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3. Registered Owner, Patrick Flynn. Folio number
997. County Limerick. Lands of Clovers in the
Barony of Coshlea containing 793.
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THE REGISTRY
Register A
FOR SALE as a going concern a fully equipped and long
established Solicitor's practice, in a large provincial town
in Munster. Box. No. Azog.
Register C
MEMBER
requires up-to-date editions of the following:
Underbill, Torts : Nelsons Probate Practice: Browning &
Glover—Land Registry. Box No. Ciyy.
WILL any person having knowledge of the Will of Edward
McCrave, Dowdallshill, Dundalk, Co. Louth, who died 8th
January 1964 contact Daniel O'Connell & Son., Solicitors,
Dundalk.
LECTURES ON RECENT CHANGES IN
THE LAW
On December jth, Mr. Matthew Purcell, M.A.,
LL.B., Law Agent, Dublin County Council,
delivered a lecture for members in the Society's
library on the Town Planning Act.
On January 9th, Mr. Vincent Grogan, B.L.
delivered a lecture in the library on Tax Law dealing
particularly with income
tax and death duties.
Both lectures were well supported by the members.
The lectures were tape-recorded and will be available
to bar associations requiring them for a hiring
charge of £3 35. od.
SOCIETY'S PHOTOCOPYING SERVICE
Documents measuring
i^'xio"
will be copied
within twenty-four hours. Charge 9d. per sheet.
Larger documents will be copied
in sections.
Copies are on black on white. Coloured inks will
be reproduced in black.
Library
service
Photocopies of law reports may be obtained from
the library. Standard charges for this service are
as follows :—
•j
sheets or less, 2/6d.;
6 to 10 sheets, 3/6d.;
10 to 20 sheets, 7/6d.; over 20 sheets, io/-.
Law reports are copyrighted and photocopies are
issued on condition that they are for members, their
clients or counsel and that they will not be given
or lent to any other persons.
PROCEEDINGS AGAINST SOLICITORS
On 15th November, 1963, the President of the
High Court made an order on a report from the
Disclipinary Committee directing that Edward Daly
who practised at 151 Rathgar Road, be suspended
from practice until further order.
CO-OPERATION BETWEEN SOLICITORS
The Council some years ago produced a memo
randum which was circulated to a number of
Government Departments suggesting changes in
business methods with the object of enabling
solicitors to transact their clients' business more
efficiently. Among other suggestions it was pointed
out that the use of a standard foolscap size paper for
pleadings and other documents
filed
in Court
would facilitate the profession by enabling them to
have documents more easily filed and photocopied.
The Council wish to bring this suggestion again
before the members of the profession as in their
view there is no ground apart from historical
reasons for the multifarious types of paper used in
solicitors' offices. Indeed it is believed that solicitors
are gradually turning over to the use of foolscap
sized paper for all purposes including briefs.
The Estate Duty office has recently been asked to
revise the estate duty forms and in particular to
adopt the foolscap size for all forms where possible
in all cases where it is not already used.
In the leisurely Victorian period some unknown
practitioner thought of the idea which became a
general practice of sending a carbon copy of the
requisitions on title for the use of the vendor's
solicitor but the idea was never developed any
further.
The Waterford Law Society has recently suggested
that solicitors might, as a matter of professional
courtesy when writing letters to colleagues where
copies would normally be made by the recipient for
his client, send a carbon copy of each letter or other
document originating in the sender's office which
will be required for the client of the solicitor to
whom it is addressed.
It is easy to think of other practices which if
adopted by agreement by members of bar associations
would help to speed up business. Solicitors acting
for opposing clients in litigation might usefully
consider holding a business conference at the initial
stage of the proceedings to see how expense could
be
reduced.
Originating documents
such as
summonses, pleadings, etc., might be typed in
sufficient numbers for the originating and receiving
offices so that documents would not have to be
recopied for briefing, etc. Some offices use electric
typewriters which can produce a large number of
copies in one operation but even with a good
modern non-electric machine it should be possible
to produce six copies together.
It would take
a little time to translate these suggestions into
practice but the advantages to the profession and
their clients would be worth the effort.
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Printing Works, Dublin.