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Vol. 47
No. 4
August,
1953
THE GAZETTE
o f the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
J
ames
R Q
uirks
Vice-Presidents
J
ohn
C
arrigan
J
ames
J . O ’C
onnor
Secretary
E
ric
A . P
lunkett
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
J
uly
23rd. 1953. The President in the Chair.
Also present, Messrs John Carrigan and James J.
O’Connor Vice-Presidents, Francis J. Gearty, Patrick
R. Boyd, John J. Sheil, William J. Norman, Ralph
J. Walker, Derrick M. Martin, John R. Halpin,
John Maher, Thomas A. O’Reilly, Cornelius J.
Daly, Peter E. O ’Connell, Arthur Cox, Louis E.
O’Dea, George G. Overend, Gerald J. O’Donnell,
Sean O hUadhaigh, Reginald J. Nolan, Joseph P.
**" Tyrell, Desmond J. Collins, Patrick F. O’Reilly,
and Desmond J. Mayne. The following was among
the business transacted :—
Sale o f Premises with effects. Negotiation.
A.B. agreed to purchase a dwelling house and
household effects for the sum o f £700, from CD.
It was part o f the arrangement that AB would pay
CD’s costs. A B ’s solicitor received a draft con
tract in which the price o f the premises was shown
at £640 and the price o f the effects £60. AB ’s
solicitors made certain amendments in the draft
contract which after discussion were withdrawn
and agreed the vendor’s costs at £23. 18 9. AB
signed the contract after it had been explained by
his solicitor. The Revenue Commissioners agreed
to accept £600 as the value of the house, the effects
passing by delivery, and the consideration in the
Deed o f Assignment of the house was accordingly
shown as £600. A dispute arose concerning the
amount of costs o f the solicitors for the purchaser,
AB, AB maintaining that the costs should be cal
culated on £600 and reduced by the amount o f the
negotiation fee. On a submission to arbitration
the Council held that the full scale fee without any
deduction was chargeable on the consideration o f
£600.
Department o f External Affairs.
T
he
C
ouncil
considered a report from a Committee
on a complaint by a member that a beneficiary in
an American Estate had been approached by a
member o f the Garda Siochana who obtained
certain information and that, apparently as the
result of the intervention of the Gatdai, the bene
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