The Gazette 1974

CORRESPONDENCE

Estate Duty Office Require Solicitors' Co -operation The Estate Duty Office informed the Society that % provisional pre-grant system of assessing Estate Duties | s progressing relatively smoothly, but that co-operation lS required from the profession in order to see that busin eSS can be conducted without the re-occurance of delay 5 - The following two points were stressed: (1) Solicitors are requested to send Schedules ets by post or to leave them with the officials in Estate Duty Office and not to insist upon their beinj? immediately assessed. Most cases are nowadays dealt w ,tfl within two days and posted back to the solicitors c° n * cerned. However, officials say that personal callers ten" to reduce the amount of work done by staff. (2) If solicitors completed the Schedule of Assets a®

C O N F E R E N C E—C OM P U T E RS AND T H E LAW De ar Mr. Gavan -Du f f y, T h e Society for Computers and Law Limited is to hold a conference on Computers and Law in Ox f o rd over the weekend 27 to 29 September 1974. T h e conference will be open to all people both in the United Kingdom and abroad who are interested in computers and law, and in particular we hope to have a large number of British lawyers present. T h e conference does not pre- suppose any prior knowledge of the topic, though we hope there will be plenty of information that will be of interest to both the ordinary practising lawyers and the computer experts. T h e emphasis will be on working, practical systems, and the speakers will deal with infor- mation retrieval, legislative and government systems, and other subsidiary applications for lawyers. I should be grateful if you could find some room to give some publicity to this conference, and in any case if you are interested, make a note of the date. As soon as the speakers list is complete and other details avail- able I shall be informing you. Richard Morgan. Publicity Officer Depa r tment of Social Welfare, Dublin 1. 30th May 1974 De ar Mr. Ivers, With further reference to your recent letter regarding the general question of assignments of land as raised by you, I wish to let you know that legal transfers which have been executed and stamped are being accepted in the assessment of means for old age pension purposes. Brendan Corish. Minister for Social Welfare T H E DUBL IN S O L I C I T ORS BAR AS SOC I AT I ON Following a recent informal discussion between repre- sentatives of the Council of the Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, the Law Agent, Dublin Corporation, and the County Solicitor, Dublin County Council, it is pro- posed to prepare a memo r a n d um for submission to the legal departments of both authorities setting out the main sources of difficulty encountered by practitioners and if possible, suggesting means whereby the work of the offices of the two authorities and of practitioners generally can be co-ordinated to eliminate or at least minimise such difficulties which frequently cause delay injurious to the interests of clients T h e Council requests solicitors to furnish d a ta and recommendations to assist in the preparation of the proposed memo r a n d um to the undersigned as soon as conveniently possible. Andrew F. Smyth Hon. Secretary, Dublin Solicitors Bar Association, 1 Up p er Ely Place, Dublin 2.

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