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20 The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. |JULY, 1918
increased in respect of all business done on
or after the jth day of May, 1918, by the
addition thereto of an amount equal to
twenty-five per cent, of the amount of such
prescribed fees and costs, and that (2) all
Solicitors' fees and costs payable in pro–
ceedings under the " Land Purchase Acts,"
as prescribed by Order XXI. of the Rules of
the Irish Land Commission, dated the 2nd
day of July, 1910, shall be increased in respect
of business done on or after the 7th day of
May, 1918, by the addition thereto of an
amount equal to twenty per cent, of the
amount of such prescribed fees and costs,
such increases to be in force during the
continuance of the present war and for a
period of six months thereafter.
Solicitors' Remuneration.
THE Council, in consultation with the Taxing
Masters, have arranged that
(1) Party and party costs, and costs payable
under orders, will be accepted for taxa–
tion with an additional item at the end
of the bill claiming the amount of the
increased remuneration on the profes–
sional charges ; and that
(2) In the case of costs taxable under
requisitions, including ordinary Solicitor
and client bills, each item of the pro–
fessional charges should be separately
increased by the amount of the
authorised increase.
Index to War Orders and Proclamations.
THE " Solicitors' Journal and Weekly
Reporter " publishes from time to time an
Index to War Orders and Proclamations,
giving the title of the Order or Proclamation
and the page in the journal on which each
Order or Proclamation is to be found. The
most recent index, covering the'period from
October 2Oth, 1917, to June*ist, 1918, is to
be found in the issue of June 8th.
Recent Decisions Affecting Solicitors.
(Notes of Decisions, whether in reported or
unreported cases, of interest to Solicitors, are
invited from Members?)
COURT OF APPEAL (ENGLAND).
(Before Pickford, War n and
Scrutton, .)
JONES AND SON v WHITEHOUSE.
April I5th, i6th, 1918. Solicitor—Costs—
Action on bill—Bill delivered more than twelve
months before action—Application for judg
ment under Order XIV.—Leave to defend.—
Objection to a few items—Right to taxation.
The plaintiffs, by a specially endorsed writ,
sought to recover some £64, the amount of a
bill of costs. The signed bill of costs was
delivered to the defendant on November
27th, 1916, and the writ was issued on
February I3th, 1918, no application to tax
the bill having then been made. The
plaintiffs applied under Order XIV. for leave
to sign final judgment for the amount of the
bill. Before the Registrar the defendant's
Solicitor asked that the bill should be referred
for taxation. The Registrar refused, and gave
leave to sign judgment. Before the Judge in
Chambers the defendant made an affidavit,
in which he alleged that the charges were
excessive and unreasonable, and in particular
he objected to three items of ten guineas or
under. The Judge dismissed the appeal.
The defendant appealed. There was an
absence of special circumstances entitling the
defendant to taxation under Sec. 37 of the
Solicitors Act, 1843 (6 and 7 Vie., c. 73),
to which Sec. 2 of the Attornies and Solicitors
(Ireland) Act, 1849 (12 and 13 Vie., c. 53)
corresponds.
Their Lordships dismissed the appeal.
They held that the items objected to were in
fact reasonable in amount. If the appellant
had shown a reasonable ground of objection
to a few of the items of the bill, the Court
would have given him leave to defend as to
those items, but the appellant would not have
been entitled to taxation of the whole bill.
(Reported The Law Journal, Vol. LIII.,
p. 156).