The Gazette 1964/67

again jointly with the General Council of Pro vincial Solicitors and with the kind permission and co-operation of the Southern Law Association. The subjects will be the Succession Act, 1965, Landlord and Tenant, Town Planning Law and Practice. Further details will be announced later. All our members will be fully circularised in due course. The following are detqils of forthcoming lectures : — June 30th—Land Commission ' Practice r.bv. Mr. M. G. Gavagan, Chief Examiner of Titles and Public Trustee. July 28th—Criminal Law Practice by Mr. Herman Good. September 29th—Office accounts systems for Solicitors. October 27th—Insurance and Estate Duty by Mr. A. K. Burns, A.C.A., an Insurance expert. COUNTY CAVAN SOLICITORS The following are the Officers and Committee of the above Association for the year 1966/67 :-— President, George V. Maloney; Hon. Secretary and Treasurer, Patrick H. O'Doherty; Committee, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Patrick Cusack, Stephen J. Gannon, James Smith, Patrick J. O'Reilly, T. C. Vance. "THE LAW AND THE PROFITS", Mr. Patrick O'Donnell, solicitor, T.D., asked the Minister for Justice to state the actual ex penditure for the years 1939-40 and 1965-66 and the estimated expenditure for 1966-67 in respect of (1) Courts of Justice (a) total receipts from fee stamps, percentages and othe appropriations in aid, (b) total expenses (other than judical salaries and expenses), and (c) judicial salaries and expenses; and (2) Land Registry and Registry of Deeds (a) total receipts from fee stamps and other appropriations in aid, and (b) total expenses. The Minister for Justice, in reply, stated that pending the completion and audit of the Ap propriation Account for the year 1965-66, it is not possible to furnish final figures in respect of that year and approximate figures only of expenditure and receipts for that year are included in the statement.

The following is the statement: — 1. Courts

1939/40 1965/66 1966/67

(a)

Receipts stamps,

from

fee

percentages

£

£

£

and appropri ations in aid of Vote 101,160 283,222 430,250 other

(b)

Expenses

(other

than

judical

salaries

and

pensions) Judicial pensions Expenses

............ 166,346 587,489 623,450

(c)

salaries

and

............

92,136 225,058 235,000

(d)

borne

on

other Votes

(estim

78,237 128,167 !25 ;(i86

ated)

...............

2. Land Registry and Registry of Deeds (a) Receipts from

fee stamps and other ap propriations in aid of Vote ...............

31,910 204,078 315,000 45,527 204,768 257,930

(b) (c)

Expenses Expenses

............

borne

on

15,462

107,838

124.567

CORRESPONDENCE SALE TO THE FORESTRY DEPARTMENT ... The following letter was received by the Society from a member : There is a matter that we would like to bring to the notice of the Council of the Law Society, and that is the practice of the Department of Lands when purchasing mountain land for reafforestation purposes of getting the Vendor to sign an agreement to sell to the Depart ment of Lands, and in such agreement accepting re sponsibility for his own costs of making title. The reason we are writing about this is that lately a client of ours entered into an Agreement with the Department of Lands to sell for the sum of £40 a piece of mountain land. He undertook to be responsible for his costs of making title. The Department of Lands were not satisfied with a straight transfer from vhe Vendor to the Minister, they required the note as to equities to be discharged, or evidence given to them to enable them discharge the note as to equities. We protested to the Department of Lands about this, and stated that having regard to the smallness of the purchase money the Minister should agree to pay our costs of making title as if we had to charge our client a proper fee for making title to the lands in question he would get very little out of his purchase money. Of course it boils down to the fact that we cannot charge him a proper fee at all, and it means that we do about 99 per cent of the work in this sale for nothing. We think that the Department should not get a Vendor to enter into a contract for the sale of any land for any purpose without giving the Vendor an opportunity of discussing the matter with his solicitor. And in fact we