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from the Organising Committee of the above

Association

to subscribe

to

the Association.

Application under Section 18

AN application

from

an

intending

apprentice

to the Chief Justice for total exemption from the

Preliminary Examination

of

the

Society was

considered.

It was ordered that the Chief Justice

be informed that the Council would not oppose

the granting of the application.

Applications under Section 47

ELEVEN applications from solicitors for

liberty

to take out practising certificates were considered

and granted on payment of the current licence

duty.

A number of matters were considered and referred

to Committees of the Council for reports.

JANUARY 5oth. The President in the chair :

Also

present: Mr. J. J. Bolder, Vice-President; Messrs.

Tyrrell, J. R. Quirke, D. O'Connell, P. F. O'Reilly,

T. A. O'Reilly, S. 6 hUadhaigh, J. T. Wolfe,

J. J. Smyth, W. J. Norman, H. P. Mayne, J. Barrett,

J. B. Hamill, A. Cox, Roger Greene, L. E. O'Dea,

J. S. O'Connor.

The President reported that accompanied by

Mr. Bolger, Vice-President, and the Secretary, he

had attended at Arus an Uachtarain to convey

the good wishes of the Council to the President

of Ireland. The President had asked him to convey

his good wishes to the Council.

Circuit Court Costs

THE Council considered a report from a special

Committee of the Council which had met to consider

draft new scales of Circuit Court costs which had

been before the Circuit Court Rules Committee.

The new scales of Circuit Court costs had been

prepared in 1938.

The Committee reported that

they were unanimously of the opinion that the

proposed new scales were

inadequate even

in

regard to the conditions existing in 1958.

They

recommended

that the existing scales of costs

in the Circuit Court Rules, 1952, be retained and

that an application should be made for an increase

of 33^ per cent, in the amount of the existing

scales. The report of the Committee was adopted.

Application

for

increase

in

solicitors'

remuneration

THE following resolution was proposed, seconded

and carried unanimously :

" That having regard

to the increase in the cost of living index figures

since

the date when the printed memorandum

from the Council to the Costs Committees was

prepared, the representatives of the Council on

these Committees should be instructed to infotm

the Committees that the Council .apply for an

increase in the existing scales of solicitors' remunera–

tion for all branches of solicitors' business of

3 3-1 per cent, on the existing levels of remuneration

in lieu of the minimum of 25 per cent, asked for

in the Council's memorandum."

Local Authorities and approval fees

The Council considered a report from a Com–

mittee on a query received from a solicitor who

acts for a County Council. He was employed on

a part-time basis at a fixed salary with the right to

carry on private practice, and provides an office

and staff at his own expense for the work of the

County Council.

He inquired whether, having

regard to the terms and conditions of his employ–

ment, he was entitled to charge an approval fee

for approving a release of a mortgage from the

County Council to a mortgagor. One of the terms

of his contract with the County Council was that

all costs and fees received should be handed over

to the County Council.

The Committee were of

.opinion that, having regard to the terms of the

retainer of the solicitor, the approval fee should

not be charged.

The report of the Committee

was adopted.

Motor Insurers' Bureau

THE Council considered a report from a Com–

mittee referring to a recent agreement which has

been entered into between the Insurance Companies

and the British Ministry of Transport under which

a Bureau

has been

set up by the

Insurance

Companies which will pay the amount of any

expense and costs awarded

to persons injured by

the

negligence of motorists, where

the drivers

are not covered by any insurance policy.

The

Insurance Companies

have undertaken

to

keep

the Bureau in funds for this purpose.

The Com–

mittee recommended that the Minister for Industry

and Commerce should be requested to enter into

negotiations with the Insurance Companies carry–

ing on business in Eire with a view to the establish–

ment of a similar scheme here.

The report of the

Committee was adopted and

it was ordered

that

the Secretary should communicate with the Minister

for

Justice and

the Minister for

Industry and

Commerce.

Apprentices' Applications

A

NUMBER

-

of applications from apprentices were

considered and dealt with.

Applications under Section 47

FIVE applications

from solicitors

for liberty

to

take out certificates were considered and granted

on payment of the current licence duty.

A number of matters were considered and referred

to Committees for reports.

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