The Gazette 1990

GAZETTE

SEPTEMBER 1990

was carried out in nineteenth

century Ireland. In his essay, Colm

Barry, Solicitor, examines the

development of the police in Dublin

from 1786 to 1840. Clare Jackson,

barrister, traces the attempt to

introduce into Ireland changes in

the rules of criminal evidence

already introduced in England,

Wales and Scotland by the

Criminal

Evidence

Act, 1898.

Finally, the

editors, Professor Paul O'Higgins

and Dr. J. McEldowney, in their

essay on Irish legal history and the

nineteenth century, consider the

contribution of Irish lawyers to the

common law in general and to law

reform in particular.

The Common Law Tradition

historical reading at its best and

most accessible. The readable style

of the authors breathes life into

historical aspects of the Common

Law in Ireland.

Eamonn G. Hall

B OOK N O T I CE

EQUAL I TY IN LAW BE TWE EN

MEN AND WOMEN IN T HE

EUROPEAN C OMMU N I T Y;

COL L EC T I ON OF T E X T S ON

NA T I ONAL LAW; IRISH LAW

By Rosheen Callander, B.A.

(Econ.) (Dublin University) and

Frances Meenan, B. Comm.,

M.B.S. (N.U.I.), Solicitor

Series edited by Michel

Verwilghen, Professor at the

Faculty of Law of the

Universite catholique de

Louvain. Published by

Commission of the European

Communities.

This textbook published this year is

part of a European Community

series of textbooks (casebooks)

which will be completed in 1990.

The various Commentaries for each

Member State will also be com-

pleted shortly.

It contains the first attempt to

systematically index, select and

summarise 'key cases' from the

large body of equality case-law

which has grown up in Ireland since

1975, when the EC's first equality

Directive (on equal pay) came into

force, the key Irish legislation being

the Anti-Discrimination (Pay) Act,

1974 and the Employment Equality

Act, 1977.

Whilst in some countries,

equality case-law is still embryonic,

in Ireland it is abundant - far too

abundant to be reproduced in full.

Therefore, difficult decisions had to

bemade about what to include and

what to omit; and it is important for

readers to know the basis on which

the authors selected, from

hundreds of cases, the ones to be

included in this volume.

Generally, their approach was to

refer to all equality cases which

have come before the Irish High

Court, the Irish Supreme Court and

the European Court of Justice. As

regards the many Recommenda-

tions of Equality Officers and the

Determinations of the Labour Court

on equality cases, the authors' ap-

proach was to include at least one

(whichever seemed most signifi-

cant) on every topic that had arisen

and that seemed worthy of a

separate heading.

If a number of cases have arisen

under a particular heading, then,

usually, it was considered appropri-

ate to include one in which the

claim succeeded and one in which

it did not. There is considerable

referencing via footnotes and

citation of various other cases.

Altogether, over 150 cases have

been cited.

These texts with their attendant

commentaries will form a major

Encyclopedia of EC Employment

Equality Law. In the interim, a copy

of the casebook is available in the

Law Society Library.

The authors wrote the casebook

as Irish members of the EC's Net-

work of Experts on the Implemen-

tation of the Equality Directives.

Frances Meenan

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SO L I C I T ORS

GO L F I NG

S OC I E TY

PRES IDENTS PRIZE

(Ernest Margetson)

The Presidents Prize of the

Solicitors Golfing Society was held

at Mullingar Golf Club on Friday the

27th of July.

The results were as follows:

WI NNER:

Pat Barriscale.

44 Points.

2nd: Niall Cronin.

41 Points.

3rd: Colm Berkery.

37 Points.

12 AND UNDER:

1st: Robert Cussen.

40 Points.

2nd: Brian O'Brien.

37 Points.

12 AND OVER (Ryan Cup):

1st: Denis McSweeney.

39 Points.

2nd: Dermot Mahon.

38 Points.

OVER 30 MI LES FROM

MUL L I NGAR:

1st: Tom Flood

(last six)

37 Points.

2nd: Cyril Coyle.

37 Points.

DIRECTOR GENERALS CUP:

(Qualified five years and under)

Harry Fehily.

36 Points.

FIRST NINE:

Alan McGonigle. 20 Points.

SECOND NINE:

Frank Johnson. 22 Points.

At the Annual General Meeting

Mr. Colm Price was elected as

Captain for 1991.

Richard Bennett & WilliamJolley

were re-elected as Secretary and

Treasurer respectively.

Richard Bennett,

Hon. Secretary.

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