The Gazette 1955-58

Vol. 50 No. 7

JANUARY, 1957

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Vice-Presidentt DESMOND J. COLLINS CHARLES J. DOWNING

Secrttary ERIC A. PLUNKETT

President NIALL S. GAFFNEY

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

IMPORTANT. THE latest date for taking out practising certificates in time will be Tuesday, February 5th. Attention is drawn to the provisions of Part V of the Solicitors Act, 1954, with regard to the issuing of practising certificates and to Sections 54 to 57 with regard to the qualifications for acting as solicitor and the consequences of practising without a certificate. The form of declaration which must be made in order to obtain a practising certificate may be obtained by Dublin solicitors, or by country solicitors through their Dublin agents, on application to the Society's office. Neither the declaration nor the certificate when issued can be sent by post. MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. DECEMBER 6TH : Mr. Shaw and afterwards Mr. Gaffney in the Chair. Also present Messrs. James R. Quirke, George A. Nolan, John Carrigan, R. McD. Taylor, Joseph P. Tyrrell, George G. Overend, W. J. Comerford, Francis J. Lanigan, John J. Shell, Scan O'hUadhaigh, John B. Jermyn, Joseph Barrett, Cornelius J. Daly, Arthur Cox, John R. Halpin, Charles J. Downing, Patrick R. Boyd, Peter E. O'Connell, Edmund Hayes, Niall S. Gaffney,

Henry St. J. Blake, Desmond J. Collins, Thomas A. O'Reilly, F. X. Burke, Desmond Mayne, Ralph J. Walker, J. F. Foley, Terence de Vere White, John J. Nash, Patrick F. O'Reilly, C. E. Callan. The following was among the business transacted- Joint Committee with the Bar Council. MESSRS. Thomas A. O'Reilly, Desmond J. Collins and G. G. Overend were reappointed as the Society's representatives. under schedule 2. THE Council having considered a detailed report from a committee decided that an application should be made to the statutory costs fixing committee under the Solicitors' Remuneration Act, 1881, for a general Order prescribing a new method of charging for business falling under Schedule 2 S.R.G.O. 1884 and the General Order in Chancery of 1859. It is proposed to submit that the present system of detailed charges should be replaced by a single gross sum bill based on the following factors : Solicitors' Remuneration. Item charges