259 / 266
Vol. 48
No. 10
April,
1955
THE GAZETTE
o f the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
T
homas
A.
O’R
eilly
Vice-Presidents
Secretary
D
esmond
J. M
ayne
E
ric
A .
P
lunkett
J
ohn
J. S
heil
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL.
M
arch
3
ist
: The President in the Chair. Also
present:— Messrs. Desmond J. Mayne and John
J. Sheil, Vice-Presidents, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Peter
E. O’Connell, Francis X . Burke, John Maher,
James J. O’Connor, William J. Norman, Patrick
R. Boyd, Francis Gallagher, George G. Overend,
Ralph J. Walker, Terence de Vere White, Derrick
M. Martin, Niall S. Gaffney, Henry St. J. Blake,
John R. Halpin, Charles J. Downing, John B.
Jermyn, Francis J. Lanigan, Reginald J. Nolan,
John Carrigan, Desmond J . Collins, Cornelius J.
Daly, Patrick F. O’Reilly, Sean O hUadhaigh.
The following was among the business transacted :
Sittings o f High Court on Circuit.
T
he
Secretary stated that the Bar Council had
been invited to join with the Society in making
representations to the judges that there should be
equal intervals o f six months between the sittings
of the High Court hearing Circuit appeals twice
in each year but that no representations had yet
been made as the views o f the general body o f the
Bar had not been ascertained.
Small Dwellings (Acquisition) Acts. Costs.
T
he
Council considered and adopted with certain
amendments a report from a Committee on the
subject o f a uniform scale o f mortgagees costs in
the case o f loans under the Small Dwellings Acts
and by building societies, insurance companies
and other concerns and it was decided that the
report should be circulated to the solicitors in
terested with a view to discussion at the ordinary
general meeting o f the Society in May.
Costs under the Labourers’ Acts.
T
he
Council considered a report from a Committee
on the subject o f the negotiations with the Depart
ment of Local Government on the subject of
increases in the scale costs and it was decided to
defer further consideration until the opinion of
a costs drawer has been obtained.
Wholetime solicitors to local authorities.
R
epresentatives
from the Council were received
by a sub-Committee o f the county managers,
following a discussion with the Minister for Local
Government. Further consideration was deferred
pending consideration by the Council o f proposals
81