The Gazette 1949-1952

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Vol.

June, 1951

No.

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOC IETY OF IRELAND

President

Vice-Presidents

Secretary

R oger G reen e

N ia ll S. G affn ey F rancis J. G earty

E ric A . P lunkett

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL M ay 29TH. A special meeting o f the Council 'was held to consider a report from a Committee on a suggested application for an increase in the scales of solicitors’ item charges under the Solicitors’ Remuneration General Orders 1884-1947, and for other amendments to the Orders. In the absence of the President and Vice-Presidents, Mr. William j. Norman took the Chair. Also present: Messrs. Sean 0 hUadhaigh, James J. O’Connor, Arthur Cox, Patrick R. Boyd, John J. Sheil, Thomas A. O’Reilly, William S. Huggard, John Carrigan, Dermot P. Shaw, Desmond Mayne, Edmund Hayes, Daniel O’Connell. The following decisions were reached : (i) An application should be made to the Committee appointed under Section 2 of the Solicitors’ Remuneration Act, 1881, consisting of the Chief Justice, the President of the High Court, the Senior- Ordinary Judge of the Supreme Court and the President of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland, for an order increasing the scale fees for

item charges under the bid system as modified by Schedule 2 by 75 per cent, on the fees charged in 1939, in substitution for the increases granted in 1947. The last mentioned increases were 25 per cent, in respect of letters and attendances, and i6§ per cent, in respect of other work, calculated in both cases on the fees charged in 1939; (ii) Having regard to the majority decision o f the Supreme Court (O’Byrne and Lavery, J J ., dis­ senting), in the case of Lanigan v. Carlow Mental Board, the Committee should be asked to rescind Rule 1 1 , part 1, Schedule 1, of the Solicitors’ Re­ muneration General Order, 1884, which provides that the commission scale does not apply in the case of sales under the Land Clauses Consolidation Acts or other Acts incorporating the same ; (iii) The Committee should be asked to amend the first commission scale in Part 2, Schedule 1, Solicitors’ Remuneration General Order, 1884, as amended, which prescribes the charges for leases and agreements for leases at a rack rent, by providing that where the rent exceeds £100 per annum the commission is to be paid as a percentage on the