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Vol. 38
No.
IO
April
1945
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
PrrjiJent:
PATRICK F. O'REILLY
WILLIAMS. HUGGARD
HUGH p. O'DONNELL
Secretary
.'
ERIC
A.
PLONKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
23rd March, 1945. The President in the chair : Also
present: Messrs. J. J. Smyth, P. R. Boyd, J.
Travers Wolfe, Roger Greene, G. A. Overend,
J. R. Quirke, W. S. Hayes, W. J. Norman,
Daniel O'Connell, W. L. Duggan, J. P. Carrigan,
C. G. Stapleton, S. 6 hUadhaigh, F. J. W. Barley,
J. Gillespie, J. B. Hamill, A. Cox, L. E. O'Dea,
H. St. J. Blake, E. M. FitzGerald, J. J. Bolger,
H. P. Mayne, J. S. O'Connor, J. J. Dunne.
Department of External Affairs and Foreign
Estates.
ON a report from a Committee it was ordered that
the Secretary should write to the Department of
External Affairs stating that the attention of the
Council has been called to the fact that the
Department undertakes the work of collecting
and transmitting to this country the shares of
Irish citizens in estates of persons who die domi
ciled
in America and other foreign countries
and that it is considered that this practice is an
infringement of the established rights of the
solicitors' profession, particularly having regard
to the fact that the Department have, in a number
of cases, written to the next-of-kin and offered
to undertake the work for them on a commission
basis. It was also ordered that the Department
should be requested to receive a Deputation from
the Council in connection with the matter.
Unqualified Person.
THE Secretary reported that he had submitted
a case to Counsel for his opinion as to whether an
unqualified person resident in Co. Cork had ren
dered himself liable to proceedings for penalties
in respect of an application which he had made
to the Central Office of the Land Registry for the
registration of a transfer of registered land, and
that Counsel had advised that proceedings should
be instituted in the name of the Secretary under
Section 53 of the Solicitors' (Ireland) Act, 1898,
and Section 44 of the Stamp Act, 1891. It was
ordered that proceedings should be instituted as
advised by Counsel and that solicitors and Counsel
should be retained by the Secretary for that
purpose.