admitted a W.S. Mr Kennedy was the elder brother of Mr Kennedy Cochran-Patrick, who married the only daughter of the late Mr Cochran-Patrick of Woodside, M.P. for North Ayrshire and Under-Secretary for Scotland. The Kennedys of Underwood claim descent from the Earls of Cassillis, and their ancestors lived formerly at Greenan Castle, Doonfoot, near Ayr. They acquired Underwood in 1785. The remains of the deceased gentleman were cremated at Golders Green Crematorium and the interment took place at the Dean Cemetery, Edinburgh. The mourners at the service included the following relatives: Mr John Kennedy (son), Mr Cochran-Patrick (brother-inlaw), Sir Ian Colquhoun, Bart., and Mr Charles Cochran-Patrick (nephews). There were also present, among others, Sir James Dodds, K.C.B., of the Scottish Office; Sir Lewis Coward, K.C.; Mr James Falconer, Edinburgh; Sir Lynden Macassey, representing the Parliamentary Bar; and Mr Geoffrey Cox, representing the Society of Parliamentary Agents. Mr Kennedy is survived by his widow and son.

THE death occurred on the 8th March of Mr David H. Littlejohn, solicitor, Dundee, only surviving son of the late Hon. Sheriff Substitute D. S. Littlejohn. Mr Littlejohn, who was 69 years of age, resided in Broughty Ferry, and was on his way to business in Dundee when he was seized with illness in a tram-car, and died almost immediately. He was an authority upon railway locomotives, and made many contributions to railway journals on this subject.

ACT OF SEDERUNT

ANENT ADMISSION OF LAW AGENTS (APPRENTICESHIP (WAR SERVICE) AND EXEMPTION FROM EXAMINATION).

EDINBURGH, 3rd March 1920.

Whereas by section 1, subsection 1 (a), of the Law Agents' Apprenticeship (War Service) (Scotland) Act 1919 it is provided, inter alia, that "where any person, who has been or shall be during the present war employed in any public service connected with the war of a character approved by the Lord President of the Court of Session, has entered or shall enter into an indenture of apprenticeship in terms of the Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873, one half of the period of such employment shall be reckoned as actual service under such indenture"; and whereas by Act of Sederunt dated 19th March 1919, passed relative to section 5 of the Law

Agents and Notaries Public (Scotland) Act 1891, it is enacted, inter alia, that "any candidate for admission as a law agent who has been in public service connected with the war of a character to be approved by the Lord President and Lord Justice-Clerk," may in the circumstances therein stated apply to the Examiners of Law Agents to be exempted from the First Examination in General Knowledge, or to the Lord President and Lord Justice-Clerk to be exempted from the Second Examination in General Knowledge; the Lords of Council and Session, in pursuance of the powers conferred by the aforesaid section 5 of the Law Agents and Notaries Public (Scotland) Act 1891, do hereby enact and declare as follows:

1. That where any candidate as aforesaid has applied or may apply for exemption from the said Examinations in General Knowledge or either of them, and whose public service connected with the war has in said application been approved or may be approved by the Lord President and Lord Justice-Clerk under the said Act of Sederunt, such approval shall be held to be approval by the Lord President of the Court of with the war in terms of the aforesaid section 1, Session of the applicant's public service connected subsection 1 (a), of the Law Agents' Apprenticeship (War Service) (Scotland) Act 1919.

2. That in the case of an applicant whose public service connected with the war may require the approval of the Lord President of the Court of Session under said section 1, subsection 1 (a), of the Law Agents' Apprenticeship (War Service) (Scotland) Act 1919, but whose application does not fall under the said Act of Sederunt, he shall present a short written petition to the Lord President setting forth the circumstances under which the application is made, and shall produce therewith a statement of his service duly certified. The petition, which may be signed by the applicant, shall in the first instance be lodged with the clerk to the Examiners of Law Agents, and each applicant shall pay the following fees on lodging the petition: (1) for the clerk to the examiners, £2, 12s. 6d.; (2) for the clerk to the Lord President, £1, 1s., which shall include a certified copy of the deliverance; (3) where there is a remit to the Examiners of Law Agents the fee of £2, 2s. payable by applicants under section 9 of the Law Agents (Scotland) Act 1873.

3. That so far as applicable this Act of Sederunt shall apply to any petition which may be presented by an applicant to the Lord President and Lord Justice-Clerk under section 5 of the Law Agents and Notaries Public (Scotland) Act 1891, and which does not fall under the said Act of Sederunt of 19th March 1919.

And the Lords appoint this Act to be inserted in the Books of Sederunt, and to be printed and published in common form.

STRATHCLYDE, I.P.D.

THE LATE J. CAMPBELL PENNEY, C.A. Mr J. Campbell Penney was a son of the late Lord Kinloch. He was born in 1851, and after an education at the Edinburgh Academy and at the University of St Andrews he was apprenticed as a chartered accountant with Messrs Lindsay, Jamieson & Haldane, C.A. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1877.

Mr Campbell Penney has been known to practitioners in the Courts for over thirty years as the efficient and courteous Accountant of the Court of Session. This office, to which Mr Penney was appointed in 1889, was an amalgamation of the previously distinct offices of Accountant in Bankruptcy and Accountant of

Court. His duties were not light. On his appointment there were many hundreds of unaudited judicial factories, which. required to be reduced to order. His unique experience of the details of trust administration made him a most important witness in the inquiry held in 1895 by a committee

of the House of Commons into the administration of trust funds. The funds which were under his supervision have amounted to many millions; and it is a great testimony to his capacity and business ability that such a large and important department should have been conducted with success and efficiency under his control for no less than thirty years. The duties of his office were materially increased when he was appointed during the war to be Custodian of Enemy Property.

discharged his duties and for the uniform reputation for the efficiency with which he courtesy which he showed to all. He enjoyed the most implicit confidence of the Court, and during his long tenure of the office a "report by the Accountant of Court" was the last word on the subject with which it dealt.

FACULTY OF ADVOCATES.-At a meeting of the Faculty of Advocates held on 11th March Mr Harry Adamson Young was appointed as one of the Counsel for the Poor in room of Mr W. L. Mitchell, who has resigned his membership of the Faculty.

LORDS.-The current list of causes standing for hearing in the House of Lords includes the following Scottish appeals: Clyde Shipbuilding and Engineering Co. Ltd. v. Penney; Kemp v. Glasgow Corporation; Coltness Iron Co. Ltd. v. Dobbie; Brown and Others v. Gregson; Lord Advocate (on behalf of Commissioners of Inland Revenue) v. Mackinnon's Trs.; Robertson V. Woodilee Coal and Coke Co. Ltd.; Shankland v. Robinson & Co.; Stewart v. Maclaren. The House of Lords has been hearing a number of these cases this week.

k

SCOTTISH BOARD OF HEALTH.-The Consultative Councils set up under the Scottish Board of Health Act have appointed the following chairmen and vice-chairmen :-Medical and Allied Services-Chairman, Sir Donald MacAlister, K.C.B., M.D.; vice-chairman, Dr Norman Walker. National Health Insurance-Chairman, Mr Wm. Thomson; vice-chairman, Mr Thomas J. Addly. Local Health Administration and General Health Questions - Chairman, Sir Thomas Munro, K.B.E. Highlands and Islands -Chairman, Her Grace the Duchess of Atholl, D.B.E.

THE INDUSTRIAL COURT.-The Industrial Court which was set up towards the end of last year, and which discharges the functions of a standing arbitration tribunal, is proving to be a useful institution and has already in the course of its brief existence accomplished a large amount of work. Since 20th November 1919, 208 requests for arbitration have been referred to the Court, which has held sittings not only in London but also in Glasgow, Belfast, Liverpool, Manchester, Sheffield, and elsewhere, while a certain number of cases have been dealt with in different parts of the country by single members of the Court. While the differences which have had to be adjudicated upon have dealt mainly with wages, the Court has given its attention to many other industrial matters and has settled the general wages arrangements for the spelter trade, the gas undertakings throughout Great Britain, the Scottish building trade, the clay industry, the bobbin and shuttle making industry, the seed crushing and oil milling industry, the organ building trade and the wages of women employed in railway shops. The Court has at, present before it claims for national increases of wages in the engineering, shipbuilding, and explosives trades, together with the wages of railway shopmen. The Court appears to have commended itself to both employers and employees, and judging by its past achievements and present activities Sir Robert Horne seems to be more than justified in claiming that it is serving a most useful purpose in the industrial life of a nation.

INDUSTRIAL ASSURANCE COMPANIES.-We understand that the Committee which has been inquiring into the working of industrial assurance companies has now concluded its investigation. Its recommendations include the following:

1. That all friendly societies doing assurance

2. That a minimum wage should be fixed for. all collectors.

3. That the collectors should be raised to the status of officials of their respective companies. 4. That the dividends of assurance companies should be limited.

5. That legislation should be introduced to enable any person having a claim against a company to sue in the local Court without having, as at present, to lodge beforehand a sum of money in security for costs.

EAST LOTHIAN LAWYERS ON RENTS.-The East Lothian procurators at a meeting in Haddington, decided that for the ensuing year rents should be subject to increase as soon as the Government passed their promised Bill, and that intimation should be given to the tenants that the missives would only be accepted on the landlord's right to make any statutory addition allowed by Parliament being recognised for the ensuing year. The meeting was of opinion that the suggested ten per cent. increase could only take effect six months after peace was declared.

THE Finance Committee of the County Council of Lanark have appointed Mr Alexander Murray, of the County Council staff, to be Lands Valuation Assessor and Registration Officer for Lanarkshire at a salary of £1000 per annum.

MR JOHN SPENCER MUIRHEAD, D.S.O., M.C., and Mr John Roy, have joined the firm of Messrs Baird Smiths, Muirhead & GuthrieSmith, writers, Glasgow.

LEGAL DECISION OF FARM TENANCY.— Sheriff Laing, Aberdeen, has issued an important decision bearing on the tenancy of a farm. Mr A. Dingwall Fordyce of Brucklay Castle raised an action against James Milne, farmer, Upper Mains of Asleed, Monqubitter, for removal from the farm, which has been purchased by Mr J. M'G. Petrie, Glenlogie, Alford. The pursuer asked the Court to declare that the defender's right of tenancy to the farm came to an end next Whitsunday. By lease, dated 12th and 17th February 1916, the farm was let to the defender for one year. The lease was renewed from year to year by tacit relocation. On 30th October notice was given to Milne to remove, but he intimated that he was to continue the tenancy of the farm after Whitsunday. Defender's plea in law was that the notice to quit was, in virtue of the Agricultural Land Sales (Restriction of Notice to Quit) Act 1919, null and void. The Sheriff has repelled the plea in law and decerns removal of defender from the farm, with expenses.

SCOTTISH DOMICILE CASE. APPLICATION OF AN OFFICER'S WIDOW. An interesting case involving a question of Scottish domicile was disposed of last week by Mr Justice Astbury in the Chancery Division, London. It concerned the estate of the late Colonel James Hector Charles Greenhill Lascelle, of the Indian Army, who, after his retirement, resided for some years at Ardbeg, Argyllshire.

An application was made by his widow, Mrs Clementine Stirling Lascelle, of Grasse, Alpes Maritime, France, to have it declared that she was entitled to one moiety of his personal estate, and that the same should be transferred to her accordingly. The respondents in the case were the Public Trustee, the executor of the will of the deceased, and Mrs Clementine Christian Sinclair Thoms, of Playfair Terrace, St. Andrews, one of the next-of-kin of the testator.

It appeared from the evidence read by counsel that Colonel Lascelle was born in France in 1843, his father being a Frenchman and his mother a Scotswoman. Her maiden name was Duncan, and she was a member of a well-known Scottish family called Wallace. The testator received his education in Edinburgh. He entered the Indian Army in 1861, obtaining a commission in the Bengal Forces. He was naturalised a British subject in 1879, and in that year he married a Scottish lady. In 1882 he left India, when he retired from the Indian Army, and with the exception of six years he lived a more or less wandering existence, largely due to the state of his health. In the autumn of 1884 his wife purchased a house at Ardbeg as a permanent home for herself and her husband, the reason given by her for the purchase being that it was near an estate belonging to her brother. In 1890 the wife's brother left Scotland, and Ardbeg was sold, and from that time until the testator's death he and his wife occasionally visited England and Scotland, and wintered always abroad. His death took place in 1917. The question for the Court was whether he had acquired a Scottish domicile.

His Lordship, in giving his decision, said the applicant stated that as far as she knew her husband never had any communication with his father's relatives, and as far as one could judge from evidence he identified himself with Great Britain. He held that the testator's domicile was Scottish at the date of his death, and that the applicant, the widow, was entitled to the declaration she claimed.

DR ADDISON AND THE LUNACY LAWS.-Dr Addison, the Minister of Health, has agreed to receive next month a deputation from the Executive Committee of the Mental Hospitals Association to discuss proposed amendments of the Lunacy Laws so as to bring them more into conformity with modern requirements. The

Committee represents most of the public asylums in the Kingdom.

"PRICKING" THE SHERIFFS.-The King held a Privy Council last week, at which His Majesty appointed Sheriffs to serve throughout England and Wales during the ensuing year with the exception of the County of Cornwall, for which the Prince of Wales has appointed his own Sheriffs. The appointments were made by pricking the names of the selected gentlemen on a roll submitted to the King. The pricking was done with a silver bodkin, but although the ancient form was thus preserved, the pricking of each name was done deliberately and not by chance, as in olden times.

WOMEN AND THE BAR.-On the 8th March, in the House of Commons, the Lord Chancellor (Lord Birkenhead) was the guest of "The Committee to Obtain the Opening of the Legal Profession to Women." The object of the dinner was to celebrate the passing of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act. Major J. W. Hills, M.P., presided over an attendance which included, in addition to the Lord Chancellor, the Lord Chief Justice (Lord Reading), the Solicitor-General (Sir Ernest Pollock), Viscount Haldane, the Attorney-General (Sir Gordon Hewart), Sir Henry Duke, Viscountess Rhondda, Mrs Henry Fawcett, Lady Selborne, Lady Emmott, and other distinguished leaders of the women's movement.

Miss Macmillan responded on behalf of the Scottish Bar to the toast of "The Bar."

MR H. A. INGLIS, agent for the Commercial Bank of Scotland at Ballantrae during the past 29 years, has retired on the age limit. Mr Inglis took a prominent part in the social life of the community, and was secretary of the local branch of the National Lifeboat Institution. He is succeeded by Mr John Wilson, accountant, Commercial Bank, Stranraer.

EDINBURGH INSURANCE MANAGER TO RETIRE. It is announced that Mr Henry Brown, chairman and managing director of the Century Insurance Co. Ltd., will relinquish the latter appointment at the end of March, retaining, however, the chairmanship of the company at the request of his co-directors. Mr Brown entered the company's service thirty-three years ago as manager of its Manchester branch. Within eighteen months of his appointment he was made superintendent of branches, and six months later he came to Edinburgh as chief executive officer of the company, from which position he now retires.

Erratum.-In issue of 13th March 1920, page 34, col. 1, line 18 from foot of page, for "provisional " read "professional."