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The following members were appointed to
represent the Association as Extraordinary members
of the Council o f the Incorporated Law Society, in
addition to the President, Mr. John J. Horgan
Messrs. Edmund Hayes, Barry M. O’Meara, John B.
Jermyn, Patrick J. Kavanagh.
DUBLIN SOLICITORS’ BAR
ASSOCIATION.
T
h e
following are the President and officers fo r
the year 1954-55: President, Cecil G. Vanston;
Vice-President, David R. P igo t; Hon. Secretary,
Eunan McCarron ; Hon. Treasurer, Rory O’Connor.
Council: Messrs. F. Connolly, J. Cullen, M.
Farrelly, R. Healy, J. N. Plughes, L. Kearon,
M. Leech, B. McGarry, S. Millington.
The Annual Dinner o f the Bar Association was
held by kind permission o f the Council in the
Library o f the Law Society on Saturday the n th
December, 1954.
There was an attendance of
approximately 140 members and guests.
The Council o f the Association has been com
pelled to raise the members subscription for the
current year to
£1.
PRESENTATION OF CERTIFI
CATES OF ADMISSION.
O
n
25 th November, the President at a ceremony in
the Society’s Library presented certificates of
admission to the following solicitors :—
John K . Boland, Mitchelstown, Co. Cork;
Patrick J. Cody, Bagenalstown, Co. Carlow;
Esmond Davies,
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.A ., LL .B ., Ingoldsby, Crosth-
waite Park S. Dun Laoghaire; Alec Diamond, 174
Stillorgan Road, Ballsbridge, Dublin; James D.
Donegan, “ Fastnet,” Ballinlough, Co. Co rk ;
Charles W. R. Fay, 13 Thomas Ashe Street, Cavan ;
John A . Gaynor,
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.A ., St. Flelier’s, Stillorgan Park,
Blackrock, Co. Dublin (2nd Place September Final,
Special Cert.); Denis H. Johnston, B .A ., LL.B .
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Sandycove Road, Dun Laoghaire; John B.
Kirby B .A ., LL .B ., 32 Frascati Park, Blackrock, Co.
Dublin; James Maguire, 55 Clontarf Park, Vernon
Avenue, Co. Dublin; Mary E. Reihill, B.A ., Deep-
well, Blackrock, Co. Dublin (1st Place April Final,
Special Cert.); Francis T. D. Sweeney, 6 New
Brighton, Monkstown, Co. Dublin ; Patrick Smyth,
Mill Street, Monaghan; Dominic B. A . Spelman,
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St. Anne’s Road, Drumcondra, Dublin; Ray
mond M. Walker, B.A ., LL .B ., 14 Leeson Park,
Dublin; John Baily, Ballyard, Tralee, Co. K erry;
Ignatius F. Branigan, Battery Road, Longford;
Kieran T. Flynn, St. Michael Street, Tipperary
(2nd Place April Final, Special Cert.).
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
25TH N
o v em b e r
The President in the Chair.
Also p r e s e n tM e s s r s . John J. Nash and John R.
Halpin, Vice-Presidents; William J. Norman, John
Maher, Dermot P. Shaw, Terence de Vere White,
Francis J. Lanigan, John J. Sheil, Cornelius J. Daly’
John F. Foley, Desmond J. Mayne, Niall S. Gaffney,
George G. Overend, John Carrigan, Arthur Cox,
Henry St. J. Blake, James J. O’Connor, Ralph J.
Walker, Patrick R. Boyd, Louis E . O’Dea, Francis
X . Burke, Sean O hUadhaigh, Peter E. O’Connell,
John B. Jermyn, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Patrick F.
O’Reilly.
The following was among the business transacted :
Solicitors’ B ill, 19 5 4 .
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h e
Council received a deputation from the Dublin
Solicitors’ Bar Association and the State Depart
ments’ Solicitors’ Association which submitted
recommendations in regard to a number o f sections
in the Bill. The Council adopted a number of these
recommendations and undertook to submit them to
the Government with a view to having the Bill
amended on the Committee Stage.
Housing o f the Working Classes Acts.
Conveyance by statutory receipt. Costs.
T
h e
Secretary read the following questions
su b
mitted to counsel by direction o f the Council with
counsel’s opinion thereon :—-
(a)
Will a solicitor acting for a local authority
acquiring land for the purpose o f the Housing
of the Working Classes Acts be entitled to
charge the commission scale fee wherp the
land is acquired by voluntary agreement, the
assurance being effected by statutory receipt ?
The same question was submitted as regards
the costs of the solicitor acting for the owner.
Counsel advised that no question o f the
assurance being effected by a statutory receipt
can arise in the case o f an acquisition by agree
ment and that under the provisions o f section
32 o f the Housing (Amendment) Act, 1948,
the Land Registration Rules, and the Solici
tors’ Remuneration General Orders, the
solicitors for the owner and tne purchaser are
entitled to the commission scale fee.
(b)
Will the solicitor acting for a local authority
acquiring land for the purpose o f the said
Acts compulsorily without any agreement be
entitled to charge the commission scale fee
where the assurance is effected by way of
statutory receipt? The same question was
submitted as regards the costs of the solicitor
acting for the owner.
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