The Gazette 1940-44

Vol. 37 No. IO

April 1944

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

/' ii'e-Pr-t'xiilt'iii.i: ROBERT A. MACAULAY AHTHUR COX

Presiilfiif:

LOUIS

E. O'DEA

ERIC

A.

PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. MARCH 23rd. The President in the Chair. Present : Messrs. A. Cox,Vice-President, Greene, E. Stapleton, Merrick, O'Reilly, Boyd, P. O'Connor, Smyth, Wolfe, Carrigan, Hamill, J. S. O'Connor, 0 hUad- haigh, Overend, Norman, Mayne, Darley, Haves, O'Connell, Lynch, Fitzgerald, Dunne. Solicitors' Bill. THE COUNCIL considered a report from a Com mittee of the Council on a memorandum received from the Department of Justice. Lectures and Articles by Solicitors. THE COUNCIL passed the following resolution :— "Any activity on the part of a solicitor of a self- advertising nature designed to attract business is clearly not permissible; lectures delivered or articles published by a solicitor contrary to this principle therefore necessarily involve a breach of professional etiquette."

Betting Act (District Court and Garda Siochana) Regulations, 1931. ON A REPORT from a Committee, the Council directed that the attention of solicitors should be drawn to an error in form 5 in the Schedule to the above regulations, which states that the time for lodging an appeal to the District Court against the refusal by a Superintendent of the Garda Siochana of a certificate of fitness is 21 days, whereas the time, in fact, is onlv 14 days under .the Betting Act, 1931 s. 13 (2). CURRENT TOPICS. Mortgage as Security for Untaxed Costs. A POINT affecting solicitors, who may be compelled to accept a mortgage as security for costs due, instead of payment, was recently decided by the Supreme Court. The principal point in issue was