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the High Court for appointment to the Com mittee. Professional Privilege A member of the Society who acted for a client accepted a £5 note in discharge of certain costs. It transpired later that this particular £5 note had been stolen from a person employed in the same premises as the client. The note had been marked with a particular dye and the Gardai were in a position to identify it. It was traced to mem ber's office and member was asked by the Gardai to make a statement. The Council stated, on a request for guidance that member must plead privilege. He should not give any statement to the Gardai or any person without the client's consent. He must obey any ruling of the Court on the question of privilege. Branch office The Council did not approve of a proposal by a member to publish a press notice that he would be available to clients at a branch office on certain days. The existing ruling of the Council that press notices concerning branch offices should not be published was maintained. May 14th The President in the chair also present: Messrs. Brendan McGra Thomas V. O'Connor, Francis J. Lanigan, John ^rrigan, Ralph J. Walker, Thomas Jackson, John K. Coakley, Thomas J. Fitzpatrick, Patrick Noonan, James W. O'Don- ovan, William A. Osborne, Joseph L. Dundon, Peter E. O'Connell, Peter D. M. Prentice, Gerald Hickey, Norman, T. J. Spendlove, Senator J. J. Nash, Gerard M. Doyle, Desmond Moran, Patrick F. O'Donnell, Christopher Hogan, Walter Beatty, W. B. Alien, Mrs. Moya Quinlan, Rory O'Connor, Humphrey P. Kelliher, Bruce St. J. Blake, John O'Meara, Eunan McCarron, Augustus Cullen, D. R. Pigot, P. C. Moore, Robert McD. Taylor. The following was among the business trans acted. Schedule 2 costs On a report from the Secretary it was decided to make an application to the statutory body under

the Solicitors Remuneration Act 1881 the "new Schedule 2" system which has been in operation in England since 1953. A special committee was appointed to draft the application. Builders' advertisments The Council disapproved of an advertisement published by builders in Dublin including a state ment that "all fees are included in this price". The Secretary was directed to write to the solicitors for the builders concerned. Counsel appearing without Solicitor On representations received by a local bar association, the Council directed the Secretary to write to the Secretary of the Bar Council pointing out that it is contrary to professional practice for counsel to appear in a local court unaccompanied by his instructing solicitor or a representative from the solicitor's office. Administration bond—change of solicitor A member who acted for an administatrix for whom he had obtained an insurance company's bond asked for guidance as to the position where the administatrix terminated her instructions during the administration. The Council stated that member would be entitled to notify the insurance company that the retainer had been discharged. Building contracts—restrictive provision The Council stated that they viewed with con cern the increase in the number of cases in which a solicitor acting for a builder furnishes a building contract engrossed and ready for signature and refuses to consider any alteration. The Council strongly disapprove of this practice. BOOK REVIEW Notes of Irish Cases (1959-1968). compiled by Edward F. Ryan, 8 vo. Pp. XV — 94 — Cork U.P, 1970, 25/-. This is the second volume of Notes of Irish cases v/hich Professor Ryan has comoiled. The for the introduction of