Where a solicitor who has acted for a party in proceedings and has died, \u00a0become bankrupt, cannot be found, \u00a0has failed to take out a practising certificate, \u00a0been struck off or has ceased to act for the party and the party has not given a notice of change of solicitor or notice of intention to act in person, any other party to the proceedings or the solicitor who has ceased to act may on notice to be served on the first party, personally or by letter addressed to his last-known place of residence, unless the Court otherwise directs, apply to the Court for an order declaring that the solicitor has ceased to be the solicitor acting for the party and the Court may make an order accordingly.<\/p>\n
Where such an order has been made, the party or the solicitor who applied for it shall immediately give notice to the same effect as the order and the above provisions for filing and service shall apply, with the necessary modifications, subject to any direction as to service on the first party. Where the order is made on the application of a solicitor, the solicitor shall, subject to the provisions of the rules be considered solicitor of the party to the final conclusion of the proceedings unless and until he has complied with the above provisions as to change of solicitor.<\/p>\n
If the first party does not appoint another solicitor or give an address for service as is required of a party acting in person, any documents in respect of which personal service is not requisite may be served on the said party by being filed with a proper officer of the Court.<\/p>\n\n
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High Court Summons The Rules of the Superior Courts specify the procedures for the commencement of litigation.\u00a0 In broad terms, proceedings are commenced by a summons, petition or originating motion.\u00a0 Most substantial proceedings are initiated by a summons. The summons is the successor of the writs that existed for many centuries prior to Irish Independence.\u00a0 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[314],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/legalblog.ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}