The Gazette 1916-17

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[MAY, 1916

Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates : May 24th. June 14th and 28th. Committee Meetings. THE following Committee Meetings were held during April: House, Library and Finance, 3rd. Gazette, llth. Court of Examiners, 13th. The Sinn Fein Insurrection. AT the meeting of the Council held upon the 10th May, the following resolution was adopted, and copies directed to be sent to His Majesty the King, the Prime Minister, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and the Lord Lieutenant: Resolved '' The Council of the Incor– porated Law Society of Ireland, at their first meeting since the Sinn Fein insurrec– tion in Ireland, hereby tender to His Gracious Majesty the King the assurance of their continued loyalty to his person and Throne. The Council express their abhorrence and condemnation of the scenes of outrage and destruction which have taken place, and urge upon His Majesty's Government the justice and necessity of providing promptly the funds necessary for restoring the buildings and property destroyed, and for compensating adequately all loyal subjects who have suffered by reason of the outbreak." Obituary. MR. PATRICK LAVERTY, Solicitor, Belfast, died upon the 5th March, 1916, in London. Mr. Laverty served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Andrew McErlean, Belfast, was admitted in Easter Sittings, 1895, and practised at 21 Chichester Street, Belfast.

MR. JOHN W. KILLEEN, Solicitor, died upon the 4th April, 1916, at his residence, 6 Mount Street Crescent, Dublin. Mr. Killeen was apprenticed to the late Mr. William Slattery, 51 Dame Street, Dublin, was admitted in Trinity Sittings, 1889, and practised (under the style of Messrs. Michael Larkin and Company) at 51 Dame Street, Dublin. ' MR. CHARLES S. GRAHAM, Solicitor, died upon the 10th April, 1916, at his residence, Loughrea, County Galway. Mr. Graham served his apprenticeship with the late Mr. Robert W. Peebles, 9 North Frederick Street, Dublin, was admitted in Hilary Sittings, 1883, and practised at Loughrea. MR. JAMES McLEAN, Solicitor, died upon the 14th April, 1916, at his residence, Plas Merdyn, Holywood, County Down. Mr. McLean served his apprenticeship with his father, the late Mr. James McLean, Belfast, was admitted in Hilary Term, 1869, and practised (as a member of the firm of Messrs. McLean, Boyle and McLean) at Belfast up. to the year 1888, in which year he was appointed Resident Magistrate, which position he held up to the year 1911, when he retired. He subsequently, in 1915, resumed practice as a Solicitor with the firm in Belfast of which he was previously a member.

New Members.

THE

following

joined the Society during

April, 1916 :

Sullivan, Daniel, 51 Dame Street, Dublin. Ward, Peter J., Killybegs, Co. Donegal.

Defence of Prisoners. THE following particulars were obtained by the President at an interview with Military Authorities at Richmond Barracks, Dublin, on 16th May : (1) Letters written to prisoners reach the prisoners. If therefore a relative wish to instruct a Solicitor to act for a prisoner,