ΤΟ THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE LORD CHIEF JUSTICE OF IRELAND (THE LORD O'BRIEN) THIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED PREFACE THE scheme of this Book is as follows. It begins with a chapter on the appointment of Justices of the Peace. It then proceeds to deal with the three important matters which limit their jurisdiction, namely, Title, Interest, and Res Judicata. Then comes a long chapter on the General Jurisdiction of Justices, dealing with all matters which concern their procedure and jurisdiction down to Sureties of the Peace, and Sureties of Good Behaviour. This is followed by chapters dealing with the principal codes, with which magistrates have as a rule to deal-namely, the Licensing Acts, the Public Health Acts, the Food and Drugs Acts, the Fishery Acts, and in a lesser degree, Game, Merchandise Marks, and General Dealers. Having thus treated the general jurisdiction of Justices, and the subjects on which that jurisdiction is exercised, the book next deals with the various modes by which their jurisdiction becomes amenable to review by Quarter Sessions or the Superior Courts. These chapters consist of Appeal, Case Stated, Certiorari, Mandamus, and Habeas Corpus, with the Crown Rules applicable to them. After these, there follows a chapter on Clerks of Petty Sessions, and there is then given a list of Various Offences and Various Branches of the Law, for the use of magistrates. The Appendix consists of a list of those Statutes which apply more especially to the jurisdiction exercised by Justices. It is a long list, and grows yearly longer. The Children Act, 1908, a long and comprehensive code, will probably be the Act of which magistrates will hear most in the future. No chapter on "Actions against Magistrates" has been added. If any magistrate shall be so unfortunate as to have an action brought against him, he consults solicitor and counsel, and the matter passes entirely into the region of Wylie, of Roscoe, and Bullen and Leake. I have to thank Mr. Lentaigne, Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper, for his assistance in the first chapter. I have also to thank Mr. James O'Brien, Clerk of the Crown. For assistance in the chapter on the General Jurisdiction of Magistrates, and for advice as to the Statutes, I have gladly to thank my old friend Mr. G. H. Shannon, R.M. He indeed εἰ τὶς και ἄλλος—with his unrivalled experience and brilliant gifts, may safely be taken as an authority on all such matters. But above all I am indebted to Mr. Hugh J. McCann, Barrister-atlaw. His tireless industry, his keen zeal for legal matters, have been of such service to me, that, bereft of them, this book could hardly have. appeared at all. Finally, I must thank my friend Mr. James Chambers, K.C. (M.P. for Belfast), for much sympathy and encouragement during his rare and rarer moments of leisure. 16 HUME STREET. R. M. HENNESSY. |