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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
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Vol. Ill, No. 10.]
April, 1910.
T FOR CIRCULATION
L AMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
March Wi.
Royal Commission on Divorce.
Tt was decided to ascertain whether the
Royal Commission on Divorce included an
inquiry into the working of matrimonial law
in Ireland.
Dublin County Court Bar Association.
An application for permission to hold the
annual meeting of the Dublin County Court
Bar Association in the Lecture Theatre of
the Society was granted.
Land Commission Rules.
A
letter was read,
in reply, from
the
Secretary of
the Irish Land Commission
stating that, while every facility will be
afforded to the Solicitor for the vendor, or
other person interested, to inspect the draft
certificate as to the percentage referred to in
the Provisional Rules of the 26th January,
and to take extracts, the Commissioners
could not comply with the request of the
Council to furnish a duplicate of the certifi
cate to the vendor or his Solicitor, which in
many instances will be a document of con
siderable dimensions.
It was decided to ask the Commissioners
to receive a deputation from the Council,
consisting
of
the President
and Vice-
Presidents, to discuss this matter.
Certificate.
An application by a Solicitor for liberty to
renew his annual certificate was considered
and granted.
Bye-Laws.
A
report
from
the Special Committee
appointed to consider the resolutions of the
November ^General Meeting
relative
to
Membership of the Society was considered,
and its further consideration was adjourned
till next meeting.
Solicitors' Acts Amendment Bill.
A report was submitted from the Parlia
mentary Committee upon a Bill to amend
the Solicitors Acts, introduced upon 2-ith
February by Captain Craig, M.P., and Mr.
Thomas Corbett, M.P. The report stated
that the Bill provides
for
the following
amendments of the existing English and Irish
Solicitors Acts—(1) That any person who
takes by examination the University degree
of LL.B. and who produces to the Incor
porated Law Society satisfactory evidence of
having been clerk
for
three years
in a
Solicitor's office, may be admitted a Solicitor ;
(2) that any person who for twelve years,
subsequent to his attaining eighteen years of
age, has been
bona fide
engaged as clerk in a
Solicitor's office,
transacting the business
usually transacted by Solicitors, and who
produces to the Incorporated Law Society
satisfactory evidence of such clerkship, may,
upon passing the Final Examination, be
admitted a Solicitor ;
(3) a right of appeal
against the decision of the Incorporated Law
Society under the two previous clauses;
(4) that contracts of service between the
persons admissible to the profession under
the Bill and their employers need not be in
writing, and, if in writing, should be liable to
sixpence duty, or,
if under seal,
to ten
shillings duty.