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JULY, 1909]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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Taxing Office.
A letter was read from the Lord Chancellor's
Secretary, intimating
the
intention of His
Lordship to appoint a Committee consisting
of Mr. de Versan, Registrar of the Chancery
Division, the Treasury Remembrancer, and a
member of the Society, to report upon the
working of the Consolidated Taxing office,
and requesting the Council to name a member
willing to act on the Committee. The Council
nominated the President.
Finance Bill.
Letters from two members of the profession
relative to matters arising out of the Finance
Bill were referred to the Parliamentary Com
mittee.
Searches.
A report was received from the deputation
from the Council, consisting of the President
and two Vice-Presidents, who had interviewed
the Registrar and Assistant Registrar of Deeds
upon the question of expediting the furnishing
of searches by the Registry of Deeds Office.
The deputation had been satisfied that there at
present exists no undue delay in the furnishing
of searches, that no preferential attention is
given to searches the requisitions for which
come from Government departments or public
bodies; and they were informed of the fact
that
in 1903
there were fourteen searchers
upon the staff of the office, and now there are
twenty-one; and recently the Treasury had
sanctioned overtime work
in the searching
department.
Unqualified Practitioner.
The result of the application to the King's
Bench Division
for a writ, of attachment
for contempt of Court under section 52 of
the Solicitors (Ireland) Act, 1898, against a
defendant (not a Solicitor) who had entered
an appearance for himself, and upon behalf of
his co-defendant, was reported. The Court
held that the defendant who entered such ap
pearance, in doing so for his co-defendant,
had been guilty of a breach of the Solicitors
(Ir.) Act, but having regard to the apology
tendered to the Court by counsel on his behalf,
and to his plea of acting in ignorance, the
Court made no rule on the application.
Examiners and Professor.
The Council re-appointed Mr. Charles H.
Denroche, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., Solicitor, and
Mr. Frank V. Gordon, B.A., ex-Scholar (T.C.D.),
Solicitor, as Special Examiners for 1910, and
Mr. Thomas G. Quirke, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., as
Professor of Real Property, Equity, and Con
veyancing for 1909-10.
County Courts Committee.
A report was submitted from the County
Courts Committee, stating that a deputation
from Green Street Sessions Bar, consisting of
Mr. T. H. R. Craig, Mr. W. Geoghegan, and
Mr. T. J. Furlong, jun., had met the County
Courts Committee, and had discussed the
Civil Bill Courts (Dublin) Bill, introduced upon
the gth inst., in the House of Commons, by
Mr. Field, M.P., supported by the three other
Members of Parliament for the City of Dublin.
The Deputation and Committee agreed that,
subject
to one amendment by which
the
President of the Society would be named in the
Bill as a consenting party to rules to be made
under the Bill when it becomes law, there was
no objection to its passing. The Deputation
and Committee arranged that the Sessions Bar
should further consider the Civil Bill Courts
(Dublin) Bill introduced in 1908, with a view
to having the Bill ready in autumn, in such a
form as to secure the approval of all parties
interested in its passage into law.
Council Meetings.
MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon
the following dates :—
July 14th and 28th.
October 6th and zoth.
Committee Meetings.
THE following Committee Meetings were held
during June:—
Special Committee
re
Bankruptcy proce
dure, yth and z8th.
Gazette, gth.
Costs, i ith and 2ist.
House, Library, and Finance, I4th.
Parliamentary, isth.
Land Act, i8th.
County Courts, 23rd.
New Members.
THE following have joined the Society during
June, 1909 :—
Callan, Patrick J.', Dundalk.
Leahy, Daniel, Abbeyfeale.
Markey, Patrick C., Navan.
Orr, Alexander D., Dublin.