The Gazette 1911-12

[JULY, 1911

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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been paid in the following month, and having furnished to the District Council his costs, the District Council refused to send them on to the Taxing Officer, as they contended he was entitled to the fee of half a guinea and no more, for each title furnished. A reply was directed stating the steps which the Council suggested should be forthwith taken. Land Commission. A letter in reply was read from the Irish Land Commission stating that if the Council approved, the Commission would apply for the installation at the Examiners' Offices in 18 Nassau Street of a telephone on the penny-in-the-slot system. It was decided to ask the Commission to make the application suggested. Certificate. An application by a Solicitor for his first annual certificate was submitted and was granted. Supreme Court Rule. The President submitted a copy of a new Order of the Supreme Court which, as a member of the rule-making authority, he had signed. The President stated that he had suggested certain amendments in the Order as drafted, and that those amendments had been adopted. The Order lays down the procedure to be followed where a Court of a foreign country transmits to the Supreme Court, by His Majesty's Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, any process or citation for service on any person in Ireland. The Order appears in this GAZETTE. Land Commission Rule. The President submitted a letter he had received from the Irish Land Com mission enclosing draft rule in reference to claimant's costs of proof in cases of superior or intervening interests where the redemption price does not exceed £100. The President stated the suggestions he had made to the Land Commission for amending the draft rule, and that these sug gestions had been adopted, and the Council expressed approval of the draft rule so amended. The rule has been issued, and appears in this GAZETTE.

subject to an annuity payable to the Land Commission, the Solicitor for the lessor claimed remuneration from the lessee in addition to the scale fee on the lease, in respect of the cost of obtaining the consent of the Land Commission to the making of the lease. The Council held that the lessee is not liable to pay the additional remuneration claimed. June 28th. Coronation. The President informed the Council that, in obedience to the King's command, he had attended in Westminster Abbey at the Coronation of Their Majesties King George V. and Queen Mary, upon June 22nd. Examiners and Professors. The Council re-appointed Mr. Charles H. Denroche, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., Solicitor ; and Mr. Frank V. Gordon, B.A., ex-Scholar, T.C.D., Solicitor, as Special Examiners for 1912 ; and also re-appointed Mr. Thomas G. Quirke, B.A., LL.D., R.U.I., Solicitor, as Professor of. Real Property, Equity and Conveyancing; and Mr. Frederick G. Sharpe, LL.D., T.C.D., Solicitor, as Professor of Common Law, for 1911-12. Labourers Acts. A letter was read from the Local Govern ment Board in reply to the letter of 7th February, 1911, from the Council, in reference to the liability of District Councils to owners of lands for the costs of consents necessary to be filed in the Land Commission where agreements have been entered into for sale of the lands under the Land Purchase Acts, and portion of the lands agreed to be sold has been acquired under the Labourers Acts. The Board suggested in their letter that it is desirable that a decision of a Court of law on the point should be sought in some particular cases. The letter was referred to the Costs Committee, with power to further consult Counsel. Labourers Acts. A letter was read from a country member giving particulars of a case in which he acted for judicial tenants and furnished title in February, 1910, the compensation having