Bennett, Thomas WestroppThursday, 22 July 1926 |
Seanad Éireann Debate
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HIGH COURT AND SUPREME COURT RULES.
I second the motion.
I regret that when we were dealing with these rules in Committee this matter escaped my notice and it was only afterwards that my attention was drawn to it. I feel that the rules as they stand inflic...
The Minister has met the case, I think, very fairly, but he went outside the scope of the amendment. We were simply dealing with notices and summonses, but the Minister went on to describe the whole p...
I have been very much interested in the various rules that are put before us, and it occurred to me that the matter of the evolution of the judge's costume was properly intended to affect the public r...
DISTRICT COURT RULES.
Would the Civic Guard get fees?
Police formerly got fees for serving. I thought a Guard was a summons-server.
Rule 63 states:— The jurisdiction of a justice in civil proceedings shall be exercised by him within his district as follows, namely—in the court area for civil proceedings wherein the defendant or on...
I wish to allude to Rule 94.
Yes. It provides that a person may be summoned from any part of the Saorstát, and if he does not attend he is liable to great penalties. Surely if a poor man was summoned from Donegal to Kerry, it is...
Where is that stated?
An offence is committed for non-attendance on the summons, and the person may be arrested and imprisoned.
He may be arrested before he proves it.
I made a note about Rule 94 as to why expenses were not provided. Senator Brown says that if a viaticum were not given it is sufficient explanation.
The existing form is provided for in the schedule.
THE CIRCUIT COURT RULES.
I second that. Motion put and agreed to.
I second that. Motion put and agreed to.
TARIFF COMMISSION BILL, 1926—MESSAGE FROM THE DÁIL.
I second. Motion put and agreed to.
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