The Gazette 1944-46

Vol. 38 No. IO

April 1945

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

PrrjiJent: PATRICK F. O'REILLY

Secretary .'

WILLIAMS. HUGGARD HUGH p. O'DONNELL

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PLONKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. 23rd March, 1945. The President in the chair : Also present: Messrs. J. J. Smyth, P. R. Boyd, J. Travers Wolfe, Roger Greene, G. A. Overend, J. R. Quirke, W. S. Hayes, W. J. Norman, Daniel O'Connell, W. L. Duggan, J. P. Carrigan, C. G. Stapleton, S. 6 hUadhaigh, F. J. W. Barley, J. Gillespie, J. B. Hamill, A. Cox, L. E. O'Dea, H. St. J. Blake, E. M. FitzGerald, J. J. Bolger, H. P. Mayne, J. S. O'Connor, J. J. Dunne. Department of External Affairs and Foreign Estates. ON a report from a Committee it was ordered that the Secretary should write to the Department of External Affairs stating that the attention of the Council has been called to the fact that the Department undertakes the work of collecting and transmitting to this country the shares of Irish citizens in estates of persons who die domi ciled in America and other foreign countries and that it is considered that this practice is an infringement of the established rights of the

solicitors' profession, particularly having regard to the fact that the Department have, in a number of cases, written to the next-of-kin and offered to undertake the work for them on a commission basis. It was also ordered that the Department should be requested to receive a Deputation from the Council in connection with the matter. Unqualified Person. THE Secretary reported that he had submitted a case to Counsel for his opinion as to whether an unqualified person resident in Co. Cork had ren dered himself liable to proceedings for penalties in respect of an application which he had made to the Central Office of the Land Registry for the registration of a transfer of registered land, and that Counsel had advised that proceedings should be instituted in the name of the Secretary under Section 53 of the Solicitors' (Ireland) Act, 1898, and Section 44 of the Stamp Act, 1891. It was ordered that proceedings should be instituted as advised by Counsel and that solicitors and Counsel should be retained by the Secretary for that purpose.