GAZETTE
OCTOBER 1993
newspapers reported the Law
Society's view that Ireland had one of
the most inadequate Civil Legal Aid
schemes in western Europe. The
Irish
Independent
of 29 September, 1993,
reported on the Viewpoint column of
the September issue of the
Gazette
which had criticised the inadequate
scope of the pilot scheme.
Call for Farmers' Tribunal
The Society's call for the
establishment of an Agricultural
Appeals Tribunal to hear appeals from
administrative decisions taken
affecting farmers by the Minister of
Agriculture and officials of the
Department of Agriculture was
reported in the
Irish Press
and
Cork
Examiner
of 17 September, 1993, and
in the following week in the
Kerryman, Kerry's Eye, Anglo Celt
and
Dundalk Democrat.
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Barbara Cahalane
Soc iety Exhibi ts at
61st Ploughing
Championships
Thirty members of the Tipperary Bar
Association volunteered to staff the
Law Society stand at the National
Ploughing Championships in
Ballyclerihan, Clonmel, over the three
days of the event from 28-30
September last. The newly-designed
Law Society stand with attractive
colour photographs and graphics
bearing the slogan "See your solicitor
first for independent, expert advice",
attracted a large number of visitors.
The most frequent queries concerned
wills, the rules governing intestacy,
inheritance tax, transfer of land
ownership, leases, as well as a host of
other topics. The newly introduced
probate tax was the subject of many
queries and many examples of its
harsh effects emerged, such as the
case of a widow of a young farmer
who died leaving four children. The
farm is valued at £200,000 but there
are no liquid assets in the estate
leaving the widow to find £4,000 to
pay the tax.
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Judgment Mortgages -
A False Dawn
(Continued from page 300)
14.(1896) 31 ILTR42.
15.(1897) 31 ILTR 166.
16
.Re
Flannery
(1971) IR 10;
Dardis and
Dunnes Seeds
v
Hickey
Kenny J., 1 1 July,
1974, Unreported.
17.(1867) LR 2 HL 220 at 232/3.
18.Atpages 4/5 of his unreported judgment.
19.(1861) 11 Ir. Ch. Rep. 365.
20.(1888) LR (Ir.) Vol XXI11 61.
21.(1888) LR (Ir.) Vol XXI11 61 at 85.
22.Supreme Court, 9 June, 1972 unreported.
23.Unreported judgment of 29 May, 1972
at p. 5.
24.Atpage 6 of the Court's unanimous
judgment.
25.See Wylie's
Irish Land Law
(2nd Edition)
paragraph 13/175, 22/11.
26.(1971) IR 10.
27.(1930) IR 332.
28.(1971) IR 10 at 14.
29.(1858) 8 ICLR 301 at 308.
30.(1896) 31 ILTR 42.
31.(1950) 84 ILTR 160.
32.Ibid.
•Christopher Doyle BL is a practising
barrister.
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Ret i r i ng?
The Law Society is a corporate
member of the
Retirement Planning
Council of Ireland,
which offers:
• retirement planning courses
• free counselling service
• retirement advice
• publications.
Contact:
Retirement Planning Council of
Ireland,
27 - 29 Lower Pembroke Street,
Dublin 2.
Tel: 01-6613139
Fax: 01-6611368
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PHONES
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not at that extension
when you phone.
John Dowling
Director