The Gazette 1981

GAZETTE

NOVEMBER 1981

Solicitors 9 Golfing Society Captain's (Patrick F. Treacy) Prize and Incorporated Law Society of Ireland Challenge Cup: Winner, Andy Smyth (9) 41 points; Runner-up, Tom Shaw (7) 37 points. St. Patrick's Plate: Winner, Paul Malone (10) 39 points; Runner-up, Brian Rigney (11) 35 points, on 2nd nine. Veterans Cup: Winner, Pat O'Gorman (11), 36 points; Runner-up, Ernest Margetson (19), 32 points. 13 Handicap and Over: Winner, Aidan McNulty (18) 36 points, on 2nd nine; Runner-up, Noel O'Meara (14) 36 points. Over 30, miles: Garry McMahon (10) 35 points. By Lot: Pat Reidy (7) 28 points; Bobby Cussen (5) 28 points. Solicitors' Golfing Society Officers for 1981/82 President: President of Incorporated Law Society of Ireland. Captain: David Bell. Hon. Treasurer: Paul W. Keogh. Hon. Secretary: John R. Lynch. Committee: Henry N. Robinson and Gerard M. Doyle. First nine: Jim Cahill (21) 20 points. Second nine: P. Geraghty (8) 20 points.

intended for students of law, business, accountancy, banking etc., and wQl be found useful by these, and others, who wish to acquire a broad picture of modern Irish Law. It should be emphasised however, especially to those who may not intend to pursue legal studies beyond a superficial level, that it is not possible to state even the so-called "principles" of law with quite the degree of accuracy, simplicity and clarity suggested by this work. The laudable aim of explaining the more important principles in easy terms has been achieved here at the expense of a considerable distortion of the reality of "Irish Law". This distortion arises not only from the misleading positive statement of the principles but also from the author's equally laudable aim to concentrate almost exclusively on cases decided in Ireland. It is obviously right that a book on Irish Law should not pay too much consideration to cases decided outside this country at the expense of Irish cases. But in some areas it is not possible to give an adequate statement of "Irish" law by excluding English cases entirely. For example, in the section on Contract, important for the main intended readers studying law in the business context, the total exclusion of reference to English cases is very questionable. Irish and English Courts and practitioners do not deprive themselves of the benefits to be gained from reference to Contract cases decided elsewhere in the common law world. The House of Lords, e.g., in Scuttons Ltd. v. Midland Silicones Ltd., quite happily relied on decisions in the U.S. Supreme Court and the High Court of Australia. If readers consult the cases cited in the section on Contract, they will discover that, in many cases, the Irish judges refer simply to an English case in which the relevant principle is fully discussed. Mr. Doolan could not reasonably have been expected In this book to provide the full synthesis of Irish and English cases which would be required for a comprehensive statement of the Anglo-Irish law of contract, but, while still emphasising Irish cases, he might in this, and other sections, have alerted his readers to the continuing importance of English cases in contemporary Irish law. J. F. O'Connor

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