The Gazette 1983

GAZETTE

APRIL 1983

Company/Commercial Referral Service 1. Proposal

Practice Note High Court —Juty Lists

Under the existing High Court Rules, No t i ce of Discontinuance cannot be served in personal injury cases at any stage after the No t i ce of Trial has been served This may give an unrealistic indication of the number of cases in the Jury List going on for hearing been settled after No t i ce of Trial has been served Solicitors for Plaintiffs are required to write t T S i e Registrar of Jun es in the High Court Four Court. Dublin quoting the full title o f t h e c a s e, & record n i t and, if there is a Jury number available, the Jury number and stating that the case has been settled. T h e ^ t r L will then place an asterisk beside the name of the case £ the list. It should be noted that this practice d ^ s not apply to cases involving a minor, or persons in Wardship or t o b e taken into Wardship. H 0 6 The Litigation Committee recommended that this practice should be adopted in order to facilitate members ot the profession, and to give a more realistic indication of the number of cases likely to go on for hearing • H - - Safeguard | Business ^T Systems SAFEGUARD SYSTEMS IRELAND LTD. LUCAN, CO. DUBLIN. Telephone 01-282904/5. ^ Z n u ^ f l C T i l i t a te m e m b e r s > where cases have

The firms listed below are prepared to offer the benefit of their specialist Company Law expertise and/or Commercial Law expertise to clients of smaller firms. The Comp a ny Law Committee has agreed that the system should operate on the following basis. 2. Basis of System The principle upon which this system will work is that the consulting firm will not, in normal circumstances, accept from the client within three years of the completion of the consultancy assignment, any work of the type which, at the time when the consulting firm was first retained in relation to that client's affairs, was being carried out by the referring firm, without the approval of the referring firm. This will not, however be an absolute rule as obviously circumstances can arise, such as the death of a sole prac- titioner, in a practice where the client would insist on going elsewhere anyway. Un l e ss otherwise agreed with the referring firm, the consulting firm will deal directly with the client. The reason for this being that it would not be right for the consulting firm to be in a situation where the facts on which they were asked to advise were limited only to those which the referring firm gave them or if the advice was being con- v e y ed at secondhand to the client. It is not envisaged that any fee would be payable to the referring firm by the con- sultancy firm and equally the client would be responsible to the consulting firm for the latter's professional fees and outlay. The foregoing arrangement has been introduced at the request of Bar Associations. It is hoped that it will benefit the client, the smaller firm and the consulting firms. The Company Law Committee shall review the operation of the Scheme from time to time. Company/Commercial/Referral Service Acceptances I. O'Donnell, Dund on & Co., 101, O'Connell St., Limerick. 2. Dockrell Shields & Farrell, 5 1 / 5 2 Upr Fitzwilliam St., D . D . E . N o . 92. 3. A . & L. Go odbody, 31 Fitzwilliam Sq. D . D . E . No . 29. 4. Gerrard Scallan & O'Brien, Hainault Hse, 6 9 / 71 St. Stephen's Green, D . D . E . No . 19. 5. Arthur Co x & Co., 4 2 / 4 5 St. Stephen's Green. D . D . E . N o . 27. 6. Math^son Ormsby & Prentice, 2 0 Upr Merrion St. D . D . E . N o . 2. 7. Caw l ey Sheerin Wynn e, 1 /2 Upr Hatch St. D . D . E . N o . 169. 8. Ke nny Stephenson Chapman, Newt own, Waterford 9. Eugene F. Collins & Son, 61 Fitzwiliam Sq. D . D . E . N o . 25. 10. Fitzpatricks, 3 7 / 39 Fitzwilliam Sq. D . D . E. No. 13. I I . Whitney, Mo o re & Keller, 4 6 Kildare Street, D . D . E . N o . 105. 12. Ma s on, Ha y es & Curran, 6 Fitzwilliam Sq., D . D . E . N o . 11. 13. Wm. Fry & Sons, Fitzwilton House, Wilton Place. D . D . E . N o . 23.

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