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highlighted the various important points which
Practitioners must bear in mind in Conveyancing
matters, particularly the great necessity to take
care.
Copies of the two lectures are available from
The Transcript Secretary at 6/6 and 12/- each
respectively.
IRISH
MEDICAL
ASSOCIATION
AND
ACCIDENT CLAIMS ASSOCIATION
Agreed Scale of Fees recommended for payment
to Doctors for services to Insurance Companies or
their Solicitors
1.
Examination and Report
Preliminary
report by general
practitioner on agreed standard
form
................................. £ 5
5
0
(Copy of standard form can be
obtained from IMA House on
request)
Other medical reports ............ £7 7
0
Plus travelling expenses outside
a radius of 5 miles where in
curred.
2. Attending High Court
Per day or part of day ............
£31 10
0
(this fee includes a consultation
with Counsel,
if necessary, on
day of Court.)
3. Attending Circuit Court
Per day or part of day ............
£15 15
0
4. Attending District Court
Per day or part of day ............
£15 15
0
5. Retainer Fee,
i.e. where a doctor is asked to
be available on a particular date to attend
Court and for any reason his services are not
required under the following conditions :
(a) Where the Court
is held within five
miles of the doctor's centre of practice
and he is not given at least 24 houi\
notice that his services are not required
the fee payable shall be 25 per cent, of
the relevant Court fee above.
(b) Where
the Court
is held outside a
radius of five miles from the doctor's
centre of practice and he is not given a
minimum of four days notice that his
services are not required 50 per cent of
the relevant Court fee above.
6.
Consultation with Counsel on
day other
than day of High
Court case ........................... £ 7
7
0
Fees for consultation on which the doctor has
to
travel
from his home
town would be
negotiated individually in light of time spent
in travelling, etc.
7.
For attending examination with
defendant's medical
examiner
(if requested by the patient) ...
£ 5
5
0
In addition
to
the above fees, subsistence
and travelling expenses at first class rail rate
or I/- per mile by car, where applicable.
GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS
The following publications which may be of
interest
to members
are
available
from
the
Government Publications Sales Office, G.P.O.
Arcade, Dublin, 1—
Supreme Court and High Court (Fees) Order,
1966 (Cat. No. 62/66). Price 3/6d. Postage 3d
extra.
Circuit Court (Fees) (No. 2) Order, 1966 (Cat.
No. 142/66). Price 4d. Postage 3d extra.
Registration of Title Act, 1964 (Commencement)
Order,
1966
(Cat. No.
167/66). Price 4d.
Postage 3d extra.
Rules of the Superior Courts (No. 2), 1966 (Cat.
No. 169/66). Price 9d. Postage 3d extra.
Circuit Court Rules, 1966
(Cat. No. 128/66).
Price 6d. Postage 3d extra.
LIST OF STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS OF
1968
No.
26—Air Navigation
(Rules
of
the Air)
(Amendment) Order.
No.
27—Road Traffic
(Speed Limits)
(Co. of
Longford) Regulations.
No.
33—Conditions
of
Employment
(Nylon
Stockings
Industry)
(Exclusion) Re
gulations.
No.
34—Merchant Shipping
(Safety Conven
tion) (Countries of Acceptance) Order.
No.
36—Control of Exports Order.
No.
37—Foot and Mouth Disease (Restriction of
Sports and Sales) (No. 2) Order.
No.
38—Limerick Traffic and Parking Tem
porary Rules.
No.
39—Agricultural Wages (Minimum Rates)
Order, 1967 (Revocation) Order.
No.
40—Agricultural Wages (Minimum Rates)
Order.
No.
41—Conditions of Employment (Polypropy
lene Industry) (Exclusion) Regulations.
No.
42—Road Traffic (Speed Limits)" (Co. of
Laois) Regulations.
No.
43—Foot and Mouth Disease
(Merchant
Shipping) Order.
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