The Gazette 1972

The Law Society's Digest

of articles and practice notes on non-contentious mat- ters published in the Gazette going back to 1937. Copies of Volume 1 are still available at the original price of £1.25, including postage. Copies of the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1970 and the Solicitors' Remuneration (Registered Land) Order 1970 will be found in the January issue of the English Gazette at pp. 2-5. Those Orders could not be included in this Supplement, as it went to press before they were published. The principal changes necessary to the Opinions of the Council contained in Volume 1 of the Digest conse- quent upon those Orders are as follows : (a) delete Opinion No. 1045, having regard to par. 7 of the Solicitors' Remuneration Order 1970; (b) amend Opinion No. 1256 so that the lessee's solicitors' charges are expressed as one half of the lessor's solicitors' charges; (c) annotate Opinion No. 1136 with a reference to par. 4 of the 1970 Remuneration Orders.

fourth (Cumulative) Supplement to Volume 1 The Fourth (Cumulative) Supplement to Volume 1 on Conveyancing Practice and Costs" (1954) of The Law Society's Digest has now been published and copies are available from the Accounts Department at the Law Society's Hall, Chancery Lane, London WC2, price £1. e ach, including postage. This Supplement contains, as well as the contents of the previous Supplement, over fifty additional epitomes of case law and opinions of the Council, a new Part j°r Registered Land Conveyancing Practice, a list of J ocal law societies and associations and their honorary secretaries and many additions to the list of articles and practice notes published in the Gazette. The Supplement is necessarily incomplete without a Co Py of Volume 1 of The Law Society's Digest, which contains 1,662 epitomes of case law and opinions of the Council, together with copies of the Remuneration Orders, the relevant Solicitors' Practice Rules and a list

Famous Lawyer leaves South Africa South Africa's most famous lawyer, Mr. Joel Carlson, ^ho made his formidable reputation defending Africans i n political trials, quietly left the country this week and 18 now in London, it was disclosed yesterday. became clear that he had become the victim of a planned harrassment campaign, designed to frighten rather than to maim.

Mr. Carlson, who has also been the South African representative of the International Press Institute, put up with the harrassment for more than four years. He has now left. He will surprise many people if he ever comes back. Times Service

Mr. Carlson (45) left the airport at Johannesburg, ^here his wife and children are still living. His South ^Jnan passport was seized by the police in June 1969 ^thout explanation and subsequent attempts to have 11 returned failed. But Mr. Carlson used a British pass- Port, which he did not surrender, for his departure. Mr. Carlson's wife told reporters that her husband nad left on Monday and flown to London, where he ^vould stay for a while before taking up a senior fellow- sl Up at a New York university. The fellowship was for one year, but she did not know whether he would return to South Africa when it expired. "I have made no P la ns,' she said. "The children and I are staying here Until we hear from Joel what he wants to do." Mr. Carlson has practised as a lawyer for fifteen Years, and has for several years been the South African ^ e presentative of the International Commission of Jurists. He has defended Africans held under the Sup- pression of Communism Act and the Terrorism Act, ^eluding the twenty-two Africans who were acquitted iter two lengthy trials last year. . For South Africa's white liberal minority, Mr. Carlson j l a n outstanding hero whose courage is widely admired. ls adventures during his career read like the script of P ne of those American television serials about lawyers for justice against fearful odds. , He has been sent bombs through the post. His office J 35 been shot up. He has frequently been threatened 7 telephone and poison pen letter. His car has been upon. A petrol bomb was thrown at his house. There have been so many such incidents in recent Y$ ar s, including a tiny explosive device in a copy of he Selected Works of Mao Tse-tung, that it soon

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