The Gazette 1918-19

11

JUNE, 1918]

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

as in said Act is provided, should frame, and from time to time amend a scale of fees, costs and charges to be paid to Counsel and Attorneys in suits and proceedings in the Civil Bill Courts, and that such scale or amended scale, certified under the hands of the Lord Chancellor and any five of such Chairmen, should, from and after such day as should be fixed thereby be in force in every Civil Bill Court. And whereas a meeting of the said Chair– men having been duly convened for the purpose the following five of them were selected to frame such scale of fees, costs, and charges as aforesaid, that is to say : His Honor Judge Brereton Barry, K.C. ; His Honor Judge Todd, K.C., Recorder of Londonderry; His Honor Judge Charles Doyle, K.C. ; His Honor Judge Johnston, K.C. ; and His Honor Judge Brown, K.C. And whereas a scale of certain fees, costs, and charges in suits and proceedings in the said Civil Bill Courts, dated the 24th Decem– ber, 1877, was duly framed and certified as in the said Act provided, and it is now expedient and necessary to frame a further or supplemental scale in manner hereinafter appearing. Now, I, The Right Honourable Sir Ignatius J. O'Brien, Bart., Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, with the concurrence of the said Judges, so selected as aforesaid, and in pursuance, of the powers given by the said recited Act, have amended the scale of costs and charges, as shewn in the Schedule hereto, as the scale of costs and charges to be paid to Solicitors in such proceedings in the Civil Bill Courts, and I, the said Right Honourable Sir Ignatius J. O'Brien, Bart., Lord High Chancellor of Ireland, with the concurrence of the said Judges, as testified by their signature hereto, in pursuance of the powers given by the said Act and of all other powers thereunto us enabling, do hereby certify the said further or supplemental scale of costs- and charges, and do hereby further certify that on account of urgency the said

The following Rule shall be added to and form part of the Rules of the Supreme Court (Ireland), 1905 : Order LXF. Rule 19 (a). The costs and fees payable to Solicitors in respect of business transacted by them in or before the High Court or Court of Appeal, or any divisional or other Courts thereof, or the offices thereof, as prescribed by Appendix S, shall be increased in respect of business transacted on or after the 7th day of May, 1918, by the addition thereto of an amount equal to twenty-five per cent, of the amount of such prescribed costs and fees, such increase to be in force during the continuance of the present War and for a period of six months thereafter. DUBLIN. THE RULES PUBLICATION ACT, 1893. NOTICE is hereby given, in accordance with the provisions of the Rules Publication Act, 1893, that the Rule-making Authority prescribed by the County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877, proposes to make the Riile set out hereunder, the same to come into immediate operation as a Provisional Rule and to continue in force until Rules shall have been made in accordance with the provisions of the said Rules Publication Act. And notice is hereby further given, that copies of the said Rule as a draft Rule may be obtained on application to the Office of the Lord Chancellor's Permanent Secretary. Dated this I3th day of May, 1918. FOUR COURTS, Gerald Horan, Clerk of the Crown and Hanaper and Permanent Secretary to the Lord Chancellor of Ireland. WHEREAS by " The County Officers and Courts (Ireland) Act, 1877," it was enacted that the Lord Chancellor, with the con– currence of the County Court Judges and Chairmen of Quarter Sessions in Ireland, or any five of them to be selected or nominated