68 / 822
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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