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Vol. 48
No. 7
January,
1955
THE GAZETTE
o f the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
T
homas
A.
O ’R
eilly
Vice-Presidents
D
esmond
J.
M
ayne
J
ohn
J.
S
h eil
Secretary
E
ric
A. P
lunkett
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
IMPORTANT.
T
h e
latest date for taking out practising certificates
in time will be 5th February, 1955. Attention is
drawn to the provisions of Part V of the Solicitors
Act, 1954, with regard to the issuing of practising
certificates, and to sections 54 to 57 with regard
to the qualifications for acting as solicitor and the
consequences of practising without a certificate. The
form o f declaration which must be made in order to
obtain a practising certificate may be taken up by
Dublin solicitors, or by country solicitors by their
town agents, on application to the Society’s office.
Neither the declaration nor the certificate when
issued can be sent by post.
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
D
ecember
9TH
: Mr. Barrett and afterwards Mr>
Thomas A. O’Reilly in the Chair. Also present:
Messrs. John J. Nash, and John R. Halpin, Vice-
Presidents ; Arthur Cox, William J. Norman, James
J. O’Connor, Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond J. Mayne,
John Maher, Peter E. O’Connell, Henry St. J.
Blake, John Carrigan, George G. Overend, Desmond
J. Collins, John J. Sheil, Terence de V. White,
Charles J. Downing, Ralph J. Walker, Joseph P.
Tyrrell, Patrick F. O’Reilly.
The following was among the business transacted :
Arbitration Bill, 1954.
T
h e
Secretary reported that representations had
been made to the Department of Justice suggesting
that section 29 (1) of the Bill should be amended
so as to give an arbitrator jurisdiction to award
costs as between solicitor and own client, i.e., on
the basis o f a full indemnity, in proper cases, but
that the Department had replied stating that the
Minister could not agree to this suggestion.
Expenses o f Solicitor-witness.
A
member
acted for the settlor in a deed of settle
ment some years ago. The settlor subsequently
became a bankrupt and member received a subpoena
duces tecum
to give evidence before the bankruptcy
judge in Dublin, in proceedings on behalf of the
official assignee to set aside the deed. Member
claimed expenses as an expert witness and raised
the matter before the bankruptcy judge. The judge
ruled that he was not an expert witness and that the
only allowances payable were first class railway