The Gazette 1977

DECEMBER 1977

GAZE1TE

LAW SOCIETY NOTES CORRESPONDENCE

NEW NOTARY PUBLIC The Chief Justice, the Honourable T. F. O'Higgins has appointed Mr. Gerard M. Doyle, Solicitor, a Notary Public. Mr. Doyle, who is also a Commissioner for Oaths, is Senior Partner in the Firm of Rutledge, Doyle & Co., Solicitors of 50 Lower O'Connell Street, Dublin, and is a Past President of The Dublin Solicitors Bar Association and presently a Member of the Council of the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. Conditions of Sole/Requisitions on Title Regretfully, due to increases in printing costs, it is necessary to amend selling prices as follows:— Conditions of Sale

Office of the Revenue Commissioners Dublin Castle, Dublin 2. 2 December, 1977

Mr. J. J. Ivors, Director General, The Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,

A Chara, I am directed by the Revenue Commissioners to refer to previous correspondence and to the recent meeting which you attended in this office to discuss the failure of a number of solicitors to furnish the statutory returns which are required in accordance with the provisions of Section 176 of the Income Tax Act, 1976. As indicated at that meeting the results of a recent survey to ascertain the extent to which solicitors have complied with their statutory obligations in relation to the two years ended 5 April, 1977, have been disappointing. The Commissioners now have no alternative but to consider the question of instituting proceedings against defaulting solicitors for recovery of the penalties provided by law for failure to make the returns required by Section 176. However, in view of the representations made by you on behalf of those members who will now find themselves faced with such proceedings the Commissioners are prepared to defer action in the matter until after 1 February, 1978 in order to afford a further opportunity to the defaulting solicitors to comply with the obligation imposed by section 176. Cases in which the statutory returns for the two years ended 5 April, 1977, are still outstanding on 1 February, 1978, will regrettably, become the subject of penalty proceedings without further notice. It is considered that adequate warnings have already been issued to the solicitors in question by their inspectors of taxes. Mise, le meas, A. B. NÍ GHEALBHÁIN Note: The Council of the Society at its meeting on 27 March, 1975, agreed that it was not prepared to go further than had been agreed between the Society's representatives and the Chairman of the Revenue Commissioners, i.e. that information would be limited to monies paid in respect of rents, dividends, and interest on clients' accounts. FAMILY LAW CASES The Master of the High Court has kindly arranged with the Society that Family Law Cases will be specially listed for hearing by him on Wednesday morning of each week during the Court Term. The Bar is aware of and concurs in the foregoing arrangement.

Packets of 50 — £4.50. Packets of 100 — £8.00. Packets of 10 — £1.00. (Postage extra) Requisitions on Title Packets of 50 — £6.00. Packets of 100 — £1.30. (Postage extra)

Director General. 26 January, 1978.

LAW SOCIETY THREE-DAY CONFERENCE Dunloe Castle Hotel, Kfllarney

FRIDAY, 5th M A Y - SUNDAY, 7th MAY 1978

Programme subjects will include—

"The Abolition of the Scale Fee?" "Have the Courts failed the Family?" "Should Single Practitioner Offices be Abolished?" "Child Criminals?" This is not a Seminar. This is not the old Half- Yearly Meeting. This is an opportunity for the profession to express their views on important issues both legal and social.

Full programme will be circulated shortly.

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