Vol. 41
No. 3
July,
1947
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President :
n. ST. j. BLAKE
Wce-Presidents :
•WILLIAM L. DUGGAN
JOHN J. BOLGER
Secretary :
ERIC A. PLUNKETT
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
JUNE 13th. Mr. W. L. Dug'gan, Vice-President in the
chair: Also present: Messrs. J. P. Tyrrell, W. J.
Norman, P. R. Boyd, T. A. O'Reilly, J. P. Carrigan,
H. P. Mayne, D. O'Connell, J, J. Lynch, J. R.
Quirke, J. Barrett, W. S. Hayes, G. A. Overend,
H. O'Donnell, J. J. Bolger, R. Greene, A. Cox,
R. J. Nolan, Scan O hUadhaigh, P. F. O'Reilly,
J. Travers Wolfe.
Land Registry—Issue of new Land Certifi
cates
ON a report from a Committee, it was ordered that
the Secretary should write to the Registrar of Titles
suggesting that before a duplicate Land Certificate
is issued an advertisement should be inserted in the
Society's Gazette and in the newspapers of the
application for a new certificate, that a notice
should be sent to any solicitor who appears from
the documents in the Registry to have dealt with
the certificate, and that the applicant for the duplicate
certificate should be required to give an adequate
indemnity to protect any person who may be pre–
judiced by the issue of a new certificate.
The
object of the Council in making this regulation was
to protect any solicitor who might hold a lien for
costs over the Land Certificate alleged to have been
lost.
Applications under Sections 16 and 18
Two applications from law clerks under Section
16 for liberty to be bound for terms of three years
only were considered by the Council and granted
on a report from the Court of Examiners.
Applications from the same law clerks, to the
Chief Justice, under Section 18, for exemption from
the Preliminary Examination were considered, and
on a report from the Court of Examiners it was
decided to offer no opposition to the granting of
the applications.
Coroners' Salaries
THE following resolution was proposed, seconded
and unanimously adopted :
" The attention of the
Council having been called to the utterly inadequate
scale of salaries at present payable to Coroners in
Eire, all of whom are either solicitors or doctors who>