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Vol. 51
No. 4
August-September,
1957
THE GAZETT
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
PruiJtnt
NIALL S. GAFFNEY
Vict-PrtiidentJ
DESMOND J. COLLINS
CHARLES J. DOWNING
Stcrttary
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
JULY i8TH : The President in the Chair. Also present
Messrs. James R. Quirke, Louis Walsh, John J.
Nash, John R. Halpin, George G. Overend, Ralph
J. Walker, John Maher, Peter E. O'Connell, Reginald
J. Nolan, Francis X. Burke, Thomas A. O'Reilly,
Patrick R. Boyd, Christopher Gore-Grimes, Robert
v McD. Taylor, Joseph P. Tyrrell, George A. Nolan,
Dermot P. Shaw, Desmond J. Collins, John Carrigan
William J. V. Comerford, Derrick M. Martin,
Francis J. Lanigan, Scan O'hUadhaigh, Charles J.
Downing, John J. Sheil, Christopher E. Callan,
Terence de Vere White.
The following was among the business transacted :
Law Clerks Joint Labour Committee
MR. Ralph J. Walker was appointed as one of the
Society's representatives on the Committee in place
of Mr. Patrick F. O'Reilly.
Lessor's costs of consent to granting of
sub-lease.
MEMBERS asked for a direction from the Council as
to whether a lessee is liable to pay the costs of the
superior lessor of joining or concurring in a sub
lease where the agreement is silent as
to costs.
The Council having considered the analogous case
of a mortgagee consenting to a lease made by the
mortgagor and the available authorities decided
that the custom of the profession is that in the
absence of stipulation to the contrary the lessee
pays the lessor's costs of obtaining the consent or
concurrence of the superior lessor.
High Court on circuit
A letter from the secretary to the Chief Justice was
read stating that the Chief Justice and the President
of the High Court have determined that the High
Court will go on circuit in July 1957 but that the
half-yearly sittings for the High Court on circuit
for the year 1958 shall be held in the month of
March and October.
The arrangement will be
experimental and its continuance in future years will
depend on whether it is found satisfactory.
UNQUALIFIED PERSON PREPARING
LETTING AGREEMENT
MEMBERS reported to the Society the facts of a case
in which a house agent had prepared a letting
agreement of a furnished flat on behalf of the
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