The Gazette 1946-49

July, 1947

Vol. 41 No. 3

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Secretary : ERIC A. PLUNKETT

President : n. ST. j. BLAKE

Wce-Presidents : •WILLIAM L. DUGGAN JOHN J. BOLGER

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL JUNE 13th. Mr. W. L. Dug'gan, Vice-President in the chair: Also present: Messrs. J. P. Tyrrell, W. J. Norman, P. R. Boyd, T. A. O'Reilly, J. P. Carrigan, H. P. Mayne, D. O'Connell, J, J. Lynch, J. R. Quirke, J. Barrett, W. S. Hayes, G. A. Overend, H. O'Donnell, J. J. Bolger, R. Greene, A. Cox, R. J. Nolan, Scan O hUadhaigh, P. F. O'Reilly, J. Travers Wolfe. Land Registry—Issue of new Land Certifi cates ON a report from a Committee, it was ordered that the Secretary should write to the Registrar of Titles suggesting that before a duplicate Land Certificate is issued an advertisement should be inserted in the Society's Gazette and in the newspapers of the application for a new certificate, that a notice should be sent to any solicitor who appears from the documents in the Registry to have dealt with the certificate, and that the applicant for the duplicate certificate should be required to give an adequate indemnity to protect any person who may be pre–

judiced by the issue of a new certificate. The object of the Council in making this regulation was to protect any solicitor who might hold a lien for costs over the Land Certificate alleged to have been lost. Applications under Sections 16 and 18 Two applications from law clerks under Section 16 for liberty to be bound for terms of three years only were considered by the Council and granted on a report from the Court of Examiners. Applications from the same law clerks, to the Chief Justice, under Section 18, for exemption from the Preliminary Examination were considered, and on a report from the Court of Examiners it was decided to offer no opposition to the granting of the applications. Coroners' Salaries THE following resolution was proposed, seconded and unanimously adopted : " The attention of the Council having been called to the utterly inadequate scale of salaries at present payable to Coroners in Eire, all of whom are either solicitors or doctors who>