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for sale should not contain stipulations obliging
purchasers to pay approval fees had not been
observed in certain cases, and also complaints that
members had been required to pay a fee to the
Vendor’s solicitor for the Certificate under Section 6
o f the Finance Act, 1928. It was ordered that the
Secretary should send a circular to the Bar Associ
ations throughout the country asking them to see
that their members observe the recommendations
o f the Council already published.
Road Traffic Prosecutions
A
member
of the Society wrote referring to the
scale o f costs for defending Road Traffic Prose
cutions where the costs are payable by an Insurance
Company published in the Society’s
G
azette
for
November, 1949, and asking what is the appropriate
scale of costs where a number o f cases are defended
on the same day. The Secretary was directed to
reply stating that the same scale o f costs applies to
each case except where the same solicitor defends
a number o f summonses against the same defendant
arising out of the same facts on the same day, in
which case the normal fee for each summons after
the first is one guinea, and that in normal cases the
fee prescribed cover all correspondence and
attendances necessary for preparing the defence.
DUBLIN COUNTY COUNCIL
NOTICE TO PURCHASERS OF
NEW HOUSES AND TO THEIR
SOLICITORS
T
he
Dublin County Council cannot take over as
public roads or maintain private roads in the County
unless these private roads have been constructed
and maintained in accordance with the Council’s
standards and are provided with adequate lighting
facilities. The attention o f Purchasers of houses
on new estates,
and the particular attention of their
Solicitors
is therefore directed to the absolute neces
sity of ensuring before closing the Sale that the roads,
if not already in charge o f the Council, are, or at an
early date will be, completed to the required standard.
If, exceptionally, an Undertaking for completion to
standard has to be accepted to close an urgent Sale,
it is suggested that the Undertaking should be for
completion by a specified early date, that it should be
legally enforceable, and should, if necessary, be
acted on when the due date arrives.
Indemnities may
save Purchasers cost of road construction hut they will not
save them the hardship of having to enter and leave their
homes, possiblyforyears, over unmade and unligpted roads.
Close attention to this matter, and absolute insistence
by Solicitors on compliance with the appropriate
Requisition, will prevent much trouble and incon
venience to Purchasers and will safeguard them
against the risk of being obliged in accordance with
the Public Health Acts to bear the expense o f bring
ing the roads fronting their houses up to standard
preparatory to their being taken over and main
tained by the Council.
Purchasers should also ensure that the arrange
ments for maintenance and repair of drains, sewers,
and so forth, serving the houses are satisfactory.
Dated this 1st day o f December, 1950.
J. D. WILLIAMS,
1 1 Parnell Sq., Dublin.
Acting County Secretary.
PRESENTATION OF PARCHMENT
CERTIFICATES TO NEWLY
ADMITTED SOLICITORS
A
ceremony
for the formal presentation of parch
ment certificates to solicitors admitted during the
past six months was held in the Members’ Hall,
Solicitors’ Building, on Thursday, 23rd November,
1950. The ceremony was attended by the solicitors
to whom certificates and awards were presented,
and by their friends. The President, Mr. William
J. Norman, addressed the meeting as follows :—
“ Ladies and Gentlemen,
“ I am very pleased to be here to-day to introduce
a new function in the history o f our Society. The
Council have decided that a formal ceremony should
be held twice in each year in the Society’s Hall at
which the President, for the time being in office,
will present the parchment certificates o f admission
to solicitors who have been admitted by the Chief
Justice during the preceding six months after-
passing the Society’s examinations. The admission
of a young man or a young lady to be a member of
this profession is naturally a red-letter day in their
lives, and the Council feel that it should be marked
by a special ceremony at which they should be
welcomed into the profession by their colleagues
in the presence o f their relatives and friends.
“ I should first like to congratulate those of you
who have been admitted and to express the hope that
you will be successful in your professional careers,
and that you will do justice to this old and honoured
profession. I am a great believer in the value of
tradition. I think we all find as we go through life
and grow older that the things of real and abiding
value are the things which have stood the test of
time and the judgment o f men over the years.
Never forget that you have entered a profession
which is founded on traditions which have been
handed down through the centuries, and which
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