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Vol. 50
No. 7
JANUARY,
1957
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
NIALL S. GAFFNEY
Vice-Presidentt
DESMOND J. COLLINS
CHARLES J. DOWNING
Secrttary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT.
THE latest date for taking out practising certificates
in time will be Tuesday, February 5th. Attention
is drawn to the provisions of Part V of the Solicitors
Act, 1954, with regard to the issuing of practising
certificates and to Sections 54 to 57 with regard
to the qualifications for acting as solicitor and the
consequences of practising without a certificate. The
form of declaration which must be made in order to
obtain a practising certificate may be obtained by
Dublin solicitors, or by country solicitors through
their Dublin agents, on application to the Society's
office. Neither the declaration nor the certificate
when issued can be sent by post.
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
DECEMBER 6TH :
Mr. Shaw and afterwards Mr.
Gaffney in the Chair. Also present Messrs. James
R. Quirke, George A. Nolan, John Carrigan, R.
McD. Taylor, Joseph P. Tyrrell, George G. Overend,
W. J. Comerford, Francis J. Lanigan, John J. Shell,
Scan O'hUadhaigh, John B. Jermyn, Joseph Barrett,
Cornelius J. Daly, Arthur Cox, John R. Halpin,
Charles J. Downing, Patrick R. Boyd, Peter E.
O'Connell, Edmund Hayes, Niall S. Gaffney,
Henry St. J. Blake, Desmond J. Collins, Thomas
A. O'Reilly, F. X. Burke, Desmond Mayne, Ralph
J. Walker, J. F. Foley, Terence de Vere White,
John J. Nash, Patrick F. O'Reilly, C. E. Callan.
The following was among the business transacted-
Joint Committee with the Bar Council.
MESSRS. Thomas A. O'Reilly, Desmond J. Collins
and G. G. Overend were reappointed as the Society's
representatives.
Solicitors' Remuneration.
Item
charges
under schedule 2.
THE Council having considered a detailed report
from a committee decided that an application should
be made to the statutory costs fixing committee
under the Solicitors' Remuneration Act, 1881, for a
general Order prescribing a new method of charging
for business falling under Schedule 2 S.R.G.O.
1884 and the General Order in Chancery of 1859.
It is proposed to submit that the present system of
detailed charges should be replaced by a single
gross sum bill based on the following factors :