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Vol. 49
No. 10
APRIL,
1956
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
PrttidiHt
DERMOT P. SHAW
Vice-Pretidentt
RALPH J. WALKER
GEORGE G. OVEREND
Secrttarj
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETING OF THE COUNCIL.
MARCH ZZND : The President in the Chair. Also
present Messrs. George G. Overend, Ralph J.
Walker, Vice-Presidents, Francis
J. Lanigan,
James R. Quirke, John R. Halpin, Derrick M.
Martin, Niall Gaffhey, James J. O'Connor, Joseph
P. Tyrrell, Peter E. O'Connell, William J. Norman,
C. E. Callan, P. R. Boyd, John J. Nash, Joseph
Barrett, Reginald Nolan, R. McD. Taylor, Thomas
A. O'Reilly, Cornelius J. Daly, Patrick F. O'Reilly,
Desmond J. Collins, Desmond J. Mayne, John
Carrigan, John B. Jermyn.
The following was among the business transacted:
Statute of Limitations Bill, 1955.
THE Council considered a report from a committee
stating that the Bill had been
examined by the
Society's examiners and lecturers who had sent in
reports which had been forwarded to the Depart
ment of Justice.
Solicitors and Auctioneers.
A COMMITTEE
reported that representations had
been received from a bar association about alleged
interference by auctioneers between solicitor and
client with the object of diverting or directing
clients to particular solicitors. By direction of the
Committee the Secretary had sent a circular to the
bar associations asking for their observations.
Change of Solicitors.
PROVISION for costs of former solicitor.
The
Council adopted a report from a Committee stating
that there is no general or universal rule whereby
a solicitor should not act for a client in business
where the client has been represented by another
solicitor unless provision is made by the client
for payment of the other solicitors' costs.
ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING.
AN ordinary general meeting of the Society will
be held in the Library, Solicitors' Buildings, Four
Courts, Dublin, on Thursday, loth May, 1956,
at 2.30 o'clock.
CALENDAR AND LAW
DIRECTORY, 1956.
THE Calendar is on sale at the Society's office.
Price io/-, post free zo/iod.