The Gazette 1995

GAZETTE

MWH AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 1995

Irish Lawyers Fishing Club Trip

Re: Return Of Completed Building Cont rac t/ Agreements for Sale

The Conveyancing Committee has received a complaint from a member that a firm of builders operating in the Dublin area have apparently instructed its solicitors not to return the parts of the building contract and agreement for sale executed by the builder/vendor to the purchasers solicitors until the closing. Such a practice is clearly unacceptable. A solicitor acting for a builder/vendor who receives such instructions from his client should firstly advise his client that this practice is deemed unacceptable by the Conveyancing Committee and if the client persists in instructing the solicitor not to return completed contracts until the closing then the builder/vendor's solicitors is under an obligation to advise the purchasers solicitors when sending out the building agreement and contract for sale, that these documents will not be returned completed by the j builder/vendor until the closing date. A solicitor for a purchaser is in considerable difficulty in preparing a certificate of title for a lending

Enjoying

themselves

on the Lawyers

Fishing Club weekend

were, front

row

l-r: Simon McAleese,

James Orange, Robert Ramsey and John Purcell; back

row

l-r: Stephen

Beverley,

James St. John Dundon,

Michael

O'Byrne,

Patrick

Molloy,

Robert Mathisson,

Garnet Orange and Barry

Segrave.

this trip), Jim Orange (Dublin) and Peter Matthison (UK). Another beautiful meal at Enniscoe followed. Guest of the Club was Barry Segrave who did such a fine job looking after all the anglers. Wine flowed freely. Prizes were presented with Messrs. Molloy and Beverley taking best of Irish and UK respectively and Robert Ramsey following in third place. Speeches were delivered with great aplomb with much thanks and praise for both food and fishing. Noted Galway bon viveur and raconteur Paddy Daly put in a surprise late appearance and joined with gusto in the magnificent repast. Messrs. Dundon and McAleese were elected to form next years Committee. Roll on May 1996!

This year's Irish Lawyers Fishing Club Pilgrimage to the West took place from the 18 to the 21 of May. Ten hardy, perhaps foolhardy, souls ventured forth again to do battle in search of the elusive brown trout of Loch Conn. The group met at Hineys Pub in Crossmolina. Most of the resulting hangovers had dissipated by lunchtime the following day and by Friday evening Stephen Beverley and Robert Ramsey (both UK) had landed seven fish, keeping two while Patrick Molloy (Dublin) kept the Irish flag flying with two fine fish of about a pound and a half each. Despite massive amounts of freely rising trout, the rest of the group had little luck with only James St. John Dundon (Dublin) landing and returning a small fish. A splendid meal at Susan Kellett's, Enniscoe House rounded off the day. Saturday saw an altogether more determined group take to the water. At the end of the day, Michael O'Byrne (Kells) had landed a cracking fish of two and a half pounds while James St. John Dundon and Simon McAleese (Dublin) had kept three fish. Garnet Orange had a good trout of about a pound and Messrs. Beverley and Ramsey had a superb day landing ten fish, keeping six and missing literally scores of others. Gallantly fighting a rear guard action were John Purcell (Cork - a former champion on

institution if that solicitor is not in possession of parts of the contract completed by the builder/vendor.

Conveyancing

Committee

THE SICK AND INDIGENT ROOMKEEPERS'

Michael O'Byrne Irish Lawyers Fishing

Club

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