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Vol.

40

No.

9

March,

1947

THE GAZETTE

of the

INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President :

H. ST. J. BLAKE

Pice-Presidents :

WILLIAM L. DUGGAN

JOHN J. BOLGER

Secretary :

ERIC A.

PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL

FEBRUARY zist. The President in the chair : Also

present: Mr. John J. Bolger, Vice-President;

Messrs. W. J. Norman, J. P. Tyrrell, J. R. Quirke,

J. Barrett, D. O'Connell, H. P. Mayne, P. R. Boyd,

J. B. Hamill, R. J. Nolan, A. Cox, J. J. Smyth,

D. P. Shaw, S. 6 hUadhaigh, J. S. O'Connor,

L. E. O'Dea, P. F. O'Reilly.

The following was among the business transacted :

Costs Query

THE Council considered a report from a Committee

on a query as to the proper scale of costs chargeable

by a solicitor acting for the purchaser of lands

which had been offered for sale by public auction

under conditions in which the land was disclosed

as unregistered land. The property was not sold at

the auction but was sold some months later by private

treaty under the same conditions. Title was shown

and investigated and searches were made and a deed

of conveyance prepared, approved and engrossed.

It then transpired that the lands had been registered

under the Registration of Title Act, 1891, between

the date of the auction and the signing of the con–

ditions of sale, unknown to the purchaser's solicitor.

A new transfer was prepared and the sale was com–

pleted and the dealing registered on the folio. At

the request of the purchaser equities were not dis–

charged. In the opinion of the Committee the costs

should be charged under the Land Registration

Rules, 1937, and the appropriate scale was two-thirds

of the scale under the Solicitors Remuneration

Act, 1881, in addition to outlay. The report of the

Committee was approved.

Solicitors' Remuneration

THE President reported that the Superior Courts

Rules Committee had made an order increasing

solicitors' remuneration in the High Court and

Supreme Court by 25 per cent, in respect of business

transacted on or after 24th February, 1947. A copy

of the Order is printed in this issue.

The President also reported that the Committee

under Section 2 of the Solicitors Remuneration

Act, 1881, had met on two occasions to deal with the

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