The Gazette 1995

GAZETTE

No r t he rn I re l and Young So l i c i t o rs As s o c i a t i on Annual Con f e r ence

which emphasises that monies received in respect of undischarged outlay should be lodged to client account.

The Annual Conference of the ; Northern Ireland Young Solicitors Association was held at the Manor House Country Hotel, Killadeas, Enniskillen from Friday 24 to Sunday 26 March 1995. As always, the delegates from the "South" got a tremendous welcome and : enjoyed very generous hospitality. There were fourteen Southern delegates including Orla Coyne, Chairperson of I the Younger Members Committee and ! Gavin Buckley, Chairman of the I Society of Young Solicitors. There I were also representatives from j Belgium, France, The Netherlands, Luxembourg, England and Wales. j The lecture topics were wide ranging and included "Advocacy Skills for Solicitors" with a most entertaining | paper given by Reginald Weir Q.C. Neil Fans, a partner with Cleaver Fulton & Rankin solicitors in Belfast presented a very interesting paper titled "Regulating Risk - Environmental Issues for Lawyers".

The social activities started with a bus excursion to the local pubs in Enniskillen on Friday night. On Saturday afternoon there was a coach tour, golf, horseriding and clay pigeon shooting. This was followed by a banquet on Saturday evening which carried on well into the "wee small hours"! The entire conference was very well organised and a great time was had by all. Full credit is due to Jeremy Mills, Chairman of the NIYSA and his hardworking committee. We are sure that a number of our Northern colleagues will make the trip to the SYS Autumn Conference at Dromoland Castle on 3 - 5 November and thereby sustain the excellent relationship which has been built up over the past number of years. Long may it continue.

Practice Note - Costs Received - Undischarged outlay

Where a solicitor receives monies for undischarged outlay due to third parties (e.g. stamp duty, counsel's fees, doctor's fees, engineer's fees etc) such monies - whether solicitor and client costs, or party and party costs - represent "client's money" as defined in Regulation 1 of the Solicitors' Accounts Regulations No 2 of 1984 and should be lodged to client account pursuant to Regulation 3 thereof. The relevant payments to third parties should be effected on an expeditious basis from the client account. Where items of outlay are paid for by a solicitor who has not as yet been put in funds by the client in respect thereof, Recommended procedure for lodgments ! Where a remittance received by a solicitor includes payment both in respect of (i) undischarged outlay and (ii) solicitors fees and/or costs already paid out by the solicitor the recommended treatment is to lodge the entirety of the remittance intact to the client account. Then, (where a bill of costs or other written intimation of the amount of costs has been delivered to ; the client) a transfer may be effected | from the client account to the office account to cover the amount of the solicitor's fee received, and any outlay j which was discharged on behalf of the client from the office account and which has been recovered from the other side, or from the client. Payment to third parties for items of outlay which then remain due may be effected from the balance of monies held in the client account in respect thereof. I the payments advanced to third j parties shall be effected from the office account.

Robert Hennessy Committee Member YMC/SYS

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Joe Clancy, solicitor,

receives a presentation

of a basket of fairly traded

products

from Vivienne Cashin of 'Will Aid'. Will Aid was a fundraising agreed to write wills for free - with customers when solicitors

event held in March making a donation to

Geraldine

Clarke

Chairman Compensation Fund Committee 162

one of four charities:

Gorta, Action Aid, Oxfam and Rehab. Joe Clancy was the

solicitor who raised the most money for the

charities.