120 / 262
plicitly represents the best possible combination of their
constitutional traditions to which the Court has referred.
—(Reprinted from
Common Market Law Review.)
March 1972
*
Bibliography:
Pierre Pescatore, "Les droits de l'homme et rintégration
européenne", 4 Cah.dr.europ. 1968, 629-673; German ver-
sion in (1969)
Integration,
103-136 (These articles contain
an exhaustive bibliography). A summary has been published
in (1970) A.J.I.L. 343-351 under the title " undamental
rights and freedoms in the system of the European Com-
munities".
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Note that all the sources above were published before the
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Internationale
Handelsgesellschaft
case and
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Stork
v.
High Authority,
Case 1/58,
Recueil
V, 43.
2.
Ruhrkohlen-Verkaufsgesellschaft
and others
v.
High
Auth-
ority,
Cases 36-38/59 and 40/59,
Recueil
VI, 857.'
3.
Sgarlata and others
v.
EEC Commission,
Case 40/64,
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XI, 279; [1966] C.M.L.R. 314; 3 C.M.L.Rev
Recueil
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1965-66, 91.
4.
Stauder
v.
City of Ulm,
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5.
Internationale
Handelsgesellschaft
mbH
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Vorratstelle fiir
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C.M.L.Rev. 1971, 250
et seq.
NEW DUBLIN COURTS ARE PLANNED
A new Dublin Metropolitan District Court building to
replace the present Chancery Street complex, which the
Government acknowledge as unsatisfactory and over-
crowded, is to be built on a 2£ acre site at Smithfield.
The new premises, on the site of Irish Distillers
Limited, also will house the Children's Court, ancillary
buildings, including a Garda station. The Children's
Court is at present in an upstairs room in Dublin Castle.
Finance Minister Mr. Richie Ryan has approved
plans of the Office of Public Works to hold an archi-
tectural competition for the buildings.
A statement, issued through the Government Infor-
mation Bureau last night, said the move had been taken
to meet the severe and increasing overcrowding in the
Dublin Metropolitan Courts and the unsatisfactory
condition of some of the existing Court buildings.
The new Metropolitan Court buildings would, added
the statement, represent a further large and important
State building in the capital city.
Because of the specialised nature of the new complex
and its significance as a public building, an architec-
tural competition was felt to be the most appropriate
way of securing the best possible design.
Details will be made public after arrangement for the
competition have been undertaken.
Irish Independent
(5th April 1973)
JUDGE O DALAIGH URGES WIDER
LEGAL AID
Ireland's urgent need for an all-embracing legal aid
system arose in a conversation I had yesterday with our
new Judge on the European Court, former Chief Justice
Carbhall O Dalaigh.
He pointed out that there is provision in the rules of
the European Court for granting legal aid, where a
person bringing a case before the Court needs such aid.
The present position in Irelan is that legal aid is only
granted in criminal cases upon application to a District
Justice.
Judge O Dalaigh then explained how the European
Court protects the ordinary individual. A woman far-
mer in Italy, slaughtered her cows with a view to
getting compensation under a Common Market direc-
tive. The Italian Government did not pay up and she
brought an action in the local Italian Court.
The Justice sent to Luxembourg for an interpre-
tation of the E.E.G. law and the Court found, in effect,
that the Community directives were self-executing, and
if the Italian Government had not voted the necessary
money to compensate the woman, they were in duty
bound to do so.
Free legal aid, he added, was granted to the woman
in the case.
Judge O Dalaigh's conclusion was that now govern-
ments in the E.E.G. should ensure that they had the
machinery to ensure speedy implementation of Com-
munity directives. Otherwise, he pointed out, they could
find themselves brought before the Court by either the
Commission itself for failure to comply, or by some
private national in his own country.
Irish Independent
(20th January 1973)
SOLICITORS GOLFING SOCIETY
Officers for
1973
Treasurer : David Bell.
President: Thomas V. O'Connor (President I.L.S.I.).
Outings: Thursday, 28th June 1973, for President
's
Captain : S. Victor Crawford.
Prize, at Milltown. Firday, 28th September 1973, for
Secretary : Henry N. Robinson.
Captain's Prize, at Hermitage.
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