The Gazette 1972

The Law Society's Digest

fourth (Cumulative) Supplement to Volume 1

The Fourth (Cumulative) Supplement to Volume 1 on

Conveyancing Practice and Costs" (1954) of

The Law

Society's Digest

has now been published and copies are

available from the Accounts Department at the Law

Society's Hall, Chancery Lane, London WC2, price £1.

ach, including postage.

This Supplement contains, as well as the contents of

the previous Supplement, over fifty additional epitomes

of case law and opinions of the Council, a new Part

j°r Registered Land Conveyancing Practice, a list of

ocal law societies and associations and their honorary

secretaries and many additions to the list of articles and

practice notes published in the

Gazette.

The Supplement is necessarily incomplete without a

Py of Volume 1 of

The Law Society's Digest,

which

contains 1,662 epitomes of case law and opinions of the

Council, together with copies of the Remuneration

Orders, the relevant Solicitors' Practice Rules and a list

of articles and practice notes on non-contentious mat-

ters published in the

Gazette

going back to 1937. Copies

of Volume 1 are still available at the original price of

£1.25, including postage.

Copies of the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1970

and the Solicitors' Remuneration (Registered Land)

Order 1970 will be found in the January issue of the

English

Gazette

at pp. 2-5. Those Orders could not be

included in this Supplement, as it went to press before

they were published.

The principal changes necessary to the Opinions of

the Council contained in Volume 1 of the Digest conse-

quent upon those Orders are as follows :

(a) delete Opinion No. 1045, having regard to par. 7

of the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1970;

(b) amend Opinion No. 1256 so that the lessee's

solicitors' charges are expressed as one half of the

lessor's solicitors' charges;

par. 4 of the 1970 Remuneration Orders.

Famous Lawyer leaves South Africa

South Africa's most famous lawyer, Mr. Joel Carlson,

^ho made his formidable reputation defending Africans

political trials, quietly left the country this week and

now in London, it was disclosed yesterday.

Mr. Carlson (45) left the airport at Johannesburg,

^here his wife and children are still living. His South

^Jnan passport was seized by the police in June 1969

^thout explanation and subsequent attempts to have

returned failed. But Mr. Carlson used a British pass-

Port, which he did not surrender, for his departure.

Mr. Carlson's wife told reporters that her husband

nad left on Monday and flown to London, where he

^vould stay for a while before taking up a senior fellow-

Up at a New York university. The fellowship was for

one year, but she did not know whether he would return

to South Africa when it expired. "I have made no

ns,' she said. "The children and I are staying here

Until we hear from Joel what he wants to do."

Mr. Carlson has practised as a lawyer for fifteen

Years, and has for several years been the South African

presentative of the International Commission of

Jurists. He has defended Africans held under the Sup-

pression of Communism Act and the Terrorism Act,

^eluding the twenty-two Africans who were acquitted

iter two lengthy trials last year.

. For South Africa's white liberal minority, Mr. Carlson

j l

a n

outstanding hero whose courage is widely admired.

adventures during his career read like the script of

of those American television serials about lawyers

for justice against fearful odds.

, He has been sent bombs through the post. His office

been shot up. He has frequently been threatened

7 telephone and poison pen letter. His car has been

upon. A petrol bomb was thrown at his house.

There have been so many such incidents in recent

s, including a tiny explosive device in a copy of

he Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung,

that it soon

became clear that he had become the victim of a

planned harrassment campaign, designed to frighten

rather than to maim.

Mr. Carlson, who has also been the South African

representative of the International Press Institute, put

up with the harrassment for more than four years. He

has now left. He will surprise many people if he ever

comes back.

Times Service

"THE LAW OF STAMP DUTIES"

Second Edition

The second edition of

The Law of Stamp Duties

becomes necessary by reason of the change-over to

decimal currency and the measure of rational-

isation in the stamp duty code introduced by the

Finance Act, 1970. Existing law only is detailed

in this edition. Repealed sections are omitted and

where subsequent legislation has amended the

stamp duty law the sections appear as amended.

The volume is in loose-leaf form. Amending

leaves will be published so that it may be kept

up-to-date. By reason of the more compact com-

pilation of the material it has been possible to

publish the second edition at a much lower cost

than the first edition.

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