The Gazette 1952-1955

June, 1953

Vol. 47 No. 2

THE GAZETTE o f the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Vice-Presidents

Secretary

President J ambs R . Q u irks

J ohn C arrigan

E ric A . P lunkett

J ames J . O ’C onnor

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

the vendor would furnish sufficient title to enable equities to be discharged. After title had been deduced and investigated, but before the draft transfer had been submitted for approval, the con­ tract was rescinded by agreement on the terms, inter alia , that the purchaser should pay the vendor’s costs down to the date of the rescission o f the con­ tract. The vendor’s solicitors furnished a bill which included a sum of £ 10 , professional charges as if the sale had been completed. The purchaser objected and suggested a fee of £4. 4- °- as sufficient. The vendor’s solicitors then submitted a detailed bill which substantially exceeded the sum of £ 10 . The question was submitted for the opinion o f the Council as to the proper charges. The Council decided that the business was uncompleted within the meaning o f the Solicitors’ Remuneration General Order 1884, clause z[c), and that the charges were regulated by the old system as altered by Schedule 2. The fact that the vendor’s solicitors first submitted a bill for the sum of £ 10 did not alter the position as it was rejected by the purchaser’s solicitors. (Re Nabarro, 59 T .L.R . 24). 11

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL J une iit h , 1953- The President in the Chair. Also present: Messrs. John Carrigan and James J. O’Connor, Vice-Presidents,; Francis J. Gearty, Christopher E. Callan, Thomas A. O’Reilly, John Maher, Peter E. O’Connell, John R. Halpin, Derrick M. Martin, Ralph J. Walker, George G. Overend, Patrick R. Boyd, Desmond J. Collins, Niall S. Gaffney, Arthur Cox, Francis J. Lanigan, William J. Norman, Gerald J. O’Donnell, Desmond J. Mayne, Desmond R. Counahan, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Joseph Barrett, Patrick F. O’Reilly, John J. Sheil, Sean 0 hUadhaigh. The following was among the business trans­ acted :— Uncompleted business. Submission to arbitration. A. & co. acted for the vendor on a sale of registered land by private treaty for the sum o f £100. A deposit of £20, was paid to the vendor’s solicitors on the signing o f the contract which provided that