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Acts Passed by the Oireachtas in 1975
1. Social Welfare Act
26 March, 1975
2. Defence Forces (Pensions) (Amendment)
Act
2April, 1975
3. Law Reform Commission Act
16 April, 1975
4. Trade Union Act
22 April, 1975
5. Land Bond Act
5 May, 1975
6. Finance Act
14 May, 1975
7. Agricultural Workers (Holidays)
(Amendment) Act
21 May, 1975
8. Social Welfare (Pay-related Benefit)
Act
31 May, 1975
9. Air Navigation and Transport Act
19 June, 1975
10. Restricted Licences Conversion Fund
Act
23 June, 1975
11. Racing Board and Racecourses
(Amendment) Act
24 June, 1975
12. Court of Justice of the European
Communities (Perjury) Act
24 June, 1975
13. Appropriation Act
9 July, 1975
14. Local Authorities (Traffic Wardens)
Act, 1975
12 July, 1975
15. Restrictive Practices (Confirmation of
Order) Act
16 July, 1975
16. Industrial Development Act, 1975
21 July, 1975
17. Agricultural Credit Act, 1975
29 July, 1975
18. Gaeltacht Industries (Amendment)
Act, 1975
29 July, 1975
19. Finance (No. 2) Act, 1975
30 July, 1975
20 Capital Gains Tax Act, 1975
5 August, 1975
21. Air Navigation and Transport (No. 2)
Act
5August, 1975
22. Turf Development Act
5 August, 1975
23. Employment Premium Act
6 August, 1975
24. Nitrigin Eireann Teoranta Act
11 August, 1975
25. Wealth Tax Act, 1975
16 August, 1975
26. Tourist Traffic Act, 1975
3 December, 1975
27. Regulation of Banks (Remuneration and
Conditions of Employment) Act, 1975
11 December, 1975
Reception for Mr. J. S. R. Cole, Q.C.
A reception was held by the recently-elected Presi-
dent, Mr. P. C. Moore, on Thursday, 11th December
1975, in the Council Chamber of the Law Society on
the occasion of the launching of the book
(Irish) Cases
on Criminal Law
by Mr. J. S R. Cole, Q.C., Senior
Lecturer in Law, Trinity College, Dublin.
Mr. Walter Beatty, Chairman of the Public Relations
Committee, introduced the speakers. District Justice
Herman
Good
then said :
I was privileged to have been given the opportunity
of reading the manuscript of the publication of Professor
Cole's book entitled
Cases in Criminal Law.
I read
through the lengthy and voluminous pages of the script
and I must confess it took me well over a week to
digest all the material and cases selected and collated
by him.
I was indeed most impressed with the manner in
which th's formidable task was undertaken and accom-
plished by him and so well indexed and presented by
the Professor that he is therefore in my humble view, to
be congratulated on his achievement to which he must
have devoted considerably energy, research and meti-
culous study. Speaking for myself as a Justice of the
District Court, and as a former solicitor who practised
for nearly forty years in Dublin engaged in literally
thousands of criminal cases as an advocate, I have no
hesitation in saying that Professor Cole's book is of the
highest merit calling for the highest praise. There has
been a dearth of legal text books on Criminal Law in
recent years and although this book is not a text book
—it is a reference book containing carefully and well-
selected cases covering a wide field of subjects on the
criminal side in all of which important decisions were
made in the High and Supreme Courts of this country.
For this reason alone, the book must prove to be a valu-
able contribution to the history of the Criminal Law in
the Republic of Ireland.A copy of this book should
be on the shelf in the study of every law student
whether he be a solicitor's apprentice or Bar student.
In fact I go further and say that a copy of this book
would be an invaluable addition to libraries of prac-
tising solicitors, barristers and even of the members of
the judiciary. In my considered opinion, this work is
"a job well done" and the Council of the Incorporated
Law Society are also to be congratulated on their fore-
sight in sponsoring the publication of this volume of
Cases on Criminal Law
and I express the hope that all
those interested in the subject will avail of the oppor-
tunity of having a copy in their keeping.
One final observation I would like to make—the
author has another object in mind and I wholeheartedly
agree with him in that the present-day education theory
leans very much towards "case book" teaching and less
towards the "text book
1
" technique. If this be the right
approach, then works of this kind in other fields of law
become more and more important in the legal educa-
tional system.
The President,
Mr. Moore,
congratulated Mr. Cole
on his wide erudition and research.
Mr. Cole
thanked
the Law Society for sponsoring the work and Eagle
Press Ltd for printing and publishing the book.
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