Irish Lawyer In Britain Says He Is An Alien
LONDON, April 22 (Recd 6 pm).— Sergeant A. M. Sullivan, K.C., a 78year Irish lawyer and last of the King's Sergeants-at-Arms, has closed his English practice because, in his own opinion, he is an alien.’ He holds that as Eire has become a foreign State all southern Irishmen are now aliens. As one of them he is, he says, disqualified from being a K.C. and certainly from being His Majesty’s Sergeant-at-Law. He rejects recent ministerial statements that Eire’s change to a Republic does not materially alter the position of Irishmen in Britain, and says that other lawyers share his view that the Government cannot alter the effect of the existing Statutes except by Act of Parliament.
He has advised all Irishmen not to act in any public office pending new legislation to regularise their positions. Irishmen, he holds, are now automatically debarred from sitting in Parliament, or from membership of a local council. Any Member of Parliament born in southern Ireland who sit* in Parliament may, he says, be sued for penalties, and it would be foolish lor them to rely for protection of Ministerial statements which the Courts may decide to be wrong.
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Wanganui Chronicle, 23 April 1949, Page 5
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