The Gazette 1952-1955

Vol. 48 No. 1

May, 1954

THE GAZETTE oj the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF TRET.AND

P ruidm t J oseph B arrett

Vict-Prtsidcnts J ohn J . N ash J ohn R . H alpin

Scerttarj E ric A . P lunkett

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. 13TH M a y : The President in the chair; also present:—Messrs. John J. Nash and John R. Halpin, Vice-Presidents ; Niall S. Gaffney, James R. Quirke, Dermot P. Shaw, John B. Jermyn, Barry M. O’Meara, Christopher E. Callan, Edmund Hayes, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Peter E. O’Connell, John Maher, Sean O hUadhaigh, Charles J. Downing, Thomas A. O’Reilly, Louis E . O’Dea, Henry J. Blake, John Carrigan, George G . Overend, Ralph J. Walker, George A . Nolan, William J. Norman, John J. Sheil, Desmond J. Collins, Desmond J. Mayne, Patrick F. O’Reilly, Patrick R. Boyd, Cornelius J. Daly, James J. O’Connor, Francis J. Lanigan, Derrick M. Martin. The following was among the business transacted : New course o f lectures for apprentices. On a report from the Court o f Examiners, the Council decided to establish a new course o f lectures to be known as Course D on the subject o f taxation, including death duties and income tax. It is expected that this course of lectures will start in October next.

Probate Office. Members wrote complaining of the action of the Probate Office in disclosing particulars to the press before they were available to members as solicitors for the executors. The Council expressed the view that the practice o f giving particulars of the wills and assets o f deceased persons is open to objection, but that if such information must be given it should not be available to the press until after the grant has been sent by the Probate Office to the solicitors for the personal representatives. A complaint was also received that there had been delay in sending the grant to the executors’ solicitors by registered post in accordance with the practice recently adopted and it was decided to make enquiries. Election to charge item costs instead o f the commission scale fee. Members acted for the lessors o f property on a lease for twenty-one years at a rack rent. The lessors’ solicitors submitted an itemised bill for payment by the lessees. The lessees maintain that the costs should be drawn on the commission scale. No notice of intention to charge an itemised bill was given either to the lessees or their solicitor prior to the delivery 1