DOCSLIB.ORG

Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Justice Committee

Total Page：16

File Type：pdf, Size：1020Kb

Download full-text PDF Read full-text
Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Justice Committee S T A N D I N G C O M M I T T E E O F T Y N W A L D C O U R T O F F I C I A L R E P O R T R E C O R T Y S O I K O I L B I N G V E A Y N T I N V A A L P R O C E E D I N G S D A A L T Y N Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Justice Committee Legal Services HANSARD Douglas, Monday, 17th December 2018 PP2018/0190 CLAJ-LS, No. 4/2018 All published Official Reports can be found on the Tynwald website: www.tynwald.org.im/business/hansard Published by the Office of the Clerk of Tynwald, Legislative Buildings, Finch Road, Douglas, Isle of Man, IM1 3PW. © High Court of Tynwald, 2018 STANDING COMMITTEE, MONDAY, 17th DECEMBER 2018 Members Present: Chairman: Mrs J P Poole-Wilson MLC Mr L L Hooper MHK Mr C R Robertshaw MHK Clerk: Mr R I S Phillips Assistant Clerk: Miss F Gale Contents Procedural .................................................................................................................................... 101 EVIDENCE OF First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls, Andrew Corlett; Deemster Alastair Montgomerie; Deputy High Bailiff, Jane Hughes; and Chief Registrar, Stuart Quayle ................ 101 The Committee sat in private at 12.50 p.m. ................................................................................ 134 __________________________________________________________________ 100 CLAJ-LS/18 STANDING COMMITTEE, MONDAY, 17th DECEMBER 2018 Standing Committee of Tynwald on Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Justice Legal Services The Committee sat in public at 10.30 a.m. in the Legislative Council Chamber, Legislative Buildings, Douglas [MRS POOLE-WILSON in the Chair] Procedural 5 The Chairman (Mrs Poole-Wilson): Good morning and welcome to this public meeting of the Constitutional and Legal Affairs and Justice Committee. I am Jane Poole-Wilson MLC and I chair this Committee. With me are the other members of the Committee, Mr Lawrie Hooper MHK and Mr Chris Robertshaw MHK. Today we are taking evidence on the topic of legal services in the Isle of Man. This inquiry is 10 an amalgam of our previously announced inquiry into the regulation of legal services in the Isle of Man and our more recently announced inquiry into the process of becoming a Manx advocate. This inquiry will also include consideration of the proposed Public Defender Scheme. We will be hearing today from three members of the Manx judiciary, accompanied by the Chief Registrar. 15 Before we begin, could I please ask everyone to ensure that any mobile phones are off or on silent, so that we do not have any interruptions; and for the purposes of Hansard I will also be ensuring that we do not have two people speaking at once. EVIDENCE OF First Deemster and Clerk of the Rolls, Andrew Corlett; Deemster Alastair Montgomerie; Deputy High Bailiff, Jane Hughes; and Chief Registrar, Stuart Quayle Q258. The Chairman: Thank you for attending today. For the record, could you each please state your name and the capacity in which you are appearing today. 20 The Deputy High Bailiff: My name is Jane Hughes. I am the Deputy High Bailiff. The First Deemster: Andrew Corlett, First Deemster. 25 Deemster Montgomerie: Alastair Montgomerie, Deemster. The Chief Registrar: Stuart Quayle, Chief Registrar. __________________________________________________________________ 101 CLAJ-LS/18 STANDING COMMITTEE, MONDAY, 17th DECEMBER 2018 Q259. The Chairman: Thank you. Before we begin, I thought it would be helpful to acknowledge for the record that this Committee respects the separation of powers between the 30 judiciary, the executive and the legislature, and understands that there is a line between members of the judiciary giving evidence pertinent to the effective operation of the courts and legal services, whilst avoiding commenting on matters that might impact the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. I think it is probably also worth stating that perhaps the fear of crossing this line is one of the 35 reasons why Members of our parliament have not engaged as well as they might have done with the judiciary on matters where it is important to take your evidence into account. So we very much welcome having you here today to take your evidence and we would also like to reassure you that this Committee wishes to adopt a considered approach to taking evidence, which respects the boundaries that I have mentioned. 40 Can I thank you also for your written submission to the Committee and what we would like to do is explore some of the things that you have raised in your written submission a little more. So if I could start, please, thinking about the use of non-Manx qualified judges in our courts. You provided some information on the numbers of part-time, non-resident judges that appear in or that sit in our courts and the reasons for using non-resident, part-time members of the 45 judiciary. I wonder if you could talk a little bit more about what you see the trends to be. Are we seeing more non-resident, part-time members of the judiciary and if we are, what are the reasons for that? The First Deemster: Madam Chairman, thank you very much for those opening comments, 50 which are much appreciated. I for my own part do not see any particular change in the pattern of using non-resident judges. It is very much driven by demand. Particular cases cause a particular spike in demand for the use of non-resident Deemsters and I think, certainly from my own perspective, it is a fairly steady pattern. 55 For example, at the moment of course we are one judge down, as it were. We are still in the process of replacing the gaps left when the previous First Deemster retired. So we are probably using not only non-resident judges but we are using the panel perhaps more than we might have done maybe this time last year. But, subject to what my colleagues have to say on that, I do not see any major change. 60 Q260. The Chairman: So it is a question of demand, capacity, (The First Deemster: It is.) rather than any need for specialist knowledge or experience. The First Deemster: Sometimes it is driven by specialist knowledge. I think we said that in our 65 memorandum, but it is usually a case which is a very lengthy one. For example, if we are told the case is going to last four to six weeks or even longer, to have one of the permanent members of the judiciary dealing with that would cause major problems – we would just not be able to deal with anything else during that time, and that would cause problems. Yes, it is more to do with length of proceedings, certainly on the civil side which I have most to do with. 70 I think there has been a bit of a spike in certain elements of criminal work – proceeds of crime I think has tended to increase. Maybe Deemster Montgomerie could say something about that, and we have had to bring in people to deal with that more recently. Deemster Montgomerie: Yes, I think as a result of the Moneyval visit to the Isle of Man, it 75 would be fair to say that the number of proceeds of crime applications to the court have spiked. They have gone up, I would use the word ‘dramatically’. As a consequence, whenever you get an increase in the number of orders that the court makes under the Proceeds of Crime Act, you are going to get an increase in the number of challenges to the orders that the court has made and __________________________________________________________________ 102 CLAJ-LS/18 STANDING COMMITTEE, MONDAY, 17th DECEMBER 2018 that too has increased considerably. Certainly as a result, I have started using specialists in 80 proceeds of crime matters from England to deal with the challenges. Q261. The Chairman: Okay, thank you. Anything on that? Thank you. If then we could look at appearance in the courts by non-Manx advocates, and again I suppose the question from the Committee’s perspective is a bit more about the 85 situations that, in your experience, give rise to non-Manx advocates being temporarily licensed to appear in the courts. Again, are you seeing any particular trends? Are you seeing more people being granted temporary licences? So any further information you can give us on that, please. The First Deemster: I think we have addressed this in the paper. I am not sure whether we 90 actually provided any statistics, did we, Mr Quayle, as such? We could certainly provide those statistics very easily because they are certainly kept. That is one area where we do have, I think, pretty reliable statistics. Again from my perspective, I would suggest that probably the statistics will show a decrease actually in the number of specialists or non-Manx advocates being licensed under the Advocates 95 Act. I think the decisions of my predecessor and indeed, the various judges of appeal who have dealt with reviews from those decisions, have to some extent, not exactly tightened the criteria because the criteria are laid down by statute, but the fact is that we do now have an excellent selection of specialists in the Manx Bar who can deal with virtually every case. It is pretty rare that one cannot find, or a client cannot find, the specialism that is needed for a particular case. 100 Again, one will find very lengthy cases where the demands on an advocate’s practice will be such that it would be of necessity that the client will want to have a barrister who can devote weeks or sometimes months to a particular case.
Load more

Recommended publications
  • Standing Committee of Tynwald on Emoluments First Report for the Session 2020-21 Provision for an Independent Pay Body, and Other Matters
    PP 2021/0014 STANDING COMMITTEE OF TYNWALD ON EMOLUMENTS FIRST REPORT FOR THE SESSION 2020-2021 PROVISION FOR AN INDEPENDENT PAY BODY, AND OTHER MATTERS STANDING COMMITTEE OF TYNWALD ON EMOLUMENTS FIRST REPORT FOR THE SESSION 2020-21 PROVISION FOR AN INDEPENDENT PAY BODY, AND OTHER MATTERS 1. There shall be a Standing Committee of the Court on Emoluments. 2. The Committee shall be chaired by the Speaker of the House of Keys and composed of the Members of the Management and Members’ Standards Committee of the Keys, and three Members of the Council elected by that Branch. 3. The Committee shall - (i) consider and report to Tynwald on - (a) the emoluments of H E Lieutenant Governor, their Honours the First and Second Deemsters and the Judge of Appeal, H M Attorney General, the High Bailiff, the Deputy High Bailiff and the Clerk of Tynwald; (b) the Tynwald Membership Pension Scheme; and (c) in addition to its consultative functions set out in paragraph 8.3 (ii) and as it thinks fit, the emoluments of Members of Tynwald; (iii) carry out its consultative functions under section 6(3) of the Payments of Members’ Expenses Act 1989, as the body designated by the Payment Of Members' Expenses (Designation of Consultative Body) Order 1989. The powers, privileges and immunities relating to the work of a committee of Tynwald include those conferred by the Tynwald Proceedings Act 1876, the Privileges of Tynwald (Publications) Act 1973, the Tynwald Proceedings Act 1984 and by the Standing Orders of Tynwald Court. Committee Membership The Hon J P Watterson SHK (Rushen) (Chairman) Mr D J Ashford MHK (Douglas East) Miss T M August-Hanson MLC Ms J M Edge MHK (Onchan) Mr R W Henderson MLC Mrs M M Maska MLC Mr C P Robertshaw MHK (Douglas East) Copies of this Report may be obtained from the Tynwald Library, Legislative Buildings, Finch Road, Douglas, IM1 3PW (Tel: 01624 685520) or may be consulted at www.tynwald.org.im.
    [Show full text]
  • Rule of Law : the Backbone of Economic Growth
    Rule of law : the backbone of economic growth (A lecture delivered by Deemster David Doyle at the Oxford Union on 17 July 2014 as part of the Small Countries Financial Management Programme) Introduction “By this Book and the Holy Contents thereof and by the wonderful Works that GOD hath miraculously wrought in Heaven above and in the Earth beneath in Six Days and Seven Nights; I David Charles Doyle do swear that I will without respect of favour or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity or affinity, envy or malice, execute the Laws of this Isle justly betwixt Our Sovereign LADY THE QUEEN and Her Subjects within this Isle, and betwixt Party and Party as indifferently as the Herring Backbone doth lie in the midst of the Fish. So help me God. And by the Contents of this Book” That was the judicial oath I first took in 2003 when I was appointed Second Deemster and again in 2010 when I was appointed First Deemster. I am sharing it with you this evening because it embodies the essentials of the rule of law. Lord Hope, the former Deputy President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, was kind enough to refer to the Manx judicial oath in the chapter he contributed to Judge and Jurist Essays in Memory of Lord Rodger of Earlsferry (2013 Oxford University Press) at pages 75-76. Justice must be delivered according to the law, without surrendering to any improper influences and delivering equal treatment to everybody, “without respect of favour or friendship, love or gain, consanguinity or affinity, envy or malice”.
    [Show full text]
  • Duties of Advocates to the High Court of Justice of the Isle of Man
    NOTES IN RESPECT OF TALKS TO TRAINEE MANX ADVOCATES (Talk at 5pm on 16 October 2017) DUTIES OF ADVOCATES TO THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE ISLE OF MAN C O N T E N T S Pages The Advocate’s Oath ……..………………………………………………………………………… 1 The Manx legal profession ………………………………………………………………………… 1 - 5 The Advocate’s duty to assist the court ……………………………………………………... 5 - 7 R v C ………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8 - 15 Seeking to withdraw from a case ………………………………………………………………. 15 - 20 Assistance to the court …………………………………………………………………………….. 20 - 24 Nigel Teare’s lecture on The Advocate and the Deemster …………………………….. 24 - 26 Concise skeleton arguments ……………………………………………………………………… 26 - 33 Geoffrey Ma’s lecture on The Practice of Law : a Vocation Survives Amidst Globalisation ……………………………………………………………………………………………. 33 - 35 Unnecessary documentation …………………………………………………………….……….. 35 – 39 A useful Indian authority ………………………………………………………………………….. 39 - 40 Other authorities ……………………………………………………………………………………… 40 - 43 Request clarification of judgment where genuinely necessary .……………………… 43 Draw up draft order …………………..…………………………………………………………….. 43 - 45 Stand up to the Deemster ….……………………………………………………………………… 45 - 46 Disclosure duties ……………………………………………………………………………………... 46 - 53 The new litigation culture: expedition, proportionality and co-operation not confrontation ………………………………………..……………………..…………………………. 53 - 63 Recusal applications ……..…………………………………………………………………………. 63 Pressure ..………….……………………………………………………………………………………. 63 - 64 Lord Neuberger’s lecture on The Future of the Bar …………………………………….… 64 – 68 Rule of Law: special duty ………………………………………………………………………….. 68 - 71 Further reading ………………………………………………………………………………………… 71 - 72 DUTIES OF ADVOCATES TO THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE OF THE ISLE OF MAN The Advocate’s Oath 1. By his or her oath an advocate swears that the advocate “will truly and honestly demean myself in the practice and knowledge of an Advocate to the best of my ability.” This oath dates back to the Attorney’s Act 1777 and focuses on two crucial elements of the practice of an advocate.
    [Show full text]
  • 2012Onhill-Sittings
    ON TYNWALD HILL below. The First Deemster sits at the place appointed on the south side of the Hill for His Excellency, the President of Tynwald, the promulgation of the laws in English the Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man, the and the Second Deemster sits in the Attorney General and other Members corresponding position on the north side of the Legislative Council, the Clerk of the Hill for the reading in Manx. The of the Legislative Council, the Persons Deemster, Yn Lhaihder, the Captains of in attendance, the Sword Bearer, the the Parishes, the Coroners and the Deputy Private Secretary to His Excellency and Chief Constable sit on the lowest tier. the Surgeon to the Household will When His Excellency is ready and the occupy the top tier; the Speaker, the officials have taken up their positions on Chief Minister, Members and Secretary the Hill. of the House of Keys together with their Chaplain will be accommodated All stand on the next tier; the High Bailiff, the Representative of the Commission of the THE ROYAL ANTHEM Peace, the Chief Registrar, the Mayor of God save our gracious Queen, Douglas, the Chairmen of the Town and Long live our noble Queen, Village Commissioners, the Archdeacon, God Save the Queen. the Vicar-General, the Clergy, the Roman Send her victorious, Catholic Dean, the representatives of the Happy and glorious, Free Churches, the Salvation Army and Long to reign over us, the Chief Constable will occupy the tier God Save the Queen. TINVAAL • 5.00 JERREY SOUREE 2012 21 All sit They occupy the step below the top step and, when all four are in position on His Excellency says: bended knee, take the following oath, Learned First Deemster, direct the Court administered by the First Deemster: to be fenced.
    [Show full text]
  • AMANDA GRIFFIN the Manx Music Festival
    EnterText 2.1 AMANDA GRIFFIN The Manx Music Festival: A Socio-Cultural Consideration Introduction At the close of the 1993 Manx Music Festival, Sir Charles Kerruish, then President of the Isle of Man parliament, Tynwald, stated: “This festival demonstrates the strength of Manx culture as it is today. Frankly it makes me feel proud to be Manx and happy in the knowledge that our cultural heritage is in such safe keeping.”1 This article is a consideration of the ways in which this music festival can be claimed to demonstrate “the strength of Manx culture as it is today.” By examining the festival from two perspectives it will consider the ways in which the festival is negotiated as a symbol of Manx culture. The first of these perspectives focuses on the meanings found within the festival itself, and the second on the place the Manx Music Festival occupies in the broader culture of the Isle of Man as a whole. Ultimately the article will show how a competitive music festival is used as symbol of both culture and identity. The empirical research for this paper took place over a number of preparatory months and culminated in an intensive six-week period of field study in the Isle of Man that included attending the 108th Manx Music Festival in April 2000. I have chosen to report my findings from this research using the present tense, but this is by Amanda Griffin: The Manx Music Festival150 EnterText 2.1 no means an attempt to place the research in some sort of historically ambivalent moment, with disregard to the passage of time.
    [Show full text]
  • 220155833.Pdf
    View metadata, citation and similar papers at core.ac.uk brought to you by CORE provided by Oxford Brookes University: RADAR RADAR Oxford Brookes University – Research Archive and Digital Asset Repository (RADAR) Judicial Officers and Advocates of the Isle of Man, 1765-1991 Edge, P (2000) This version is available: https://radar.brookes.ac.uk/radar/items/2b20d2b0-3d6d-06ab-3090-36635db62328/1/ Available on RADAR: August 2010 Copyright © and Moral Rights are retained by the author(s) and/ or other copyright owners. A copy can be downloaded for personal non-commercial research or study, without prior permission or charge. This item cannot be reproduced or quoted extensively from without first obtaining permission in writing from the copyright holder(s). The content must not be changed in any way or sold commercially in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders. This document is the original version. Some differences between the published version and this version may remain and you are advised to consult the published version if you wish to cite from it. go/radar www.brookes.ac.uk/ Directorate of Learning Resources Judicial Officers and Advocates of the Isle of Man, 1765-1991. Page created by [email protected], from data gathered in 1992. Page created 1/1/2000, not maintained. Governors and Lieutenant-Governors. 1761 John Wood. (Governor) 1773 Henry Hope. 1775 Richard Dawson. 1777 Edward Smith. (Governor) 1790 Alexander Shaw. 1793 John Murray, Duke of Atholl. (Governor) 1804 Henry Murray. 1805 Colonel Cornelius Smelt. 1832 Colonel Lord Ready. 1845 Charles Hope.
    [Show full text]
  • Modernisation of the Island's Electoral System
    Modernisation of the Island’s Electoral System A Consultation Document Cabinet Office 1 Contents Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 4 Why we are consulting............................................................................................................................ 4 What happens next ................................................................................................................................. 4 Register of Electors ................................................................................................................................. 5 Special categories of qualifying persons ................................................................................................. 6 Electoral Registration Officer .................................................................................................................. 7 Provision of information to electoral registration officer....................................................................... 7 Supply of information contained in register ........................................................................................... 7 Discretion to permit persons to vote ...................................................................................................... 8 Consolidation of election rules ............................................................................................................... 9 Minimum age
    [Show full text]
  • Deemster Doyle: His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor: Deemster
    SWEARING-IN OF DEPUTY HIGH BAILIFF AT COURT NUMBER 3, ISLE OF MAN COURTS OF JUSTICE – 29th JULY 2011 Deemster Doyle: Your Excellency, Ms Richardson, Your Honours, Your Worships, Madam President, distinguished guests. It is my great pleasure this afternoon to welcome you all to the ceremony of the administration of oaths on the appointment of Jayne Hughes as Deputy High Bailiff. I especially welcome the family and friends of Jayne Hughes. In particular Jayne’s husband Terry, daughter Robyn and sister in law Carol. Jayne’s son Duncan cannot be with us today as he recently graduated as a doctor and is busy working at a hospital in England as I speak here in Court Number 3 in Douglas in the Isle of Man. Without further ado I now ask His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor Adam Wood to read the warrant of appointment of Jayne Hughes as Deputy High Bailiff. His Excellency the Lieutenant Governor: In exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 1(2) of the Summary Jurisdiction Act 1989 and of all other enabling powers I hereby appoint Jayne Hughes to the office of Deputy High Bailiff to hold office from 25th July 2011. As witness my hand the 1st day of June 2011 Deemster Doyle: Thank you, Your Excellency. I will now administer the Oath of Allegiance and the Oath of Deputy High Bailiff to Mrs. Hughes. Mrs. Jayne Hughes: I Jayne Hughes do swear by almighty God that I will be faithful and bear true allegiance to Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II her heirs and successors.
    [Show full text]
  • David Doyle to Become Judge of the Cayman Islands' Grand
    News Release 6th April 2021 David Doyle to become Judge of the Cayman Islands’ Grand Court It is with a mixture of pride, pleasure and sadness that we announce that David Doyle CBE of Cains, the former First Deemster, is stepping down as a director of the Small Countries Financial Management Centre to take up a position as a full-time Judge of the Cayman Islands’ Grand Court, to serve in the Financial Services Division. He is due to take up his new role in the summer of 2021. After he retired as the Isle of Man’s First Deemster in 2018, David became a Director of the Small Countries Financial Management Centre in 2019 and has made a very positive contribution in that role. Pride and pleasure that David has been appointed to this very prestigious position. Sadness that it means he must stand down as a Director of the Centre. We will miss his wise advice and engaging company. In announcing Deemster Doyle’s appointment, the Cayman Islands’ Chief Justice said: “Deemster Doyle has a real commitment, passion, and desire to contribute to the development of the law and the administration of justice, specifically in the area of financial services. His extensive understanding of relevant local, regional, and international legislation coupled with his wide-ranging experiences hearing financial services matters in the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands will enhance the ability of the Grand Court to continue advance the administration of justice in the financial services sector. I am very pleased to be welcoming him as a colleague and member of our judiciary.” Caymans’ gain is the Centre’s loss, although we are sure David’s support for and commitment to the work of the Small Countries Financial Management Centre will be undiminished.
    [Show full text]
  • Up Close and Personal
    www.business365iom.co.uk | OCTOBER 2020 ISSUE UP CLOSE AND PERSONAL WITH How one of the island’s leading Corporate Service Providers is putting people first FINANCIAL MAJOR ACQUISITION DAMNING INTELLIGENCE FOR STRIX REPORT The Isle of Man Financial Intelligence Unit Strix Group Plc, the Isle of Man-based leader in the An independent report commissioned by is among eight law enforcement agencies design, manufacture and supply of kettle safety government has described the Department of from smaller financial centres to be granted controls, has entered into a conditional agreement Education, Sport and Culture’s management, Associate Membership of the International to acquire the entire share capital of Italian water and its relationship with schools and teachers, Anti-Corruption Coordination Centre (IACC). purification business LAICA for approximately as fractured and in need of repair. €19.6m. THE ISLE OF MAN’S ONLY DEDICATED BUSINESS MAGAZINE NEWS | COMMENT | INSIGHT | PEOPLE | MOVEMENTS | FEATURES | TECHNOLOGY | HEALTH ProtectProtectProtectProtect youryouryouryour businessbusinessbusinessbusiness ProtectSecureProtectProtectSecureProtect offshoreoffshore youryour email,youryouremail, archivingarchiving && securitysecurity awarenessawareness businesstrainingbusinessbusinesstrainingbusiness servicesservices SecureSecure offshoreoffshore email,email, archivingarchiving && Inside securityInsidesecurity your your organisation organisation awarenessawareness ProtectProtectProtectProtectEducateEducate employees employees to to recognise recognise
    [Show full text]
  • Remuneration for Scrutiny Roles
    PP 2016/0111 STANDING COMMITTEE OF TYNWALD ON EMOLUMENTS FIRST REPORT 2015-16 REMUNERATION FOR SCRUTINY ROLES FIRST REPORT OF THE STANDING COMMITTEE OF TYNWALD ON EMOLUMENTS 2015-16: REMUNERATION FOR SCRUTINY ROLES The Committee shall - (i) consider and report to Tynwald on - (a) the emoluments of H E Lieutenant Governor, their Honours the First and Second Deemsters and the Judge of Appeal, H M Attorney General, the High Bailiff, the Deputy High Bailiff and the Clerk of Tynwald; (b) the Tynwald Membership Pension Scheme; and (c) in addition to its consultative functions set out in paragraph 4.3(ii) and as it thinks fit, the emoluments of Members of Tynwald; (ii) carry out its consultative functions under section 6(3) of the Payments of Members’ Expenses Act 1989, as the body designated by the Payment of Members’ Expenses (Designation of Consultative Body) Order 1989.” The powers, privileges and immunities relating to the work of a committee of Tynwald are those conferred by sections 3 and 4 of the Tynwald Proceedings Act 1876, sections 1 to 4 of the Privileges of Tynwald (Publications) Act 1973 and sections 2 to 4 of the Tynwald Proceedings Act 1984. Committee Membership The Hon S C Rodan SHK (Garff) (Chairman) Hon R H Quayle MHK (Middle) Mr D J Quirk MHK (Onchan) Mr C R Robertshaw MHK (Douglas East) Mr D M Anderson MLC Mr D C Cretney MLC Mr J R Turner MLC Copies of this Report may be obtained from the Tynwald Library, Legislative Buildings, Finch Road, Douglas IM1 3PW (Tel 01624 685520, Fax 01624 685522) or may be consulted at www.tynwald.org.im All correspondence with regard to this Report should be addressed to the Clerk of Tynwald, Legislative Buildings, Finch Road, Douglas IM1 3PW.
    [Show full text]
  • Mona Miscellany : a Selection of Proverbs, Sayings, Ballads, Customs, Superstitions, and Legends, Peculiar to the Isle Of
    ^'^.^^r^:^*-'^- (^ijOM. ^U- I ESTABLISHED IN THE YEAE MDGCCLVIII VOL. XXL DOUGLAS, ISLE OF MAN" PRINTED FOE THE MANX SOCIETY MDCCCI.XXIII N.B. —Members at a distance are requested to acknowledge their copies to the Honorary Secretaiy, Mr. Paul Bridson, Atholl Street, Douglas, to whom also their Subscriptions may be remitted. Prmted by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh. ^^ O iWy Prrsiticnt. His Excellency the Lieutenant-Goa^ernor. Utre=Pr£0iti£nt0. The Hon. anrl Eight Eev. Horace, Lord Bishop of Sodor and Man. The Honourable Charles Hope. James Gell, H.M.'s Attorney- General of the Isle of Man. EiDGWAY Harrison, Water-Bailiff and Seneschal. The Venerable Jos. C. Moore, Archdeacon. EicHARD Jebb, Vicar-General. J. S. GoLDiE Taubmajs^ Speaker of the House of Keys. ^Council Henry Cadman, Howstrake. T. C. Callow, Douglas. John F. Crellin, H.K., OiTysdale. G. "W. Dumbell, H.K., Belmont. Wm. Farrant, Douglas. Ed. Curphey Farrant, Ballakillinghau. P. L. Garrett, Douglas. William Gell, Douglas. Samuel Harris, High Bailiff of Douglas. Wm. Harrison, Eock Mount. John M. Jeffcott, H.K., High Bailiff of Castletown. Eev. Joshua Jones, D.C.L., Principal of King William's College. Eev. W. Kermode, Vicar of Maughold. William Kneale, Douglas. Egbert J. Moore, H.K., High Bailiff of Peel. Wm. Fine Moore, H.K., Croukbourne. H. B. Noble, Villa Marina, Douglas. Eichard Sherwood, H.K., Douglas. Eev. Theo"- Talbot, Eamsay. T. Heywood Thomson, M.D., Michael. ^Treasurer. Paul Bridson, Douglas. f^on. .Secretaries. Paul Bridson, Douglas. John Goldsmith, Douglas. MONA MISCELLANY " Here's metal more atti-active—And this ovu' life, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks.
    [Show full text]