The Gazette 1955-58

The foregoing were declared duly elected. The result of the ballot for the 31 ordinary members of the Council and the supplemental list was as follows :— Henry St. J. Blake, 541; Arthur Cox, 520; Thomas A. O'Reilly, 514; Dermot P. Shaw, 511 ; Joseph Barrett, 506 ; John Carrigan, 487 ; Cornelius J. Daly, 478 ; Joseph P. Tyrrell, 477; John R. Halpin, 473 ; Desmond J. Collins, 453 ; John J. Nash, 452; William J. Norman, 447; Patrick R, Boyd, 445 ; Niall S. Gaffney, 438; Francis J. Lanigan, 432; Peter E. O'Connell, 431; Patrick F. O'Reilly, 430 ; Charles J. Downing, 429 ; Scan O hUadhaigh, 428; John J. Sheil, 418; James J. O'Connor, 414; Francis J. Gearty, 394; George G. Overend, 393 ; Francis X. Burke, 383 ; Desmond J. Mayne, 380; Terence de Vere White, 374; George Nolan, 370 ; Ralph J. Walker, 370 ; Francis J. Gallagher, 366; Robert Me D. Taylor, 335; James R. Quirke, 334; Supplemental List: John Matter, 328; William J. Comerford, 297; Patrick Noonan, 284. The President declared the foregoing members of the Society duly elected to the Council and the supplemental list in accordance with the Scrutineers' report. The following candidates received the number of votes placed after their names :— David R. Pigot, 276 ; Christopher Gore Grimes, 257; Nathaniel Lacy, 249; John J. O'Dwyer, 222 ; James V. Aitken, 216 ; James A. Kelly, 212 ; Lydon G. Carr Lett, 202 ; T. Finbarr O'Reilly, 198 ; Gerald S. O'Rourke, 198 ; Edmund S. Doyle, 197; Maurice E. Veale, 196; Gerard M. Doyle, 163; Peadar Cowan, 133. The President moving the adoption of the report of the Council said :— Ladies and Gentlemen; since our last Meeting, death has taken its toll and we regret the passing of Alfred S. Machin, James Vincent Brady, John T. Doyle, Scan Nolan and Edmond R. McDonnell all of Dublin, Ezekiel D. Wiley, Waterford, Thomas Shields of Athenry, Co. Galway, George Murnaghan of Omagh, Co. Tyrone who at the time of his death was an ex traordinary member of the Council and Thomas D. Vance of Bailieborough, Co. Cavan. To their relatives we offer our sincere sympathy. At our last meeting I intimated that the Council were engaged in making various regulations under the Solicitors' Act 1954 and since then the following regulations have been made:— Apprenticeship and Education Regulations. Professional Practice Conduct and Discipline Reguktions. Solicitor's Accounts Regulations.

The following was among the business transacted : Commission paid to solicitor's clerk ON an application from a member for a waiver under regulation 9 of the Professional Practice Regulations to enable him to remunerate his managing clerk partly by a commission on business introduced by the latter, the Council decided that such an agreement would be illegal under section 62 of the Solicitors' Act, 1954, and that the Professional Practice Regula tions do not enable the Council to exempt solicitors from the application of the section. Search Fee A MEMBER held a deed of assignment prepared in 1932 in respect of which no costs were due by the client who consulted another solicitor who was authorised to take up the document. Member claimed a fee of £i is. to cover correspondence and transmission of the document and the question was raised as to his obligation to hand over the document and his right to claim the fee. The Council ruled that the case is covered by opinion 90 printed at page 513 of the 1956 Calendar and Law Directory and that member should hand over the deed of assignment to the client's present solicitor without payment of any search or other fee. ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING AN Ordinary General Meeting ot the Society was held in the Library, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin on Thursday, 24th November, 1955. The President, Mr. Thomas A. O'Reilly, took the Cnair. The notice convening the meeting was taken as read. Tne minutes of the Ordinary General Meeting of the Society held on i3th May, 1955 and the Special General Meeting held on I3th May, 1955 and ist June, 195 5 were read, confirmed and signed. Mr. Desmond Moran moved and Mr. Eunan McCarron seconded the adoption of the audited accounts and balance sheet. The motion was adopted and the President signed the balance sheet. Messrs. Kevans & Sons were re-appointed as the Society's auditors. The Secretary read the report of the scrutineers of the ballot for the election of the Council and provincial delegates for the year 1955-56. The report stated that for the office of provincial dele gate the following had been returned unopposed : —Ulster, Derrick M. Martin; Munster, John J. Dundon ; Leinster, Reginald J. Nolan ; Connaught, Christopher E. Callan.