The Gazette 1914-15

THE GAZETTE OF THE 0f

Vol. VIM, No. 3.]

July, 1914.

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FOR CIRCULATION AMONGST MEMBERS.

June nth. Court of Examiners.

Meetings of the Council.

June 3rd. Local Bankruptcy Court Rules.

A report was submitted from the Court of Examiners giving the results of the Prelimi nary and Final Examinations held last month. The recommendations of the Court of Examiners as to awards of medals and certificates were confirmed. The results appear in this Gazette. Findlater Scholarship. It was ordered that a special examination be held next October for the Findlater Scholarship ; the candidates who obtained either gold or silver medals at the Final Examinations held in October, 1913, and January and May, 1914, being qualified to compete. Professor of Common Law. The Council elected Mr. F. S. D. de Vere White (Sen. Mod.), B.A., LL.D., T.C.D., Solicitor, to be Professor of Common Law to the Society. Debating Society. It was resolved that " The Progress of Nationality " should be the subject for the Essay Competition for the Law Society's Gold Medal for this session. Certificates. Applications by two Solicitors for renewal of their Certificates were considered, and orders were made.

A LETTER was read from the Clerk of the Privy Council with reference to the request of the Council of this Society that the rule fixing the scale of costs for Local Bankruptcy Courts in small cases should be assimilated to the corresponding Supreme Court rule. The letter stated by direction of the Lords Justices, that the question had again been carefully considered, but that the representa tions now made did not disclose any grounds which were not before the Irish Government when they came to a decision in the matter in August last, and their Excellencies, therefore, regretted that they were unable to accede to the application of the Society. It was ordered that copies of the corres pondence be sent to the Northern Law Society and the Southern Law Association. Colonial Solicitors Act. A letter was read from the Colonial Office enclosing for approval a draft Order in Council applying the Colonial Solicitors Act 1900, to Trinidad and Tobago. As by the law of the Colony of Trinidad and Tobago Solicitors of the Supreme Court in Ireland are admitted to practise in that Colony without passing an examination, the Council expressed approval of the draft Order.