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56 L.J. 443 (1921)
December 10, 1921

handle is hein.journals/lwjrnal56 and id is 451 raw text is: THE LAW JOURNAL. 443 DECEMBER 10, 1921. ESTABLISHED 1809. NORTH BRITISH & MERCANTILE INSURANCE COMPANY, Ltd. FIRE ACCIDENT BURGLARY LIFE ANNUI TIES MARINE FUNDS - £25,746,000 INCOME - £9,110,000 CHIEF OFFICES: LONDON: 61 Threadneedle Street, E.C.2 EDINBURGH: - - 64 Princes Street 'I 9kW Jaw S4naI SATURDAY. DECEMBER 10, 1921. Notice to Contributors. Communications should be addressed to the Editor, 37 and 39, Essex Street, Strand London, W.C.2. We cannot hold ourselves responsible for the return of unsuitable contributions, but where the name and address are written on the manuscript every effort will be made to return such contributions promptly. Telephone: Gerrard 286 CONTENTS. Obiter Dicta.-The Lord Chancellor and the Irish Agreement-The Judge in Bankruptcy-The Lord Chancellor and the Public Trustee-Solicitors' Liability in Poor Persons' Cases-The New Dey Case-The Landru Case; Corpus Delicti-The Christmas Vacation (p. 443). Magistrates' Law.-Unemployment Insurance Exceptions-Mis- demeanour by a Parish (p. 446). Societies.-Liverpool Law Society-Derby Law Society-Bridgend District Law Society (p. 448). The Reform of the Leasehold System (p. 449). Rules and Orders.-Bankruptcy Business-Supreme Court Offices -Enrolments of Deeds, etc. (p. 449). Appointments (p. 452). Miscellany (p. 452). Obituary (p. 452). NOTES OF CASE& Chancery Division.-In re Prior,; ex parte The Trustee (p. 447). Court of Criminal Appeal.-Rex v. Florence Sarah Fisher (p. 448). Obiter Dicta. Th. Lord Chancellor and the Irish Agreement. No lawyer, whatever view he may take of the result of the Irish negotiations, can fail-to be impressed by the conspicuous and statesmanlike part which the Lord Chancellor has taken in them. The Conference, so far as the British delegation is concerned, has served, indeed, again to demonstrate the large influence which lawyers now exercise in public affairs. Five of the seven British signatories to the Agreement are members of the legal profession, three of them-Lord Birkenhead, Sir Gordon Hewart, and Sir Hamar Greenwood-being members of the Bar, and two-Mr. Lloyd George and Sir L, Worthington Evans-being solicitors. Even among the Irish signatories both branches of the profession may be said to be repre- sented, for Mr. Gavan Duffy, who belongs to a family of considerable fame in Colonial government and law, was an English solicitor before he joined the Irish Bar. Some of Lord Birkenhead's predecessors, notably Lord Lyndhurst and Lord Brougham, played a conspicuous part in political affairs, chiefly, however, when, having ceased to occupy the Woolsack, they sat on the Opposition side of the House of Lords. It may safely be asserted that no Lord Chancellor in modern times has figured so prominently as a Cabinet Minister as Lord Birkenhead has done during the comparatively brief period he has held his great office, and it certainly deserves to be acknowledged that he has contrived to take this extraordinarily active part in political affairs without showing any diminution in the energy and attention he has been accustomed to devote to the judicial and administrative duties that belong to him as the head of the judiciary. The Judge in Bankruptcy. AT length the position with regard to the exercise of the Bankruptcy jurisdiction has been regularised by the issue of a new Order by-the Lord Chancellor (set out in full in another column) assigning Mr. Justice Astbury as the Judge in Bankruptcy, When the announcement was first made in August last of the transfer of the business in bankruptcy matters to the Chancery Division, instead of the King's Bench Division, it was stated officially that, under the Order which had then been made by the Lord Chancellor, both Justices Astbury and P. 0. Lawrence were to be ' the judges by or under the direction of whom - LIFE - -- -W-FIRE- LEGAL & GENERAL ASSURANCE SOCIETY LTD Assets exceed £13,800,000 for ALL CLASSES OF INSURANCE except Marine Established 1836 Head Office: 10, FLEET STREET, E.C.4. Near Temple Bar

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