The Gazette 1907-8

APRIL, 1908]

The Gazette of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

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...RESOLVED.—The Bar Council being of opinion that, before giving a certificate of prima facie title, it is the duty of the counsel to whom the title is submitted, in addition to the perusal of the title, to satisfy himself of the identity of the parcels of land mentioned in the Originating Application and Map, with those mentioned in the title-deeds, it is hereby resolved that the following scale of fees shall be adopted by the Bar :— 1. Where purchase does not exceed ^2000, minimum fee, ^3 y. 2. Where purchase exceeds ^2000, minimum fee of ^3 3$., together with a further fee of IDS. 6d. for each document of title to be perused over five. Originating Application and Map to be con sidered as one document of title. DEAR SIR,—I beg the receipt of your letter of the i6th ult., and copy resolution enclosed therein, which the Council of this Society have had under their consider ation. The Council of this Society regret that the Council of the Bar have deemed it necessary to formulate any scale of fees in connexion with the giving of the certificate of prima facie title under the Estates Commissioners' Rules of the 4th November, 1907. My Council are emphatically of opinion that nothing should now be done which in any way would tend t,o create a difference between solicitors and their counsel, and, as in the past there has been no suggestion of unfair treatment of the Bar by the solicitors' profes sion, it occurs to my Council that no hard and fast scale of fees for counsel should be sought to be laid down. Under these circumstances, combined with the fact that Mr. Justice Wylie has now sent to the Bar Council a memorandum explanatory of what it would be in future necessary for counsel to do in connexion with the giving of the cer tificate, it is suggested that matters should remain as heretofore. Faithfully yours, . W. G. WAKELY, Secretary. SOLICITORS' BUILDINGS, FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN, 2 ^nd January, 1908. to acknowledge

54 LANSUOWNK ROAD, DUBLIN, 24/// January, 1908.

DEAR SIR,—I bog- formally to acknowledge receipt of your letter to Mr. T. H. Maxwell, I Hon. Sec. pro tern, for Bar'Council, referring I to the matter of prima facie title. j I shall place the letter before the Council at the next meeting. Yours faithfully, HENRY HANNA, Hon. Sec. Bar Council. W. G. Wakely, Esq. DEAR SIR,—I beg to acknowledge receipt of your letter of the 2nd inst., enclosing a copy of the resolution of the Council of the Incor porated Law Society of Ireland in support of the Civil Bill Courts (Dublin) Bill, which I shall lay before the Bar Council at their next meeting. In further reply to your letter of the 22nd January, as to the fees for certificates of prima facie titles, I beg to say that your letter was before the Bar Council at their meeting last Saturday, and I have been asked to say that one of the chief objects of the Council, in passing the resolution referred to, was to obviate any differences between solicitors and their counsel. For nearly all work done by the Bar there is a recognized minimum fee, and the Bar Council think that the Incorporated Law Society will, on consideration, concur in the advisability of having a minimum fee fixed for this new work. Except as regards minimum fee, the Bar Council have laid down no hard and fast scale, and do not desire to do so. Before passing the resolution the necessity j for some minimum fee had become abundantly 1 plain to them, and the scale was fixed as a result of consultation with the leading Con veyancing Counsel at the Bar. Faithfully yours, HENRY HANNA, Hon. Sec. Bar Council. W. G. Wakely, Esq., Secretary, Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. SOLICITORS' BUILDINGS, FOUR COURTS, DUBLIN, i2th March, 1908. DEAR SIR,— In reply to your letter of the 3rd inst., I am directed to inform you that the LAW LIBRARY, .FOUR COURTS, March yd, 1908.

T. H. Maxwell, Hon. Sec. pro tern., General Council of the Bar, Law Library, Four Courts, Dublin.