The Gazette 1946-49

Vol. 40 No. 9

March, 1947

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

President : H. ST. J. BLAKE

Secretary : ERIC A. PLUNKETT

Pice-Presidents : WILLIAM L. DUGGAN JOHN J. BOLGER

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL FEBRUARY zist. The President in the chair : Also present: Mr. John J. Bolger, Vice-President; Messrs. W. J. Norman, J. P. Tyrrell, J. R. Quirke, J. Barrett, D. O'Connell, H. P. Mayne, P. R. Boyd, J. B. Hamill, R. J. Nolan, A. Cox, J. J. Smyth, D. P. Shaw, S. 6 hUadhaigh, J. S. O'Connor, L. E. O'Dea, P. F. O'Reilly. Costs Query THE Council considered a report from a Committee on a query as to the proper scale of costs chargeable by a solicitor acting for the purchaser of lands which had been offered for sale by public auction under conditions in which the land was disclosed as unregistered land. The property was not sold at the auction but was sold some months later by private treaty under the same conditions. Title was shown and investigated and searches were made and a deed of conveyance prepared, approved and engrossed. It then transpired that the lands had been registered The following was among the business transacted :

under the Registration of Title Act, 1891, between the date of the auction and the signing of the con– ditions of sale, unknown to the purchaser's solicitor. A new transfer was prepared and the sale was com– pleted and the dealing registered on the folio. At the request of the purchaser equities were not dis– charged. In the opinion of the Committee the costs should be charged under the Land Registration Rules, 1937, and the appropriate scale was two-thirds of the scale under the Solicitors Remuneration Act, 1881, in addition to outlay. The report of the Committee was approved. Solicitors' Remuneration THE President reported that the Superior Courts Rules Committee had made an order increasing solicitors' remuneration in the High Court and Supreme Court by 25 per cent, in respect of business transacted on or after 24th February, 1947. A copy of the Order is printed in this issue. The President also reported that the Committee under Section 2 of the Solicitors Remuneration Act, 1881, had met on two occasions to deal with the 6l