The Gazette 1952-1955

Vol. 47 No. 7

January 1954

THE GAZETTE o f the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President

Vice-Presidents

Secretary

J oseph B arrett

J ohn J. N ash J ohn R. H alpin

E ric A . P lunkett

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

IMPORTANT I f you have not already taken out and stamped a Registrar’s certificate you should do so immediately. The final date for stamping certificates in time will be 5th February, 1954. A certificate which is not duly stamped before this date must be produced to the Society for noting within one month of stamping. Failure to comply with the statutory requirements o f stamping and, where necessary, production o f stamped certificates will render them ineffective for the purpose o f taxation of costs for work done before compliance with the statutory requirements. MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL ioth D ecember , 1953. Mr. James R. Quirke and later Mr. Joseph Barrett in the chair. Also present: Messrs. John J. Nash, John R. Halpin, Sean O hUadhaigh, Francis J. Lanigan, Nathaniel Lacy, Joseph P. Tyrrell, John Maher, Peter E. O’Connell, Thomas A. O’Reilly, Derrick M. Martin, Dermot P. Shaw, Charles J. Downing, George G. Overend, Ralph J. Walker, Cornelius J. Daly, John J. Sheil, Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond J. Collins, Niall S. Gaffney, Gerald J. O’Donnell, George A. Nolan,

Henry St. J. Blake, Arthur Cox, John Carrigan, James J. O’Connor, Louis E. O’Dea, Patrick F. O’Reilly, Desmond J. Mayne. The following was among the business transacted : Extraordinary Members o f the Council. The following nominations were adopted Incorporated Law Society o f Northern Ireland :— Messrs. Brian McK. McGuigan, Frederick IT. Mullan, George Murnaghan, Charles MacLaughlin, James C. Taylor; Southern Law Association : Messrs. John F. Foley, Edmund Hayes, John B. Jermyn, Patrick J. Kavanagh, Barry M. O’Meara. Stamp duties. T he Council considered a report from a Committee on correspondence with the Revenue Commissioners dealing with the liability for stamp duty where property is purchased by trustees for a charity or religious community or where property is purchased by diocesan trustees who hold it in trust for the parishioners. In some cases difficulty has been experienced in obtaining the certificate under section 13 of the Finance (No. 2) Act 1947 as it is impossible to state with certainty that all the beneficiaries are 5 9