§ MR. WILLIAM REDMONDI beg to ask the Chief Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland whether solicitors 72 who become magistrates by election as chairman of public bodies in Ireland under the Local Government Act are disqualified by becoming magistrates from practising their profession; and if so, whether the Government will take steps to remove such disqualifications.
§ MR. WYNDHAMSolicitors who become justices of the peace by virtue of being elected to the post of chairman of a county or district council are not thereby disqualified from practising their profession. But it would obviously be most improper for them to practise as solicitors in the petty sessions courts in which they are in the habit of sitting, or are entitled to sit as justices.