The Gazette 1944-46

November 1944

Vol. 38 No. 3

THE GAZETTE °f ie INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Secretary:

President:

ROBERTA. MACAULAY ARTHUR COX

E. O'DEA

LOUIS

PLUNKETT

A.

ERIC

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. OCTOBER 6th. The President in the chair. Present: Messrs. A. Cox, Vice-President, R. Greene, D. O'Connell, W. S. Hayes, J. J. Lynch, M. E. Knight, W. J. Norman, G. A. Overend, C. C. Stapleton, E. M. FitzGerald, H. P. Mayne, J. S. O'Connor. P. R. Boyd. J. B. Hamill, P. F. O'Reilly, P. O'Connor/H. O'Donnell, J. J. Dunnc, J. Travers Wolfe, J. J. Smyth. J. R. Quirke, F. J. W. Barley, H. St. J. Blake, J. J. Bolger. The following were among the matters dealt with :— Land Registration Fee Order, 1944. THE Council considered a letter from the Depart ment of Justice stating that the Minister had decided to appoint a committee under the chair manship of Mr. H. B. O'Hanlon, Taxing Master, to consider and make a report on the above Fee Order and also the scales of fees at present in force in the Registry of Deeds and the Courts of

Justice. It was stated in the letter that copies of the Council's memorandum on the Fee Order would be supplied by the Department to the members of the Committee and the Council was invited to nominate a representative to act thereon. The Council ordered that a letter in reply should be written to the Department stating that the Council nominated Mr. J. B. Hamill to act on the Committee and that the Minister should be requested to accept the nomination of Senator L. E. O'Dea and Mr. J. S. O'Connor, T.D. to act as additional members of the Committee, the nomination of such members by the Council to be without prejudice to its right to examine and criticise any recommendations of the Committee on their merits. It was further ordered (1) that the Minister should be requested to suspend the operation of the Land Registration Fee Order pending the Committee's Report; (2) that the Minister should be informed that members of the Society had asked that a Special General Meeting should be summoned to consider the Fee Order but that the Council had expressed the opinion 27