The Gazette 1915-16

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

[JUNE, 1915

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Meetings of the Council.

MR. JAMES MOORE, Vice-President, seconded the resolution. He said that most of the business transacted at the May Half- yearly Meeting was as a rule formal business connected with the working of the Society, and that some members of the Society would be glad to bring matters of purely professional interest before meetings, which they hesitated to do in the presence of the Press. MR. MACNAMARA said he was strongly opposed to the resolution. The President's statement of to-day was one of much public interest as well as being of interest to the profession, and he thought it desirable that twice yearly there should be stated general meetings open to the Press. MR. P. J. BRADY, M.P., opposed the resolution, and said that should questions arise which the members considered desirable to have discussed in the absence of the Press, there would be no difficulty in moving that a general meeting should " go into Com– mittee." MR. GAMBLE said that the meeting should remember that this suggestion did not originate with the Council. It was made by the Council as a result of a letter received from a member of the Society, in which he said he wrote for himself and for others, and there seemed to several members of the Council much to be said in support of the suggestion, but it was a matter on which the Council were not unanimous, and the meeting could decide it. MR. JAMES BRADY opposed the resolution, and stated he thought it was in the interests of the profession and the Society that their proceedings should be reported in the public Press. MR. ROONEY stated that the difficulty could always be met by going into Committee when any matter arose in which it was desirable for a meeting to take that course. MR. W. J. SHANNON replied, and stated that he still was of opinion that in the general interests of the Society the adoption of his proposal was desirable. THE PRESIDENT put the resolution, and declared it " lost." The proceedings then terminated.

May 19th. Legal Appointments.

It was resolved that the report of the Council upon Legal Appointments be sent to all those in whom is vested the appointment to any of the offices contained in '' Class C '' of that report, being offices of a legal nature for which Barristers, Solicitors and other persons are eligible, with a letter drawing attention to the grievances of the Solicitors' profession dealt with in the report, and urging the claims of the profession for a more liberal recognition in the matter of such appoint– ments. Solicitors Volunteering for Service. Correspondence was read in reference to the transaction of the legal business of a District Council during the absence of the Solicitor of the Council who had volunteered for military service during the wan The following resolution was adopted, and copies directed to be sent to the Local Government Board, the District Council, the Solicitor to the District Council, and to the Solicitor whom the District Council contemplate appointing in preference to the temporary nominee of their present Solicitor. Resolved. The Council are of opinion . that a Solicitor who volunteers for Naval or Military Service during the present war is entitled to receive from his professional brethren every possible facility for the carrying on of his business in his absence, and where such Solicitor holds any pro– fessional appointment the Council would view with strong disapproval any attempt by a member of the profession to obtain such appointment for his own advantage.

Council Meetings. MEETINGS of the Council will be held upon the following dates :

June 16th and 30th. July 14th and 28th.