The Gazette 1972

D I SPOSAL OF DOCUMENTS If you are likely to be disposing of documents please write to the Public Record Office of Ireland or ring 01-778092 extension 113 before doing so. We shall arrange for one of our archivists to call to your office and examine the material intended for disposal. The archivist willl select those documents which appear to be of historiacl interest and will ask your consent to remove them to the Public Record Office which will defray the removal charges.

place it is now kept. A list of the documents trans- ferred will be sent to you and you wil have the right of permanent or temporary recall of any item on the list. With the help of solicitors over the past 50 years and with the approval of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland thousands of legal, estate, business and family papers have been saved and made available for research. The office shall be grateful for your co-operation in this matter. B. MacGIOLLA CHORDA, Deputy Keeper of Public Records.

It is not intended that this will involve you or your staff in any additional work; the archivist will be pre- pared to examine the material in whatever condition or

SOLICITORS UNDERTAK INGS The attention of members is drawn to the risks attending personal undertakings given by solicitors. A solicitor who gives an unqualified personal undertaking is personally responsible financially irrespective of his ability to obtain indemnity or reimbursement from the client or any other person. It is suggested that before giving an undertaking either to pay money, deposit title deeds, or in respect of any other matter attention should be directed to the following points.

not covered by the above conditions. It is important however that members of the Society should be aware of the risk involved in giving personal undertakings and for this reason the Council think it advisable to bring them particularly to the notice of the profession.

IRISH SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN

1. There should be an irrevocable undertaking in writing by the client to the solicitor authorising him to give the undertaking. 2. There should be an irrevocable written retainer by the client to the solicitor continuing until the under- taking is carried out. This will prevent the client from changing his solicitor in order to avoid compliance with the undertaking, an event which unfortunately, although rarely, has occurred in the past. 3. There should be in existence at the time of the Undertaking which involves dealing with property an enforceable contract in writing to which the client is a party. 4. The undertaking should be qualified by a condi- tion that it applies only in the event of the deeds or funds the subject of the undertaking coming to the solicitor's hands. 5. An undertaking dependent upon the completion °f a contract by the client should be qualified by a condition that it binds the solicitor only on completion of the contract and that if the contract is rescinded by 'he vendor or if he otherfise fails to complete the solicitor will be absolved from the undertaking. 6. Solicitors for business reasons or because of the status or standing of their clients may be prepared to a ccept the risk attendant on undertakings which are

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