serious position of
arrears and congestion in the High Court
List, which has now become a grievous
hardship to litigants throughout the country,
and a very substantial impediment to the
administration o f Justice, and which we are
aware is now becoming rapidly and pro
gressively worse.
(2) “ That we hereby record our strong recom
mendation to the Government for the
immediate appointment o f an additional
High Court Judge as an essential remedy
for the present situation and as a preventi-
tive against its deterioration in the present
altered conditions.
(3) “ And we further recommend that to provide
for the future more efficient administration
o f Justice in the High Court the following
alterations be put into effect.
“
(a)
The earlier commencement o f the
Michaelmas Sittings.
“
(b)
The abolition o f the Whitsuntide
Vacation.
“
(c)
The alteration o f the July High
Court on Circuit Sittings to Octo
ber.”