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Vol. 51
No. 2
JUNE,
1957
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
NIALL S. GAFFNEY
Vice-frtsidenti
DESMOND J. COLLINS
CHARLES J. DOWNING
StcTitary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT—TURN TO PAGE 21
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
MAY 30TH: The President in the Chair.
Also
present John R. Halpin, D. J. Mayne, C. E. Callan,
Joseph P. Tyrrell, Ralph J. Walker, Patrick R.
Boyd, Peter D. O'Connell, Francis J. Lanigan,
John Carrigan, Desmond J. Collins, Charles J.
Downing, W. J. Comerford, John Maher, John
J. Shell, Dermot P. Shaw, George G. Overend,
F. X. Burke, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Terence de Vere
White, Arthur Cox, James R. Quirke, George A.
Nolan.
The following was among the business transacted.
Costs of debt collection work.
A COMMITTEE to which this matter had been re
ferred reported that having consulted a number of
solicitors to carry on debt collection work they
had come to the conclusion that it would be im
possible to frame a satisfactory scale of costs for
non-contentious business. It was recommended that
no action be taken other than publishing in the
Gazette
a statement of the ruling recently given
(Gazette
February, 1957 page 68) that a solicitor
should not accept from a client costs lower than
the statutory party and party costs for contentious
debt collection work.
The report was adopted.
Circuit Court. Travelling expenses.
THE Committee considered a report from a Com
mittee on a suggestion by a Bar Association that
the Society should approach
the Circuit Court
Rules Committee requesting them to make a new
rule providing for
the allowance of travelling
expenses as between party and party in addition
to the statutory costs. The Committee stated that
they were informed that in some circuits the County
Registrar will allow travelling expenses as between
party and party in cases in which the costs are
taxed on the scale in the High Court less one fifth,
by analogy with the practice under the High Court
Rules 1926 appendix II item 194 but that this
practice is not followed everywhere.
The Com
mittee stated that in their opinion the matter was
suitable for representations by Bar Associations
if advised to the County Registrar or if necessary