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THE GAZETTE
OF THE
of
Vol. Ill, No. 9.]
March, 1910.
•
FOR C.RCULATION
.AMONGST MEMBERS.
Meetings of the Council.
February $(h.
Taxation of County Court Costs.
A LETTER was read from a member, giving
particulars of items disallowed upon taxation
of a Solicitor and Client County Court Bill of
Costs which he considered
to be wrongly
disallowed, and asking the views of
the
Council in reference thereto. The matter
was referred to the County Counts Com
mittee with authority to deal with it.
Certificates.
Three applications by Solicitors for liberty
to
renew
their annual certificates were
considered and granted.
Apprentices.
A report from the Court of Examiners upon
applications of three Law Clerks to be bound
under Section 16 was submitted. Two of
the applications were granted, and the third
was refused.
Cost Queries.
A report was received from the Costs
Committee upon the following queries sub
mitted for decision :—Conditions of Sale,
under which a purchaser agreed to purchase,
provided for the payment of an approval fee
by the purchaser to the vendor's Solicitor
on draft assignment, in addition to the scale
fee payable by the vendor.
Is the purchaser
bound to pay the approval ?
The Committee
answered this question in the affirmative.
The vendor's Solicitor
in
the above-
mentioned contract requested the purchaser's
Solicitor to return the copies documents sent
with the abstract of title to have those copies
certified, the conditions of sale providing for
certified copies to be furnished.
Purchaser's
Solicitor declined
to
return
the copies,
claiming that he should be furnished with a
further set of copies, which should be certified.
The query requested a statement as to the
recognised custom upon
the point.
The
report stated that the recognised custom is
for the purchaser's Solicitor to return the
copies which had been sent with the abstract,
so that those copies might be certified. The
report of the Committee and the answers to
the queries were adopted.
February 23rd.
Arrangement Matters.
A letter was read from the Hon. Secretary
and Treasurer of the Institute of Chartered
Accountants in Ireland expressing the agree
ment of the Institute with the views expressed
by the Council of this Society upon the rela
tive functions of Accountants and Solicitors
in Arrangement Matters and contained in a
letter
to
the Solicitor of
the
Institute.
Copies of these letters appear in this GAZETTE.
Finance Bill, 1909.
A letter was read from a member suggesting
the desirability of calling a meeting of the
profession to consider this Bill, in reference
to its effect upon the tenant purchasers of
Ireland.
It was decided, having regard to
the resolutions dealing with the Bill passed
by the Council last July, which were cir
culated amongst Members of Parliament,
and to the amendments subsequently inserted
in the Bill, and also having regard to the
discussion which
took place at the
last