314 / 338
lending P. money and supplying him with goods he
could not recover under this head the sum of
£373 IDS. for cash lent and goods supplied.
BRIEF NOTES OF CASES
(a) Tsakiroglou
v.
Noblee Thorl G.m.b.H.—
The
House of Lords has affirmed the decision of the
Court of Appeal and held that, despite the closure
of the Suez Canal, the contract in the case was not
frustrated and that consequently the buyers were
entitled to damages.—(See (1961) 2. All E.R. 179).
(b) Plato Films Ltd.
v.
Speidel.—fhe
House of
Lords has affirmed the decision of the Court of
Appeal (see GAZETTE, Vol. 54, page 54) and held
that some paragraphs of the defence should be
struck out as
inadmissible and irrelevant.—(See
(1961) i. All E.R. 876).
(c) Attorney General (Garda Michael McGowan)
v.
Arthur Carville—
95
I.LT.R.
(1961), 41,
In this
case the Supreme Court affirmed Davitt P. on
3oth April, 1959, and held that District Justice
Lavery was entitled to dismiss on the merits a
summons charging a defendant with driving a
specified mechanically propelled vehicle without
holding a driving licence on the ground that the
onus was on the complainant to prove that the
defendant was uninsured.
(d) The State (John Cunningham)
v.
District Justice
O'Flynn.—
The judgment of the Supreme Court
given by Mr. Justice O'Dalaigh, previously noted
in the GAZETTE, Vol. 54, page 18) is now reported,
in full at page 24 of the
Irish Law Times Reports
1961, Vol. 95.—Members will recollect that this
case dealt with the correct form of summons in the
District Court.
(e) Incorporated Law Society
v.
Richard G. Browne.—
In this case, an auctioneer had filled in the blank
spaces of a contract for sale, including the names of
the owners of the property, the intending purchaser,
a description of the property, the nature of the title
thereto, that it was being sold with vacant possession,
and the amount of the offer made and of the deposit
paid. District Justice Burke in Galway District
Court on 7th April, 1960, held that the auctioneer
was an " unqualified person " within Section 3 (i)
of the Solicitors Act, 1954, that he had performed
a legal transaction specifically reserved to solicitors,
fined him io/- and ordered him to pay £50 costs.
The case is now reported in 95
I.L.T.R.
(1961) at
page 7.
LIBRARY ACQUISITIONS
B._DONATIONS AND EXCHANGES
CANADIAN EMBASSY, DUBLIN—
Canada Law Reports
1959 and 1960.
.
.
MISCELLANEOUS
DONATIONS—Coldridge
and
Hawksford,
Law of Gambling,
1913 ; Fitzgibbon and
Johnston,
Law of Local Government in Ireland,
1899 ;
Australian and New Zealand Law List,
1959;
Ontario
Mining Court Cases,
Vol. Ill—1918-1960, ed. D. G.
Horan ;
Commission of Inquiry into the Duties, Salaries
and Emoluments of the Officers, Clerks and Ministers of
Justice in Temporal and Ecclesiastical Courts in Ireland,
7 Vols., 21 Reports, 1816-1831 ;
Report of Fry
Royal Commission of Inquiry on Trinity College, Dublin,
1907.
COUNCIL OF EUROPE, STRASBOURG—
Council of
Europe News,
1951-1960, bound
together;
18
European Conventions,
bound together (1949-1960) ;
Council of Europe Orders of the Day,
195 8-60 ;
Research
(Quarterly), Nos. 55-59 (1960) ;
Forward in Europe
(1959-60);
Handbook of European Organisations,
1956;
The European Conventions,
1956 ;
Juvenile
Delinquency in Post-War Europe,
1960.
MISCELLANEOUS EXCHANGES—Edinburgh Uni
versity,
Calendar,
1960-61 ;
Glasgow University,
Calendar,
1960-61 ; Manchester University,
Calendar,
1959-60 ; National University of Ireland,
Calendar,
1960 ;
International Law List,
1961 ; Dublin Uni
versity
(Trinity College),
Calendar,
1960-61 ;
Incorporated Law Society,
Calendar,
1961 ;
New
South Wales Law Almanack,
1960 and 1961 ; Queen's
University, Belfast,
Calendar,
1960-61 ;
Scottish Law
List,
1960; University College Cork,
Calendar,
1966-61; University College, Dublin,
Calendar,
1960-61 ;
University College, Galway,
Calendar,
1960-61 ; University of Wales,
Calendar,
1960-61.
SUPPLEMENTARY LIST—Wilson and Kelly,
Irish
Income Tax, Third Supplement,
1960 ;
Chronological
Table of British Statutes,
1235-1959 ;
Current Law
Citator,
1947-1960;
Current Law Yearbook,
1960;
Halsbury,
Laws of England,
Simonds Edn., Third
Cumulative Supplement, 1961 ;
All England Law
Reports,
Index -and Noted Up, 1960.
BUDGET STATEMENT
DEATH DUTIES AND STAMP DUTIES
-
The Minister for Finance in his Budget Statement
in Dail Eireanri on .April I9th, made the following
announcements which will be of interest to solicitors.
Death Duties on Small Estates -
The present minimum rate is 3% applicable to
estates between £5,000 and £7,500. The Minister
proposes to re-introduce the rates of i%'and 2%.
The new rate structure will be i% on estates from
£5,000 to £6,000, 2% on estates from £6,000 to
£7,000, 3% on estates from £7,000 to £8,000 and
4% as at present on-estates from £8,000 to £10,000.