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tary control and its implementation in mem
ber States.
3.
Foreign and Regional Relations in the
Community.
The effect of
the Community on foreign
relations and on special relations between
member States and certain non-member States
or dependencies.
4.
Specific Areas of Community Law.
Competition law, transport, agriculture and
establishment.
In this way the special difficulties of each of
the candidate countries
in
these areas would
receive urgent investigation as a whole, and the
results of such investigations would be presented
clearly to the Community authorities.
CORRESPONDENCE
30th October 1969
TO: J. K. Waldron Esq.,
Secretary,
Committee on Court Practice & Procedure,
Four Courts,
DUBLIN 7.
Dear Sir,
I refer to the report submitted by the Council
of this Society to your committee in 1967 dealing
with the following matters:
(a) Pre.trial procedure.
(b) Agreed medical reports.
(c) Documentary evidence.
(d) Two-stage actions.
(e) Fixed date for trials in the High Court
and Circuit Court.
(f) General pleadings and statements of
claim.
(g) Service of documents by post.
(h) Modernisation of High Court pro
cedure and assimilation to procedure in
the Circuit Court.
I know that your committee has made
a report to the Minister on various
matters. I shall be obliged if you can
let me know the result of the com-
mitte's consideration of
the above
mentioned
topics
in
the Society's
memorandum and in particular items
(b), (e), (f) and (h) above.
Yours faithfully,
ERIC A. PLUNKETT,
Secretary.
10th November, 1969.
TO: Eric A. Plunkett, Esq.,
Secretary,
Incorporated Law Society of Ireland,
Solicitors' Buildings,
Four Courts,
Dublin, 7.
Dear Mr. Plunkett,
In reply to your letter of 30th ultimo seeking infor
mation as to the result of this Committee's consider
ation of certain topics mentioned in your Society's
memorandum of 1967, I am directed to inform you as
follows:
(a)
Pre-trial procedure
Recommendations were made on this topic in the
Committee's Third Interim Report entitled Jury Trial
in Civil Actions. See paragraphs 40 to 45 of this Report
which was published by the Minister for Justice on
the 29th April, 1966.
(b)
Agreed medical reports
The Committee's approval of the greater use of
agreed reports as evidence, and their recommendation
to have compulsory exchange between the parties,
before trial, of reports furnished by their respective
professional witnesses, are to be found in the part of
the Eighth Interim Report dealing with Fees of Pro
fessional Witnesses. See paragraphs 29 and 34 (5). This
Report was published on 20th March last.
(c) Documentary Evidence
This topic will be considered in the context of a
general examination of the law of evidence which is on
the Committee's list of future projects.
(d) Two-stage
actions
The suggestion of having the issues of liability
and of damages tried separately was canvassed during
the Committee's deliberations prior to the making of
the Third Interim Report. The suggestion found no
support and accordingly was not pursued. It is noted
that your memorandum
(received after
the Third
Interim Report had been published)
indicates that
your committee "can find no convincing reasons in
favour of the adoption of two-stage trials".
(e) Fixed dates for trails in High Court and Circuit
Court
In regard to trials in the Circuit Court, in para
graph 51 of the Fifth Interim Report you will find that
"The Committee unanimously recommended that cases
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