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APRIL, 1908]
The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.
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...RESOLVED.—The Bar Council being of
opinion that, before giving a certificate of
prima facie
title, it is the duty of the counsel to
whom the title is submitted, in addition to the
perusal of the title, to satisfy himself of the
identity of the parcels of land mentioned in
the Originating Application and Map, with
those mentioned in the title-deeds, it is hereby
resolved that the following scale of fees shall
be adopted by the Bar :—
1. Where purchase does not exceed ^2000,
minimum fee, ^3
y.
2.
Where purchase exceeds ^2000, minimum
fee of ^3 3$., together with a further fee of
IDS. 6d.
for each document of title to be perused
over five.
Originating Application and Map to be con
sidered as one document of title.
SOLICITORS' BUILDINGS,
FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN,
2
^nd January,
1908.
DEAR SIR,—I beg
to acknowledge
the
receipt of your letter of the i6th ult., and copy
resolution enclosed therein, which the Council
of this Society have had under their consider
ation.
The Council of this Society regret that the
Council of the Bar have deemed it necessary
to formulate any scale of fees in connexion
with the giving of the certificate
of prima facie
title under the Estates Commissioners' Rules
of the 4th November, 1907.
My Council are emphatically of opinion that
nothing should now be done which in any way
would
tend t,o create a difference between
solicitors and their counsel, and, as in the
past there has been no suggestion of unfair
treatment of the Bar by the solicitors' profes
sion, it occurs to my Council that no hard and
fast scale of fees for counsel should be sought
to be laid down.
Under these circumstances, combined with
the fact that Mr. Justice Wylie has now sent to
the Bar Council a memorandum explanatory of
what it would be in future necessary for counsel
to do in connexion with the giving of the cer
tificate, it is suggested that matters should
remain as heretofore.
Faithfully yours,
.
W. G. WAKELY,
Secretary.
T. H. Maxwell, Hon. Sec.
pro tern.,
General Council of the Bar, Law
Library, Four Courts, Dublin.
54 LANSUOWNK ROAD, DUBLIN,
24///
January,
1908.
DEAR SIR,—I bog- formally to acknowledge
receipt of your letter to Mr. T. H. Maxwell,
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Hon. Sec.
pro tern,
for Bar'Council, referring
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to the matter
of prima facie
title.
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I shall place the letter before the Council at
the next meeting.
Yours faithfully,
HENRY HANNA,
Hon. Sec. Bar Council.
W. G. Wakely, Esq.
LAW LIBRARY, .FOUR COURTS,
March yd,
1908.
DEAR SIR,—I beg to acknowledge receipt
of your letter of the 2nd inst., enclosing a copy
of the resolution of the Council of the Incor
porated Law Society of Ireland in support of
the Civil Bill Courts (Dublin) Bill, which I
shall lay before the Bar Council at their next
meeting.
In further reply to your letter of the 22nd
January, as to the fees for certificates of
prima
facie
titles, I beg to say that your letter was
before the Bar Council at their meeting last
Saturday, and I have been asked to say that
one of the chief objects of the Council, in
passing the resolution
referred
to, was
to
obviate any differences between solicitors and
their counsel.
For nearly all work done by the Bar there is
a recognized minimum fee, and the Bar Council
think that the Incorporated Law Society will,
on consideration, concur in the advisability of
having a minimum fee fixed for this new work.
Except as regards minimum fee, the Bar
Council have laid down no hard and fast scale,
and do not desire to do so.
Before passing the resolution the necessity
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for some minimum fee had become abundantly
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plain to them, and the scale was fixed as a
result of consultation with the leading Con
veyancing Counsel at the Bar.
Faithfully yours,
HENRY HANNA,
Hon. Sec. Bar Council.
W. G.
Wakely, Esq., Secretary,
Incorporated Law
Society of
Ireland.
SOLICITORS' BUILDINGS,
FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN,
i2th March,
1908.
DEAR SIR,— In reply to your letter of the
3rd inst., I am directed to inform you that the