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GAZETTE
' APRIL 1990
source materials and background
information may be obtained.
Hopefully the writer of this brief
notice may be excused for referring
to the helpful advice which William
Fulbeck (1560-1603) gave to law
students. Fulbeck was writing only
a hundred years after the intro-
duction of printing:
"Neither ought it to trouble us,
that the law books are so huge,
and large, and that there is such
an ocean of reports, and such a
preplexed confusion of opinions,
because the science itself is
short and easy to one that is
diligent, according to that
saying; Industriae omnia serva
fiunt, All things are servants to
diligence, or come at her
command, and [the law] is not to
be esteemed by the greatness or
smallness of the books, but the
goodness of their rules".
(Fulbeck's
Direction, or Pre-
parative to the Study of the Law
(1599).
Eamonn G. Hall
I R I SH COMPANY AND
PAR TNE R SH IP LAW.
(Study Taxt) [BPP (Nl)
Publishing, 1989, xxxiv + 434
pp £16.95 stg.]
The publishers state that
Irish
Company and Partnership Law
is a
manual designed to equip the
reader to meet the challenge of the
subject and to achieve success at
degree or professional level. The
publishers acknowledge the contri-
bution of Gerard McCormack, BCL,
LLM (NUI), Barrister, lecturer in the
Faculty of Law, Universtiy of
Southampton, who acted as
general editor of the text, David N.
N. Tomkin, MPhil, PhD, lecturer in
Company Law at Dublin City Uni-
versity and a consultant solicitor,
and Máire Whelan, BA, LLB (NUI),
LLM (Lond), Barrister, former chair-
person of FLAC (Free Legal Advice
Centres) who is a practising bar-
rister in Dublin.
The relevant syllabi of a number
of professional bodies are set out
before the main text together with
a commentary, where appropriate,
and a review of past examination
papers. The syllabi covered ralate to
the Institute of Chartered Account-
ants in Ireland, the Chartered
Association of Certified Account-
ants, the Chartered Institute of
Management Accountants, the In-
stitute of Chartered Secretaries and
Administrators, the Institute of
Certified Public Accountants in
Ireland and the Institute of
Accounting Technicians in Ireland.
The syllabi of the professional law
schools in Ireland are not included.
- There are references in the text
to both Irish and UK decisions as
well as to decisions in cases from
other jurisdictions. The law is
stated as of December 1989. The
law as stated in the manual is
divided into six parts and twenty-
eight chapers: part A deals with
company formation and records;
part B relates to share and loan
capital; part C is concerned with
the management and administra-
tion of a company; part D relates to
company reconstructions, take-
overs and mergers; part E deals
with liquidation and dissolution and
part F relates to partnership. An
index of cases and a general index
are also provided. The year of the
decided case is cited but no refer-
ence is made to where the case is
reported. This omission is regretted
by the writer of this notice.
The manual, written in a lucid
and attractive style, does provide a
comprehensive coverage of topics
examined by the professional
accounting bodies in their company
law paper. This work was not
intended for practitioners. Yet the
manual is a useful aide-mémoire for
anyone interested in company law.
Eamonn G Hall
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