The Gazette 1958-61

counsel for the solicitor. Annexed to it was a form

of proposed advertisement and a form of letter to be

sent round to correct or remove misapprehensions

which had arisen. Whatever else this document was,

it was not an undertaking given to the Court. Mr.

Schuller was not a party to the motion now before

his Lordship. His Lordship did not know in what

capacity the solicitor purported to enter into the

minute, but it was clear that he did not enter into any

obligation with the Court. How could his Lordship

commit him and his partner merely on the ground

that he happened to be a solicitor and that this

minute was signed by counsel for him personally ?

One of the distressing parts of this case was that

the solicitor's senior partner refused to allow the

firm's signature to be put on the notices or letters,

and the solicitor was left in the undesirable position

of having agreed to do certain things which he found

himself unable to do. His Lordship thought that this

motion, as it asked for the serious remedy of com

mittal to prison, was completely misconceived. The

responsibility for any wrong which was done, if

there was any, was the wrong of Mr. Schuller, the

principal for whom the firm was acting.

His Lordship could not see any ground upon

which he could make an order forcing the solicitor

or his partner to publish the "legal notices" and sign

and post the letters. It was a very unfortunate case

because the standard of conduct and good faith

which was expected of officers of the Court was very

high.

(Re Smeaton and Egerton,

The Times,

February 12,

LIST OF LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS

as at ist March

1959

A.—BOOKS PURCHASED

Best—

Law of Evidence,

1911 ;

Bowen—

Law of

Easements

^rd Edn.

1925 ; Burke (Sir J.)—

The

Landed Gentry of Ireland 4th Edn.

1958; Catholic

Directory, 1959; Charlesworth—

Law of Negligence,

Second Cumulative Supplement to $rd Edn.

1958; Cop-

inger and Skone-James—

Law of Copyright, yth Edn.,

1958; Current Law Citator, (1947-1957) ; Current

Law Yearbook, 1957 ;

Dias and Hughes—

Juris

prudence,

1957; Dice)'—

Conflict of Laws

-jth Edn.,

1958.

English and Empire Digest—

Third Cumulative Sup

plement,

1958 ;

English and Empire Digest—

(a) Re

placement Volume 2 (Agriculture to Arbitration),

(b) Replacement Volume 13 (Copyholds to County

Courts), (c) Replacement Volume 18 (Discovery of

Distress), (d) Replacement Volume 40 (Sale of Land

to Settlements) ; Forms and Precedents for Use of

Accountants, 2 vols., 1906-7; Freeman—

Law of

Rights of Way, 4th Edn.,

1958 ; Foote—

Private Inter

national Law,

1890 ; General Orders of Masters in

Chancery, 1843-1 848 ; Green—

Law of Death Duties,

4th Edn.,

1958.

Halsbury (Earl of)—

Laws of England, $rd(Simonds)

Edn ; Vol.

(Insurance to Judgments and Orders} ;

Vol.

(Juries to Landlord and Tenant) ; Vol. 2.4

(Libel and Slander to Local Government) ;

Vol.

(London Government to Mayors'1

and City of London

Courf);

1958 ; Halsbury (Earl of)—

Laws of England,

—>,rd

(Simonds) Edn.; Cumulative Supplement,

1958 ;

International Bar Association, Oslo, 1956, Confer

ence Report; Ireland—

Revenue Commissioners, $4th

Annual Report,

1956-57;

Ireland—

First Report of

Seanad Committee on Statutory Instruments ;

Ireland—

finance Accounts

1957-58 ; Ireland—

Report of Oireach-

tas Committee on Public Accounts, July

1958 ;

Irish

Catholic Directory, 1959.

Jackson—

The Law of Damages,

1934 ; Jenks—

Book

of English Law,

1928 ; Kenny, C. C. S.—

Outlines of

Criminal Law—

17th Edn., 1958; Lauterpacht—

The

Development of International Law by the International

Court,

1958;

Law List—1958;

Law Society

(London)—

Land Registry Practice

(Pamphlet), 1958 ;

Maxwell-Miller—

Irish Probate Practice,

1900 (extra

copy) ; Meriton—

Exact Abridgment of Irish Statutes

from Edward II to William III,

1724; Miles and

Knight-Dix—

In the Eyes of the Law,

1937 ; Aloriarty

—

Police Law,

1931 ; Moriarty—

Police Procedure and

Administration,

1930.

Napley and Grattan-Doyle—

Law of Auctioneer's

Remuneration,

2nd Edn., 1957; Northern Ireland

Statutes—1957; O'Sullivan and Brown—

Law of

Defamation,

1958 ; Pease and Chitty—

Law ofMarkets

and Fairs,

2nd Edn., 1958 ;

Piesse and Gilchrist-

Smith—

Elements ofDrafting,

2nd Edn., 1958 ; Powell

—

Law of Evidence,

zoth Edn., 1921 ; Read—

The

Company Director, His Powers, and Functions,

1958 ;

Russell—

The Law of Crime,

2 Vols., nth Edn., 1958.

Smith—

Criminal

Case

and

Comment,

1958 ;

Statesman's

Yearbook—1957;

Stone—

Justice's

Manual,

2 Vols., 1958 ; Treagus and Rainbird—

Butterworth''s Law of Costs,

6th Cumulative Supple

ment, 1958 ; Tristram and Coote—

Probate Practice,

3rd Supplement to loth Edn., 1958 ; Turner and

Armitage—

Cases on Criminal Law,

2nd Edn., 1958 ;

Underbill—

Law of Partnership,

7th Edn., 1958;

Vester and Gardner—

Trade Union Law and Practice,

1958.

Weekly Law Reports Index

(1953-58); Whitaker's

Almanack—1959 ; Wilson and Carmichael—

Principles

of Executorship Accounts—

3rd Edn., 1957; Wilson

and Kelly—

Principles of Irish Income Tax,

ist Supple

ment, 1958 ; Woodfall—

Law of Landlord and Tenant,

3rd Cumulative Supplement, 1958 ; Woodfall—

Law