The Gazette 1967/71

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A THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY
OF
IRELAND
Vice-Presidents:
BRENDAN A. MCGRATH
THOMAS V. O'CONNOR
President: JAMES R. C. GREEN
Secretary:
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
Editor: COLUM GAVAN DUFFY
Assistant Secretaries:
JOSEPH FINNEGAN
MARTIN P. HEALY
Opinions and comments in contributed
articles and reviews in the Gazette are not
published as the views of the Council unless
expressly so described.
CONTENTS
Ordinary General Meeting .................. 1
Meetings of Council ........................... 5
Current Law Selected ........................ 1
Book Review—Ryan, Notes of Irish Cases 6
Agency Contracts .............................. 9
A rticle on Solicitors Charges and
Incomes by Mr. B. McGrath ......... 11
"Which" on Conveyancing .................. 13
Solicitors Apprentices Debating Society 13
Solicitors Costs and Inflation—
Discounted Cash Flow ............... 14
N.I.B.C. Policy for all Incomes ......... 15
Fusion—Report from the Council to the
Committee on Court Practice and
Procedure ................................. 21
Bank Strike Notice ........................... 18
Criminal Legal Aid Scheme ............... 19
Society's Group Insurance Scheme ...... 19
Building Estate—Advance Certificate
as to Title ................................. 19
Reference Numbers on Letters ............ 21
Correspondence ................................. 23
Registration of Title—Missing Land
Certificates ................................. 24
Land Registry Office Notice ............... 24
Handbook of Commissioners for Oaths 25
The Registry .................................... 25
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING
An Ordinary General Meeting was held in The
Library, Solicitors Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, on
Thursday, 14th May, 1970. The President took the chair
at 2.30 p.m.
The notice convening the meeting was by permission
taken as read. The Secretary read the minutes of the
Annual General Meeting held on 20th November. 1969
which were confirmed and signed by the President.'
The following members of the Society were
unanimously appointed as the scrutineers of the ballot
for the election of the Council for the year 1970/71—
Messrs. Alexander J. McDonald, Thomas Jackson,
Brendan P. McCormick, Roderick J. Tierney,
Laurence J. Branigan.
The President then addressed the meeting as follows:—
Ladies and Gentlemen,
It is my duty and privilege in accordance with custom
to tell you something about the work of the Council
during the five months or so since our election and
about any general development affecting the Society
and profession. The day after my predecessor addressed
you last November the Minister introduced the estimate
for the Department of Justice in Dail Eireann. He spoke
in particular about the Department's long term
programme of Law Reform. This programme is of
course of vital interest to us and I want to say again
what I have already said publicly that we appreciate
very much the opportunities which we now often get
to comment on the Minister's proposals for legislation
and make our own proposals. There have in the past
been instances of legislation being introduced which
vitally affected our profession and had not been
considered at all from the point of view of the practical
lawyer. We are particularly interested in the proposals
in regard to the jurisdiction of the District and Circuit
Courts and we support the Minister's suggestion that
Solicitors should be entitled to be appointed to the
Circuit Court Bench.
have submitted to the Committee on Court
'ro r-i'l Procedure the Council's views on voluntary