The Gazette 1955-58

MAY, 1956

Vol. 50 No. 1

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Secretary ERIC A. PLUNKETT

President DERMOT P. SHAW

Vice-frcsidtnts RALPH J. WALKER GEORGE G. OVEREND

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

COUNCIL.

THE

would ask the President of the High Court to receive them. Sittings of the High Court in Cork. IT was decided that a request should be submitted to the Superior Courts Rules Committee that a new rule should be made to enable actions to be remitted to the High Court in Cork by consent of the parties by a direction in the Central office without any formal application in Court which adds to the expense of the trial. If this rule were made an application to the Court would be necessary only in the absence of consent of all parties. Solicitor's liability for witnesses' fees and expenses. THE Council considered a report from a Committee which had obtained senior counsel's opinion on the question of the liability if any of a solicitor on record in an action for payment of such items as hospital treatment, medical, fees for treatment of the client and expert witnesses fees and expenses for attending court to give evidence in the action. Counsel referred to the question of liability to medical witnesses principally but his advice also

OF

MEETING APRIL I9TH :

The President in the Chair. Also present Messrs. Ralph J. Walker and George G. Overend, Vice-Presidents, James R. Quirke, F. J. Lanigan, Derrick M. Martin, Niall S. Gaffney, Henry St. J. Blake, George A. Nolan, John J. Sheil, P. R. Boyd, James J. O'Connor, John Carrigan, Patrick F. O'Reilly, F. Gallagher, R. McD. Taylor, John R. Hdpin, Cornelius J. Daly, Francis J. Gearty, Sean O'hUadhaigh, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Charles Downing, Reginald J. Nolan, Desmond J. Collins, Terence de Vere White, Peter E. O'Connell. The following was among the business transacted': Sittings of the High Court on Circuit. THE Secretary reported that an inquiry had been addressed to the Bar Council to ascertain whether that Council would join with the Society in a submission that Sittings of the High Court on Circuit should be at equal half yearly intervals, but that no definite reply had been received. It was decided that a deputation from the Council with representatives of the Southern Law Association