The Gazette 1961 - 64

communications with his solicitor as provisions are contained therein which oblige a solicitor to furnish certain information to a Planning Authority. It was agreed that a solicitor may be required to supply the name and address of a client. Proposed vacation in the District Court The Secretary reported on the replies to a circular sent by the Society to the secretaries of local bar associations asking for the views of the bar associ ations on the proposal that no District Courts should sit in the month of August (outside the Dublin Metropolitan Area) provided that special provision were made for criminal custody cases and urgent applications. The majority of the replies received were in favour of the proposal and it was agreed that the Department of Justice be so informed Sale of leasehold interest in registered land where no leasehold folio had been opened. Costs Members acted for the vendors of leasehold property which was subject to the Registration of Title Acts. The title commenced with a lease from a development company to B dated 3oth December 1959 and registered in the Land Registry. By sublease dated 5th June 1961B assigned the dwelling- house the subject matter of the sale to the vendors. The transaction in question was an assignment by the vendors of their interest in the property to the purchaser for the sum of £3,500 subject to the annual rent of £11 per annum. There is no separate lease hold folio in the Registry for the lessee's interest either under the lease of the 3oth December 1959 or the sublease of 5th June 1961. The latter is registered as a burden on the original folio. The registered full owners of the folio are the develop ment company and the lease from the company to B is shown on the folio. Neither in the case of the /ease or in the case of the sublease is there a note on the folio to the effect that the lessor's title to grant the lease has been investigated and found good. The contract contained a clause to the effect that the purchaser should conclusively assume that B was entitled to execute the sublease to the vendor and that he should not make any objection or requisition as to or enquire into or investigate the earlier or intermediate title whether the same appeared by recital in any document or otherwise. Members enquired as to the proper scale of costs to be charged in the matter. The Council, on a report from a committee, stated that as no leasehold folio had been opened the interest sold was not registered property within the meaning of the Land Registry rules and that the ordinary commission scale fee applicable to the sale of freehold land applied.

POSITION VACANT The Council invite applications for the position of Special Examiner at the Society's First and Third Law Examinations in the following subjects, Tort, Contract, Criminal Law and Practice and Commercial Law. Particulars of the appointment may be obtained from the Secretary, Solicitors Build ings, Four Courts, Dublin 7. MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL December I3th, 1962: Mr. Overend and later the President, Mr. Lanigan in the chair and also present Messrs. Desmond J. Collins, Niall S. Gaffney, George A. Nolan, John J. Nash, Desmond Moran, Gerard M. Doyle, Edward Dillon, James R. C. Green, Charles Hyland, Peter D. M. Prentice, Timothy J. C. O'Keeffe, Ralph J. Walker, John C. O'Carroll, Brendan A. McGrath, Augustus Cullen, William A. Osborne, John Maher, John B. Jermyn, Robert McD. Taylor, Eunan McCarron, Richard Knight, Raymond A. French, Peter E. O'Connell, John Carrigan, James W. O'Donovan, Patrick Noonan, T. V. O'Connor, Dinnen B. Gilmore, Reginald J. Nolan, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Daniel J. O'Connor. The meeting passed in silence a vote of sympathy with the family of the late Mr. Thomas Bolton Cooley formerly librarian to the Society. An obituary notice appears on page 66. - The following was among the business transacted : Lectures on the Common Market The President read a letter from the Chief Justice on the subject of a proposed seminar for students on the law of the Common Market. It was decided to agree to the suggestion of the Chief Justice that the Society should share the expenses with the Honourable Society of King's Inns. New Legislation Companies Bill 1962. The Council considered the Companies Bill of 1962 and a memorandum prepared by the Secretary. It was decided to raise with a solicitor member of the Oireachtas the sections in the Act relating to the rights of solicitors and the solicitor and client privilege. Local Government (Planning and Development) Bill, 1962 A memorandum on the Local Government (Planning and Development) Bill 1962 was also considered and it was decided to raise objections to section 9 and section 80 (7). The sections would appear to infringe the client's right of privilege in