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May,
1952
THE GAZETTE
of the
INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND
President
A
rthur
C
ox
Vice-Presidents
D
esmond
R . C
ounahan
ll
.
d
.
G
erald
J . O ’D
onnell
Secretary
E
ric
A . P
lunkett
FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS
MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL
ijt h
M
ay
,
1952.
The President in the Chair.
Also present: Messrs. Desmond R. Counahan and
Gerald J. O’Donnell, Vice-Presidents, Reginald J.
Nolan, John R. Halpin, Derrick M. Martin, James
J. O’Connor, John A. Dundon, John J. Nash,
John L. Kealy, William J. Norman, Joseph Barrett,
Francis J. Gearty, Patrick R. Boyd, John J. Sheil,
Henry St. J. Blake, James R. Quirke, Desmond J.
Mayne, George G. Overend, John Carrigan, Dermot
P. Shaw, Cornelius J. Daly, Louis E . O ’Dea, John
Maher, Thomas A . O’Reilly, Patrick F. O ’Reilly.
The following was among the business trans
acted :—
Charges for Arbitrations in the Council
Chamber
O
n
a report from the Finance Committee it was
decided to reduce the charges for arbitration in the
Council Chamber. A note o f the revised charges
appears in this issue
o f
the
G
azette
.
Agency between English and Irish Solicitors
O
n
a report from a Committee the Council con
sidered a letter from the Law Society, London,
referring to Rule 3 of the English Solicitors’
Practice Rules, 1936, by which it is provided that an
English solicitor “ shall not agree to share with
any person not being a solicitor or other duly
qualified legal agent practising in the United
Kingdom o f Great Britain, Northern Ireland and
India, or any other British dominion, colony, or
dependency, his profit costs in respect o f any
business either contentious or non-contentious.”
Enquiries were received by the English Law Society
from their members as to whether the sharing o f
profit costs with solicitors practising in the Republic
o f Ireland is permissible under Rule 3. The English
Law Society asked for the observations o f this
Society on the matter. On a report from a Committee
the Council decided to reply to the English Law
Society suggesting that the provisions of Rule 3
o f the English Solicitors’ Practice Rules, 1936,
should be amended so as to enable English solicitors
and Irish solicitors to allow to each other the usual
agency commission as heretofore.
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