THE INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
GAZETTE
JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1976
VOL. 70 NO. 1
National Prices Commission Inquiry into Solicitors' Remuneration
At its meeting on 26th February, 1976, the Council of the Society considered the letter from the Prices Com-
mission Consultant, Professor D. Lees, University of Nottingham, in which he sought the co-operation of the
Profession in the compilation of certain further statistical information on solicitors' receipts and expenditure.
(The recent newsletter carried a copy of this letter.) The Council urged those firms which are consulted by
Professor Lees to supply him with as much of the desired information as is available. So that the Society will
be completely au fait with analysis of all the material furnished to Professor Lees, the Council asks that a copy
of whatever information is furnished should be forwarded at the same time to the Society's auditors, Messrs.
Coopers & Lybrand, Fitzwilton House, Wilton Place, Dublin 2. In due course that firm will process the information
and furnish the Society with whatever conclusions emerge.
PRESIDENT
Patrick C. Moore
Vice Presidents
Bruce St. J. Blake
Gerald Hickey
Director General
James J. Ivers,
M.Econ.Sc., M.B.A.
Librarian & Editor of the Gazette
Colum Gavan Duffy, M.A., LL.B. (N.U.I.)
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The Editor welcomes articles, letters and
other contributions for publication in the
Gazette.
Land Registry
PROFESSIONAL INDEMNITY
INSURANCE
AND
COMPREHENSIVE OFFICE
INSURANCE
Available at low cost direct from the
London Market to Members of the
Law Society.
Proposal forms for onward submis-
sion by your practice direct to Lon-
don are available at the Society's
offices.
THE third in a series of meetings
being held periodically between the
Department
of
Justice
and
the
Society to discuss Land Registry
matters was held on 5th February,
1976. The following is a summary of
the matters agreed
or
requiring
attention:-
(a) Arranging of priority for First
Registration of house purchase
cases;
(b) Clarification
of
the
Land
Registry position about solicitors'
and counsel's certificates under
the Land
Registration
Rules;
Mr. Griffith promised to let Mr.
Ivers have a note about this for
publication in the GAZETTE.
(This appears on page 22)
(c) Deferment until 1st September
1976 of the Land
Registry's
insistence on the lodgment of
Ordnance
Survey
maps
with
applications
for transfers
of
part;
(d) In the meantime, a meeting
would
be
sought
with
the
Ordnance
Survey
Office
(at
which the Law Society and the
Department of Justice would be
represented) to follow up the
question of the service which
will
be
needed
from
the
Ordnance Survey Office by 1st
September 1976 in connection
with (c)—the meeting to be
arranged by the Department of
Justice;
(e) The County and City Managers
Association to be informed—by
the Registrar — of the Land
Registry's requirements insofar
as the lodgement of Ordnance
Survey maps is concerned [(c)
above];
(f) Delays (e.g. in processing deal-
ings) would be kept as consistent
as
possible
throughout
the
country i.e. there would not be
inordinate delays in any one
area;
(g) Any criticisms (e.g. where in-
ordinate delays occurred in any
one area) would be transmitted
to the Registrar periodically;
(h) Where
warranted,
an
effort
would be made to improve the
presentation of applications by
solicitors;
(i) All the staff and documents
dealing with Co. Dublin registra-
tions would be housed in one
building if possible;
(j) It would be inappropriate for the
Land Registry to be involved in
the setting up of a panel of
architects and engineers who
would prepare and certify maps
in subdivision cases;
(k) Consideration of having dupli-
cates of maps made available at
local offices would be deferred
until the reconstruction of maps
in the central office is completed;
(1) The
possibility
of
accepting
documents
by
post
in
the
Registry of Deeds would be
considered by the Registrar; and
(m) A further meeting would be held
towards the end of October
1976, if possible.