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furnishing bills of costs

in contentious and

non-contentious matters.

Standardisation of the common clauses

agreements (as distinct from the special stipulations

as to title) and their adoption by the profession

under copyright by the Law Society.

A uniform size for deeds, Court forms and paper

used in solicitors' offices for notices, affidavits and

briefs which would be suitable for filing, photo

copying, etc.

The extension by solicitors to colleagues by

mutual arrangement of facilities with a view to

saving unnecessary copying of documents. The

best known example is the practice of furnishing

a carbon copy of requisitions on title for use by

the vendor's solicitor. With the advent of modern

typewriters capable of producing upwards of six

carbon copies at a time such facilities might be

extended to the pooling of resources in litigation

that each solicitor by agreement with his

opposite number would supply

the requisite

number of extra copies of documents originating

in his own office.

As regards the matters under head 2, it appears

to the Council that the Rules of Court and practices

in various Government offices ought to be amended

with a view to avoiding the necessity of personal

attendance in matters which could be dealt with

quite satisfactorily by the use of the telephone and

the postal service. Examples are :

The extension by the Revenue Commissioners

of facilities for transmission of deeds by post to

Dublin Castle for stamping. These facilities are

now available to country solicitors but have not

been extended to Dublin.

The substitution of adhesive for impressed

stamps in documents filed in the High Court.

The amendment of the Rules of Court to provide

for the filing and issue of summonses, pleadings

and other documents by registered post instead

of personal attendance.

The service of all documents issuing from the

Courts by registered post instead of personal

service where the document is to be served on

a solicitor on record for the other party.

The transmission of deeds and memorials by

registered post to the Registry of Deeds for

registration.

The committee

invites suggestions from Bar

Associations and individual practitioners on the

matters within

their

terms of reference.

suggestion will be rejected merely because it seems

revolutionary or unusual.

The matter is rather

urgent as the Superior Courts Rules Committee is

at present engaged in the final revision of the new

rules which will be substituted for the Rules of

The Supreme Court 1903. The Committee wish to

submit a report to the Rules Committee before the

new rules have been finally settled.

LIST OF LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS

as at ist March,

1960

A.—BOOKS PURCHASED

All England Law Reports—Index,

1957-58 ;

and

(Noter-Up),

1936-58 ; Alien (Sir Carleton Kemp)—

The Queen's Peace,

1953 ;

Annual Practice,

Vol. I,

1959 and Vol. II, 1958 ; Anson—

Law of Contract,

zist Edn., 1959; Archbold—

Criminal Practice and

Pleading,

34th Edn., 1959.

Barker and Halberstam—

The Formation of Private

Companies,

1959; Blyth—

Analysis of Snell's Equity,

I4th Edn., 1929; Bowstead—

"Law of Agency,

izth

Edn., 1959; Butterworth—

Costs Handbook,

1960.

Catholic Directory

(England), 1960; Chislett—

Affiliation Proceedings,

1959;

Criminal Case and

Comment,

1959;

Current Law

(Bound Volume),

1958 ;

Current Law Citator,

1947-1958.

Deane & Spurling—

Elements of Conveyancing,

3rd Edn., 1920; Delany—

Law of Charities

Ireland,

1956 (Replacement); Deale—

Law of Land

lord and Tenant,

1953 (Replacement); Devlln—

The

Criminal Prosecution in England,

1960;

English and

Empire Digests—

Replacement Volumes—Vols. 4

and

(Bankruptcy); Vol. 28

(Income Tax to

Injunction) ; Fair Trade Commission—

dth Annual

Report,

1958 ; Fifoot—

Judge and Jurist in the Reign

of Victoria,

1959; Ford—

Unincorporated Non-Profit

Associations,

1959; Franks—

Limitation of Actions,

1959.

Gale—

Law of Easements,

i3th Edn., 1959 (Two

Copies) ;

Glanville-Williams—

Learning

the Law,

6th Edn., 1957 ; Glanville-Williams—

The Proof of

Guilt,

2nd Edn., 1958; Goodhart—

English Law

and

the Moral Law,

1955 ;

Halsbury—

Laws of

England, Simonds Edition, Third Cumulative Supplement,

1959; Halsbury—

Laws of England, Third Edition,

Vol. 26

(Medicine to Mistake) ;

Vol. 27

(Money to

National Insurance);

Vol. 28

(Negligence to Partnership);

Vol.

(Pleading

to Public Authorities'),

1959;

Hensey—

The Health Services ofIreland,

1959 ; Hughes-

Parry—

The Sanctity of Contracts in English Law,

1959 ;

Hudson—

Law of'Building Contracts,

8th Edn., 1959.

International Bar Association,

-jth

Conference

Report,

Cologne, July, 1958 ;

Incorporated Law

Society of Northern Ireland Handbook,

1959 ; Indermaur

—

Manual of Practice,

loth Edn., 1919;

Ireland—

Companies,

-th Annual Report,

1958 ; Ireland—

Ddil

Eireann—Index to Debates

(1948-54) ;

Ireland—

Index

to Statutes

(1922-1958); Ireland—

Finance Accounts,