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(a) £2,700 or 95 per cent, of the value of the
house
excluding
from
the
value
the
amount of any grant under any enacte-
ment, whichever is the less or,
(b) where the house is situated in the County
of Dublin or
the County boroughs of
Dublin, Cork, Limerick or Waterford or
the boroughs of Dunlaoghaire or Galway-
£3,000 or 95 per cent or the value of the
house
excluding
from
that value
the
amount of any grant under any enacte-
ment whichever is the less.
Where, however, the borrower surrenders to a
housing authority a tenancy of a dwelling pro
vided by that housing Authority a loan of up to
99 per cent can be granted.
LISTEN AND LEARN
"Can
I
have
my
transistor
radio
back,
p-l-e-a-s-e ?
The terrible trio, Tort, Contract and Real Pro
perty of the Society's First Law Examination are
the subjects covered in two integrated series on
English Law, one on B.B.C.
1
(Television) and
the other on Radio 3. The series are designed
primarily for students of law proceeding for the
Law Society's Part One examination in England
but indications are that they may be an invalu
able aid to students proceeding for this Society's
First
Law
examination,
notwithstanding
the
differences in Irish and English law. The series
do not purport
to be a
full course but are
designed to assist students to make better use of
material given to them in lectures or in corres
pondence courses.
There will be ten programmes on both radio
and
television. Each week
the
television pro
gramme will examine aspects of key areas and
radio will go into various points in greater detail.
The B.B.C. 1
series will be on Sundays at 11.30
a.m. starting on the 6th October and the radio
3 series will be at 6.30 p.m. on Thursdays starting
on the 10th October. There will be an intro
ductory programme for lecturers and students on
Thursday 3rd October. An English Law Guide
will be available from BBC Publications and will
contain an outline of all programme contents in
cluding references to cases and judgments cited.
While designed primarily for the student it is
anticipated that the standard and the content will
be such as to make it of considerable interest to
practitioners. In particular the Contract and Tort
programme should constitute a very worthwhile
refresher course and will enable the practitioner
to become more aware of the full implications of
recent developments in these branches of law.
The series offers an opportunity that no First
Law candidate should miss and if you have an
apprentice in your office you should draw his
attention to them. The solicitor should beg, bor
row and if necessary steal his daughter's tran-
sister radio for Thursday evenings. He will be
more than compensated for the domestic dishar
mony that may ensue when he comes face to face
with that terrible client who by accident or by ,
design
has
listened in to the series.
OMBUDSMEN FOR INDUSTRY?
Professor K. W. Wedderburn, Sir Ernest Cassells,
Professor of Commercial Law at
the London
School of Economics referred to the possibility of
the appointment of ombudsmen
for
industry
when the Report of the Royal Commission on
Trade Unions and Employer Associations is pre
sented. Professor Wedderburn was addressing the
Irish Society of Labour Law and Social Legis
lation, at a meeting in the Clarence Hotel earlier
this year. The Professor spoke under the following
five headings :
Industrial Employment
Professor Wedderburn said that in the 1960's
statutes had begun
to impinge directly in
the
form of minimum standards in governing con
tracts with the industrial worker. It was now
expected that the Commission on Trade Unions
and Employer Associations would call for legis
lation on unjust and arbitrary dismissal of wor
kers involving a tribunal where the worker could
challenge the justice of his dismissal. This type of
system is in use in France, and experience suggests
that a conciliation stage was essential if it was
to work. An important point is that the burden
of proof regarding the rights of the case should
rest on the employer and not on the employee.
Collective Bargaining
Professor Wedderburn stated that one of the
remarkable things about evidence to the Royal
Commission was the startling lack of information
about Employers' Associations, which often them
selves came within the definition of Trade Unions.
A suggestion was made to the Commission that
there should be compulsory registration of Trade
Unions, which would then have to comply with
certain
rules. Legal
sanctions alone, however,
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