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The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
[APRIL, 1910
The report recommended the Council to
take steps to oppose the Bill.
The report was adopted;
and it was
resolved to request Members of Parliament
to give notice of motion to move the rejection
of the Bill. The following resolution was
also adopted, and copies directed to be
circulated amongst Members of Parliament :
" The Council of
the
Incorporated Law
" Society of Ireland having considered the
" Solicitors Acts Amendment Bill introduced
" by Captain Craig, M.P., and Mr. Thomas
" Corbett, M.P., desire to record their dis-
" approval of the entire of its provisions, and
" to express the hope that if the Bill should
" reach its second reading stage it will be
" rejected.
" The Council do not consider it would be
" in the interests of the public or of the
" Solicitors'
profession
that any person
" should be admitted
to be a Solicitor
" without complying with the existing re-
" quirements of service under articles and
" the passing of examinations.
" The Council are of opinion that university
" graduates and law clerks are given by the
" existing law ample facilities and sufficient
" exemptions
for
the purpose of seeking
" admission to the profession."
Apprentices' Debating Society.
A letter was read from the Hon. Sec. of
the Solicitors' Apprentices' Debating Society,
submitting, for the approval of the Council,
a list of subjects for debates selected by the
Committee of the Society, and conveying the
request of the Committee that the ordinary
weekly meetings of the Debating Society
should be held in the Solicitors' Buildings.
The list of subjects for debates was approved
of, and permission was granted to hold the
meetings of the Society in the Solicitors'
Buildings.
March 23rd.
Presentation.
The Council passed a cordial vote of thanks
to their colleague, Mr. Richard S. Reeves,
for his presentation to the Society of an
engraving of Daniel O'Connell, M.P., to be
placed amongst the collection of engravings
in the Council Chamber.
Taxation of Costs.
The practice of requiring an affidavit of
credits to be approved of by the opposing
Solicitor was '^considered, and as there is an
alternative course to this practice whereby
the affidavit may be attached to the bill of
costs, without being approved of, so that its
contents can be discussed at the taxation,
the Council did not consider it necessary to
take" further action in this matter.
Solicitors' Acts Amendment Bill.
Letters were read in reply from Mr. Healy,
K.C., M.P. ; Mr. Brady, M.P. ; Mr. Vincent
Kennedy, M.P.; and Mr. Hills, M.P., pro
mising their support in opposition to this
Bill.
Land Commission Rules.
The President informed the Council that
he and the Vice-Presidents had had an inter
view with Mr. Justice Wylie and the Land
Commissioners in reference to the Provisional
Rule of 26th January last (see GAZETTE of
February, page 82) as to the preparation of
the draft certificate specifying the amount
payable out of the Land Purchase Aid Fund,
and that upon hearing their suggestions
Mr. Justice Wylie and the Commissioners
had stated that the rule would be amended
by inserting in it a provision for notice being
sent to the Vendor or his Solicitor of the draft
certificate being ready for inspection, and
for an extension of
the time limited for
objection.
The President also informed the Council
that, in accordance with the provisions of the
Land Purchase Acts of 1903 and 1909, he
had been consulted by Mr. Justice Wylie
and the Estates Commissioners relative to
draft rules under the Land Act of 1909, and
that having conferred with the Land Acts
Committee of the Council, he had made
certain suggestions for amendment of the
draft rules, which
suggestions had been
accepted by the Judge and Commissioners.
Royal Commission on Divorce.
A letter was read,
in reply, from the
Secretary of
the Royal Commission
on
Divorce stating that as at present arranged
the Commission does not intend to take
evidence in reference to the matrimonial laws
as administered in Ireland, nor does he
apprehend that any such evidence comes
within the term of reference.