McKeogh v Holmes

• Jurisdiction: Ireland
• Judgment Date: 01 January 1930
• Date: 01 January 1930
• Court: Supreme Court (Irish Free State)

[S. C., I.F.S.],

McKeogh

and

Holmes

Notes of hearing - Prepared by solicitor - Attested in office.

The transcript of shorthand notes of a High Court trial was prepared by a stenographer (employed by agreement between the parties), certified by the Judge and lodged in the Central Office. A solicitor's copy was compared and attested for use on the hearing of an appeal to the Supreme Court. Held, that the copy was acceptable for the purpose. The Supreme Court laid it down as the practice to be followed with regard to the copy to be taken out by the appellant for the purpose of supplying further copies for the use of the Court, that if the scrivenery office is satisfied to issue a document certified as a true copy of the...