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Vol.
No.
45
2
June,
1951
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND
President
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
R
oger
G
reen e
N
ia ll
S. G
affn ey
E
ric
A . P
lunkett
F
rancis
J. G
earty
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
M
ay
29TH.
A special meeting o f the Council
'was held to consider a report from a Committee
on a suggested application for an increase in the
scales of solicitors’ item charges under the Solicitors’
Remuneration General Orders 1884-1947, and
for other amendments to the Orders. In the absence
of the President and Vice-Presidents, Mr. William
j. Norman took the Chair. Also present: Messrs.
Sean
0
hUadhaigh, James J. O’Connor, Arthur
Cox, Patrick R. Boyd, John J. Sheil, Thomas A.
O’Reilly, William S. Huggard, John Carrigan,
Dermot P. Shaw, Desmond Mayne, Edmund
Hayes, Daniel O’Connell.
The following decisions were reached : (i) An
application should be made to the Committee
appointed under Section 2 of the Solicitors’
Remuneration Act, 1881, consisting of the Chief
Justice, the President of the High Court, the Senior-
Ordinary Judge of the Supreme Court and the
President of the Incorporated Law Society of
Ireland, for an order increasing the scale fees for
item charges under the bid system as modified
by Schedule 2 by 75 per cent, on the fees charged
in 1939, in substitution for the increases granted
in 1947. The last mentioned increases were 25 per
cent, in respect of letters and attendances, and
i6§ per cent, in respect of other work, calculated
in both cases on the fees charged in 1939; (ii)
Having regard to the majority decision o f the
Supreme Court (O’Byrne and Lavery, J J ., dis
senting), in the case of Lanigan
v.
Carlow Mental
Board, the Committee should be asked to rescind
Rule 1 1 , part 1, Schedule 1, of the Solicitors’ Re
muneration General Order, 1884, which provides
that the commission scale does not apply in the
case of sales under the Land Clauses Consolidation
Acts or other Acts incorporating the same ; (iii) The
Committee should be asked to amend the first
commission scale in Part 2, Schedule 1, Solicitors’
Remuneration General Order, 1884, as amended,
which prescribes the charges for leases and
agreements for leases at a rack rent, by providing
that where the rent exceeds £100 per annum the
commission is to be paid as a percentage on the