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International Sales o f Goods
T
he
Council considered a report on a draft uniform
law for international sales o f goods sent to the
Society for observations by the Department of
External Affairs. It was ordered that the draft
report should be approved and sent to the Depart
ment, and that the Secretary in writing should say
that the Council approve in principle of the proposal
of a draft uniform law.
Delays in the Probate Office
T
he
Council considered a report from a Committee
on the subject o f the delays in issuing grants of
probate and letters of administration. The report
stated that there is considerable cause for
complaint on account o f the unsatisfactory method
o f producing sealed and certified copies of grants of
probate and letters of administration for the purpose
o f obtaining grants in England. It was ordered
that the President and. the Secretary should seek
an interview with the Minister for Justice in order
to obtain an improvement in the position.
O
ctober
25TH.
The President in the Chair. Also
present: Messrs. Niall S. Gaffney, Vice-President;
John Carrigan, William J. Norman, Henry St. J.
Blake, John R. Halpin, Thomas A. O’Reilly,
James R. Quirke, Daniel O’Connell, John J.
Dundon, Maurice M. Power, Sean O hUadhaigh,
Louis E. O’Dea, Arthur Cox, Reginald J. Nolan,
Dermot P. Shaw, Desmond Mayne, Derrick M.
Martin, Joseph Barrett, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Desmond
R. Counahan, Gerald J . O’Donnell, Ralph J.
Walker, James J. O’Connor, Patrick F. O’Reilly,
Patrick R. Boyd, John J. Sheil.
The following was among the business
(ransacted :—
Unauthorised Practice by Unqualified Person
T
he
Council considered a report from a Committee
o.n a case in which the owner of a cottage held
under the Labourers Act, 1936, agreed to sell his
interest for a sum of £45. An agreement between
the parties, which purported to operate as a con
veyance o f the vendor’s interest, was prepared by
an’ auctioneer, who received the sum of 10/- for
his services. At the time when the agreement was
signed the vendor was under notice to quit, and the
purchaser after entering into the agreement was
ejected. It was ordered that the Secretary should
institute proceedings against the unqualified person
for the penalty prescribed by the Conveyancers
(Ireland) Act, 1864.
Entries in Foreign Law Directories
The Secretary was directed to write to solicitors
whose entries in the English and Scottish and other
law directories contravene the recent recommenda
tion of the Council on the subject matter to be
included in such entries.
Formation o f Limited Companies by
Accountants
T
he
Secretary stated that representations had been
made to the Institute o f Chartered Accountants,
the Society of Incorporated Accountants, the
Association o f Certified and Corporate Accountants,
and the Association of Practising and Commercial
Accountants, on the subject of the preparation of
memoranda and articles of association and the forma
tion of limited companies, and that satisfactory
replies had been received from the Society of
Incorporated Accountants and the Association of
Certified and Corporate Accountants. The matter
is still under consideration by the Council of the
Institute o f Chartered Accountants.
SOLICITORS’ NOTEPAPER
T
he
Council wish to publish the following recom
mendations for the guidance of the profession on
the subject of the propriety or otherwise of using
certain words and descriptive matter on solicitors
office newspaper :
(1) Where a solicitor engaged in private practice
acts also for the State, or as solicitor for a
public body such as a local authority, there is
no objection to a statement that he so acts
on his office notepaper used exclusively for
the business o f the State or the public body
concerned. Such a statement is normally in
the form of a caption such as “ State So'ici-
tor,” “ Solicitor for Minors,” “ County
Solicitor,” or “ Solicitor for the X County
Council.”
(2) It is not in accordance with professional
etiquette that the names of clients for whom a
solicitor acts should be printed on notepaper
used for correspondence not on their business.
Consequently captions of which those men
tioned above are examples should not be
printed on correspondence written for other
clients. Examples of other captions to which
the rule applies are the words, “ Coroner for
County X ,” or a statement that the solicitor
acts for bodies such as the Automobile Associa
tion, the N.S.P.C.C. or an insurance company.
These are merely examples of the kind of
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