The Gazette 1914-15

[JANUARY, 1915

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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Roll of Honour. CAPTAIN ROBERT C. ORR, of the 3rd (Special Reserve) Battalion, Somersetshire Light Infantry, was killed in action in France, on the 19th December. Captain Orr served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Robert H. Orr, Belfast, and Mr. John C. Crossle, Belfast, was admitted a Solicitor in Hilary Sittings, 1903. and practised formerly in Belfast and subsequently at Ballymena, in partnership with Mr. Travers W. King, under the style of Messrs. R. and H. Orr. Commissioners to Administer Oaths. THE Lord Chancellor has appointed the following to be Commissioners to administer Oaths :— Francis L. Hughes, Solicitor, 48 Donegall Street, Belfast. John G. Oulton, Solicitor, 21 Lower Fitzwilliam Street, Dublin. Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914 MR. A. G. HOLLINSHEAD, Official Assignee in Bankruptcy, has been appointed Custodian for Ireland under the Trading with the Enemy Amendment Act, 1914. Resolutions of the General Council of the Bar of November 27th, 1914, in reference to Barristers engaged in Military Service. THAT with a view to preserving, so far as possible, the practice of Barristers who are unable to attend to their business owing to their serving in His Majesty's Forces, or otherwise in connection with the war, Solicitors be asked to adopt the following procedure in every case in which a Solicitor would normally have employed a Barrister so serving :— (1) The Solicitor to continue to place the name of the Barrister so serving on briefs and papers. (2) The Solicitor to deliver such briefs and papers, together with the fee marked thereon, to such Barrister as he may in his own discretion from time to time select, and to invite such Barrister to hold the

brief or attend to the papers so delivered to him on behalf of the Barrister whose name is placed thereon. That with a view to preserving, so far as possible, the practice of every Barrister who is unable to attend to his business owing to his serving in His Majesty's Forces or other wise in connection with the war (hereinafter designated as A. B.), the Bar Council recommends :— (a) That all Barristers should make it a point of honour to do what they can to ensure that A. B. may get back his practice intact when he resumes work at the Bar. (b) That all Barristers, whether senior or junior to A B., should, so far as is reason ably practicable, do the work of A. B. (c) That any Barrister doing the work for A. B. should after his signature to any pleadings or other documents add " for A. B., now serving in His Majesty's Forces " (or as the case may be), and if holding a brief should state to the Court for whom he is holding such brief and for what reason. Courts (Emergency Powers) (Ireland) Act, 1914. An Act to amend the Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1914, in its application to Ireland. [27th November, 1914.] BE IT ENACTED by the King's most Excellent Majesty, by and with the advice and consent of the Lords Spiritual and Temporal, and Commons, in this present Parliament assembled, and by the authority of the same, as follows: 1. In the application of the Courts (Emergency Powers) Act, 1914, to Ireland " proceedings for the recovery of possession " of lands or tenements under section fifteen " of the Summary Jurisdiction (Ireland) " Act, 1851, or section eighty-six of the " Landlord and Tenant Law Amendment " Act (Ireland), 1860," shall be substituted for " proceedings for the recovery of "possession of tenements under the Small "Tenements Recovery Act, 1838." 2. This Act may be cited as the Courts (Emergency Powers) (Ireland) Act, 1914.