The Gazette 1955-58

May, 1955

Vol. 49 No. 1

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Secretary EMC A. PLUNKETT

Vice-Pretidents DESMOND J. MAYNE JOHN J. SHEIL

President THOMAS A. O'REILI.Y

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETINGS OF THE COUNCIL. APRIL 2 IST : The President in the Chair. Also present, Messrs. Desmond J. Mayne and John J. Sheil, Vice-Presidents; James J. O'Connor, John J. Nash, Peter E. O'Connell, John J. Dundon, John Maher, Edmund Hayes, Reginald J. Nolan, Charles J. Downing, John J. Horgan, John R. Halpin, Cornelius J. Daly, Ralph J. Walker, William J. Norman, George G. Overend, Dermot P. Shaw, Derrick M. Martin, Thomas Q. King, Francis J. Lanigan, Nathaniel Lacy, Desmond J. Collins, Francis Gallagher, Niall S. Gaffney, Patrick R. Boyd, John Carrigan, Henry St. J. Blake, Patrick F. O'Reilly, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Scan O'hUadhaigh, Joseph Barrett. The following was among the business transacted : Sales with loans under the Small Dwellings (Acquisition) Acts, and sales by local authorities to tenant-purchasers. THE Council considered a report from a Committee which considered the memoranda received from the Department of Local Government on the subject of costs in these matters and it was decided to list

them on the agenda for the ordinary general meeting of the Society on May izth as special business. Taxation of personal representatives' costs. Representation of beneficiaries. NINETEEN residuary legatees under a will were represented by one solicitor for the purpose of taxing the executors' costs. Two of the residuary legatees subsequently consulted another solicitor and instructed him to obtain a copy of the bill as certified from the solicitor for the personal represen– tatives who was unwilling to furnish it. They asked the opinion of the Council whether they were entitled to receive the bill for perusal and return free of charge. On a report from a Committee the Council expressed the opinion that as all the beneficiaries employed one solicitor to represent them on the taxation of the costs querists were not entitled free of charge to a copy of the bill as a voucher for the amounts claimed in the distribution account and the solicitor who appeared on the taxation cannot be compelled to furnish it. The clients would be entitled to inspect the bill at the solicitor's office. On the other hand the Council thought that the facilities ought to be given. If they were not given