The Gazette 1990

GAZETTE

SEPTEMBER 1990

say that he found law dear and left it cheap; found it a sealed book, left it a living letter; found it the patrimony of the rich, left if the inheritance of the poor; found it the two-edged sword of craft and oppression, left it the staff of honesty and the shield of innocence." The writer of this notice appreci- ates that these rallying words are somewhat extravagant and garish. Our Law ReformCommissioners, Mr. Justice Ronan Keane, Judge of the High Court (President), Mr. John F. Buckely, Solicitor, Professor William Duncan, Professor of Law, Trinity College, Ms. Maureen Gaffney, Senior Psychologist, Eastern Health Board, and Mr. Simon P. O'Leary, Barrister-at-Law are essentially "assisting the Government and the legislature in reforming the law." In its Report, the Law Reform Commission provides an update on the year's work. The year's work is divided into several categories: child sexual abuse; sexual offences against the mentally handicapped; debt collection (retention of title); conveyancing and land law, defa- mation; criminal libel; contempt of court; seizure of the proceeds of crime; dishonesty; the rule against hearsay in criminal cases; offences against the person; indexation of fines; and private international law. The Law Reform Commission deserves our support. Eamonn G. Hall Association of Pension Lawyers (Contd. from p. 291) organisations with considerable depth and strength in all aspects of pensions business and our Regional Group will certainly benefit from being associated with them. Our next meeting will be mid November. The addresses will be on technical aspects of pensions. Everyone is welcome! Further details with regard to Membership can be obtained from: Joan Flanagan, Irish Pensions Trust Ltd, (Telephone 776591). Information on the activities of the Regional Group can be obtained from: Raymonde Kelly, Irish Life Assurance Pic., (Telephone 7402645) and Michael Lane, New Ireland Assurance Co. Pic. (Telephone 717077). RAYMONDE KELLY

The EEC Convention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments P E T ER B YRNE The 1968 BrusselsConvention on Jurisdiction and the Enforcement of Judgments in Civil and Commercial Matters — brought into force on 1 June 198 — establishes abody of rules of primary importance for asignificant proportion of practitioners. This book examines the Convention article by article setting out the effect of each and, where provisions have been construed by the Court of Justice, referring in considerable detail to the relevant decisions—delivered in over fifty judgments todate. The full text of the Convention (andaccession conventions), indicating al amendments and the provisions of the Irish Jurisdiction of Courts and Enforcement of Judgments (E.C. Communities) Act 1988, together with an annotated guide based on the draughtsmen's reports and summaries of the case-law of the Court of Justice are included. In his foreword The Hon. Mr Justice JohnBlayney states: The author deserves the thanks of all practitioners who will have to grapple with this branch of the law. He has had the courage to undertake the research and arduous work required ...and has done so admirably. THE ROUND HALL PRESS Kill Lane, Blackrock, Co. Dublin, Ireland ^Te l: 892922; Fax 893072 S A D S I ARE HOLD I NG A HAT & SU I TCASE PARTY o n S a t u r d a y , 2 0 O c t o b e r i n P r e s i d e n t ' s H a l l , B l a c k h a l l P l a c e 9.00 p.m. — 2.00 a.m. Admission £3. £1 a pint. COME PREPARED - ALL WELCOME! ISBN 0-947686-60-6,272pp £45.00

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