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DUBLIN SOLICITORS' BAR
ASSOCIATION
A meeting of the Council was held on Wednesdays
6th April, 1960.
A vote of sympathy was passed on the deaths of
Mr. H. H. Maxwell, Solicitor, a member of the
Association, and of Mr. Thomas Bell,
former
District Court Clerk.
The meeting noted with satisfaction the decision
of the Principal Justice of the Metropolitan District
Court on the revision of the Civil List in accordance
with representations made by the Council, and
expressed their thanks.
The Sub-Committee engaged in drafting Auction
Particulars and Conditions of Sale reported progress.
The question of whether the months of July and
August would be more suitable for the long vacation
than those of August and September was considered.
The meeting approved of reporting to the Law
Society certain Builders' Advertisements to which
objection was taken as to their tendency to prejudice
purchasers' solicitors.
The next meeting was
fixed
for Wednesday,
4th May, 1960.
THE CIRCUIT COURT (NEW CIRCUITS)
ORDER, 1960
The Circuit Court (New Circuits) Order, 1960—
S.I. No. 70 of 1960—will come into operation on
the nth day of April, 1960.
The several counties and county boroughs in the
State are hereby divided for the purposes of the
Circuit Court into the groups specified in column (2)
of the Schedule to this Order at reference numbers
i to 8.
Business transacted in the Circuit Court which
was initiated before the commencement of this
Order and was not completed before such commence
ment shall be continued and completed as if this
Order had been in operation when such business
was initiated.
SCHEDULE
Ref.
No.
(i)
i.
2.
The Circuits
0)
Dublin County
Borough and
Dublin County.
Cork County
Borough and
Cork County.
Names
of the
Circuits
(3)
Dublin
Circuit.
Cork
Circuit.
Judge or Judges
assigned to the
Circuits
(4)
John Charles
Conroy.
Michael Binchy.
Thomas Joseph
Neylon.
Ref.
No.
(i)
3-
4-
5-
6.
7-
8.
The Circuits
(2)
Cavan.
Donegal.
Leitrim.
Monaghan.
Sligo.
Laois.
Longford .
Offaly.
Roscommon .
Westmeath.
Kildare.
Louth.
Meath.
Wexfbrd.
Wicklow.
Clare.
Kerry.
Limerick County.
Limerick County
Borough.
Carlow.
Kilkenny.
Tipperary (North
Riding).
Tipperary (South
Riding).
Waterford County.
Waterford County
Borough.
Galway.
Mayo.
Names
of the
Circuits
(3)
Northern
Circuit.
Midland
Circuit.
Eastern
Circuit.
South
western
Circuit.
South-
Eastern
Circuit.
Western
Circuit.
Judge or Judges
assigned to the
Circuits
(4)
Patrick Noel Ryan.
Michael John
Sweeney.
Kenneth Edwin
Lee Deale.
The Hon.
Mr. Justice
Barra O'Briain.
Scan Mac Diarmaid
Fawsitt.
John James
Durcan.
Circuit Judge not assigned to any particular Circuit :—
Judge James McGivern.
Explanatory Note.
This order divided the State into eight rcw Circuit Court
circuits to replace the existing nine circuits and assigns judges
to the new circuits.
DECISIONS OF PROFESSIONAL
INTEREST
Income Tax and Surtax
Deficient return.
(Income Tax Act,
1952 (15
&
16
Geo. 6 &
i E//£. 2,
c.
10)
s.
25 (3) (a).)
S.
25 (3)
of the
Income Tax Act,
1952,
provides that a person who
neglects or refuses to deliver a true and correct return for
tax purposes shall —" (a) if proceeded against by action
in any court, forfeit the sum of
£20
and treble the tax
which he ought to be charged under this act.
..."
Under
that subsection the taxpayer is liable to a penalty of treble
the whole tax which he ought to be charged during the
relevant year.