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refused an interlocutory application by Messrs. Holland Bros., of Oldbury, Birmingham, for permission to be represented by a chartered surveyor, Mr. D. Cottrill, in their case against the Road Haulage Executive to be heard on April 16. The application Was made under Rule 32 (d) of the Tribunal's rules.
Mr. C. Montgomery-White, K.C.. chairman, said the Tribunal had read the statement of facts and contentions prepared by Mr. Coltrill and considered that it did not appear to display a grasp of legal points concerned in the application.
"Only in most exceptional cases should we consider allowing anyone who is not a professional advocate or one of the parties in cases to address us at all. These are matters of some complication, and legal questions arise which, with respect to any chartered surveyor, a person not versed in the law is not capable of dealing with. " In your own interest it is desirable you should be legally represented in the court," he said..
Mr. Montgomery-White told Mr. Horace Holland that where people were A26 brought before the Tribunal, they were not damnified by costs. The Tribunal confirmed agreed terms of compensation amounting to £21,303 for Liss Transport, Ltd., Liss, Hants, under Section 47 of the Transport Act, 1947.
The total compensation payable is £35,553, including £14,250 which the Tribunal decided in July, 1950, was the value of freehold property at Hill Brow, Liss, Hants.
Slim. SUBSIDIES FOR
THE Dail recently voted Coras Iompair Eireann, the Irish Republic's equivalent of the London Transport Executive, a non-repayable grant of £980,000 to assist in meeting losses. With an advance of £433,000 for the payment of interest on guaranteed transport stock, C.I.E. has received altogether £1,413,000 in subsidies.
Passenger fares and freight charges are to be increased to meet. rising costs.
Mr. Sean Lemass said in the Dail that Sir James Milne had been employed " at considerable expense" to advise on the organization of transport, but the Government had not acted upon any recommendation that he had made.