The Gazette 1955-58

APRIL, 1956

Vol. 49 No. 10

THE GAZETTE of the INCORPORATED LAW SOCIETY OF IRELAND

Secrttarj ERIC A. PLUNKETT

PrttidiHt DERMOT P. SHAW

Vice-Pretidentt RALPH J. WALKER GEORGE G. OVEREND

FOR CIRCULATION AMONG MEMBERS

MEETING OF THE COUNCIL. MARCH ZZND : The President in the Chair. Also present Messrs. George G. Overend, Ralph J. Walker, Vice-Presidents, Francis J. Lanigan, James R. Quirke, John R. Halpin, Derrick M. Martin, Niall Gaffhey, James J. O'Connor, Joseph P. Tyrrell, Peter E. O'Connell, William J. Norman, C. E. Callan, P. R. Boyd, John J. Nash, Joseph Barrett, Reginald Nolan, R. McD. Taylor, Thomas A. O'Reilly, Cornelius J. Daly, Patrick F. O'Reilly, Desmond J. Collins, Desmond J. Mayne, John Carrigan, John B. Jermyn. The following was among the business transacted: Statute of Limitations Bill, 1955. THE Council considered a report from a committee stating that the Bill had been examined by the Society's examiners and lecturers who had sent in reports which had been forwarded to the Depart ment of Justice. Solicitors and Auctioneers. A COMMITTEE reported that representations had been received from a bar association about alleged

interference by auctioneers between solicitor and client with the object of diverting or directing clients to particular solicitors. By direction of the Committee the Secretary had sent a circular to the bar associations asking for their observations. Change of Solicitors. PROVISION for costs of former solicitor. The Council adopted a report from a Committee stating that there is no general or universal rule whereby a solicitor should not act for a client in business where the client has been represented by another solicitor unless provision is made by the client for payment of the other solicitors' costs. ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING. AN ordinary general meeting of the Society will be held in the Library, Solicitors' Buildings, Four Courts, Dublin, on Thursday, loth May, 1956, at 2.30 o'clock. CALENDAR AND LAW DIRECTORY, 1956. THE Calendar is on sale at the Society's office. Price io/-, post free zo/iod.