The Gazette 1955-58

JUNE, 1956

Vol. 50 No. 2

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND President DERMOT P. SHAW Vice-Presidents RALPH J. WALKER GEORGE G. OVEREND J ccrttarjt ERIC A. PLUNKETT

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

munications from the company should not describe the secretary as a solicitor. Agency with other solicitors. A member acted for a client resident in Ireland and instructed English solicitor to institute pro ceedings in England on the client's behalf. The action was settled, the English solicitor taxed his costs as between party and party and offered to pay agency commission to member. Member proposed to charge the client for attendances on and cor respondence with the client and asked for the Council's opinion as to :— («) whether he was obliged to pay to the client the whole or any portion of the agency fees allowed to him by the English solicitor. (b) whether he may properly charge the client in addition for correspondence with or attendances on the client in Ireland. Reference was made to Cordery on Solicitors 4th edition page 254 in which it is stated that a solicitor ..who is employed to buy or sell or otherwise act as agent for a client and who obtains a secret profit from the transaction from the other party must according to well-known principles account for it to the client.

Meetings of the Council MAY IOTH : Also present Messrs. R. J. Walker, G. G. Overend, D. J. Mayne, H. St. J. Blake, A. Cox, D. J. Collins, J. R. Quirke, J. J. Nash, F. J. Gearty, C. E. Callan, John B. Jermyn, Peter E. O'Connell, J. P. Tyrrell, J. J. O'Connor, P. F. O'Reilly, P. R. Boyd, J. J .Sheil, W. J. Norman, T. A. O'Reilly, Niall Gaffney, Joseph Barrett, C. J. Downing, R. McD. Taylor, S. O'hUadhaigh, F. X. Burke, J. R. Halpin, R. J. Nolan, G. A. Nolan, C. J. Daly, T. de Vere White, Derrick M. Martin. The following was among the business transacted : Cattle Sales Company. ON an enquiry of a member as to whether there would be any professional objection to his acting as secretary and director of a cattle sales company the Council replied stating that there would be no objection provided that no part of the business of the company is conducted in the solicitor's office or in a building having a common entrance with it. .It was also stated that the company should have a separate telephone and notepaper and that com­ The President in the Chair.

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