The Gazette 1944-46

August 594$

Vol. 39 No. 4

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President : PATRICK F. O'REILIY

WILLIAM S. HUGGARD HUGH p. O'DONNELL

Secretary:

ERIC

A.

PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 27th JUNE. The President in the Chair : Also present: Messrs. W. S. Haves, E. M. FitzGerald, D. O'Connell, G. A. Overend, J. R. Quirke, C. G. Stapleton, H. P. Mayne, J. J. Bolger, H. St. J. Blake, A. Cox, J. B. Hamill, P. R. Boyd, L. E. O'Dea. The Council dealt with the results of the First and Second Irish Examinations and the Inter mediate Examination held in June 1945, and also with a number of applications by apprentices, and routine matters. 20th JULY, 1945: The President in the Chair : Also present: Messrs. Hugh O'Donnell, Vice- President; Roger Greene, P. R. Boyd, A. Cox, J. P. Carrigan, J. R. Quirke, F. J. W. Barley, D. O'Connell, W. J. Norman, W. S. Hayes, W. L. Duggan, P. O'Connor, J. B. Hamill, H. St. J. Blake, Scan 6 hUadhaigh, L. E. O'Dea, G. A. Overend, E. M. FitzGerald, M. E. Knight, R. A. Macaulay.

The following was among the business trans acted :— Local Authorities' use of Printed Letting Agreements. MR. O'DONNELL, Vice-President, reported that during the hearing of a case by Mr. O'Shea, District Justice at the Carlow District Court, the Justice had commented adversely on the use by the Carlow Urban District Council of a printed form of tenancy agreement which was signed by the tenants in the office of a clerk of the Council without the intervention of any solicitor and stated that he considered this practice an infringe ment of the rights of the solicitors' profession. Mr. O'Donnell reported that he had communicated with the Secretary who had brought the matter before a Committee of the Council and subse quently instructed him to appear at the adjourned hearing of the case by the District Justice on 16th July, and to state that the Council fully supported what the Justice had said and that they considered it improper that Local Authorities should adopt the practice on which the Justice 31