Books and Publications Received
| Date | 01 May 1955 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1955.tb00303.x |
| Published date | 01 May 1955 |
820
THE
MODERN
LAW
REVIEW
Vot
18
This little work is clearly indispensable to any articled clerk faced
with
the Final Examination; many
a
practitioner, however, should find
it
most
useful for quick reference thanks to the abundant index though,
of
course, he
would turn to the more ample standard works for recondite
or
complex
problems.
A.
F.
INCOME
TAX
LAW
AND
PRACTICE.
By
CECIL
A.
NEWPORT,
F.A.c.C.A.,
and
H.
G.
S.
PLUNKETT,
Barrister-at-Law (formerly one
of
H.M. Inspectors of Taxes). Twenty-sixth edition. [London
:
Sweet
&
Maxwell, Ltd.
1954.
xxxix
and
406
and (index)
29
pp.
27s.
6d. net.]
THE
current edition of this hardy annual appears under new co-authorship,
for
Miss Plunkett, the learned editor of the invaluable
‘‘
CLZTAB,”
replaces
Mr.
0.
J.
Shaw;
at
the same time the book has been reset, many passages
rewritten with advantage and the text broken
up
into numbered paragraphe
which appear both
at
the head of the pages and in the index-a most useful
innovation.
As
this work was critically reviewed
as
recenkly
as
(1953) 16
M.L.R.
267-8,
little further comment seems required though it may be observed that
the deficiencies there pointed out still remain in the current work. In future
editions reconsideration might also be given to the question of “Reopening
Accounts”-para.
163
according to the index but in the text under
“Un-
completed Contracts ”--and to the classic
IYoolccmbers’
and other leading
cases on the topic, recapitulated in
Bevetme
v.
Dadoraell
[1964]
1
W.L.R.
1204.
It
is strange, too, that in para.
146‘‘
Repairs and Renewals ”-no reference
is
made to the recent leading cases of
Phillips
v.
Whieldon
Banitary Pottery
Co.
Ltd.
(1962)
33
T.C.
213
and
Lawhe
v.
C.
I.
R.
(1952)
84
T.C.
844~.
These and other like omissions diminish the value of the work for the legal
practitioner though it still remains, with
its
excellent arithmetical examples,
a
very good practical work eminently suited for its particular public.
A.
F.
Books
and
Publications
Received
TEE
LAW
OF
COMPULSORY
MOTOR VEHICLE
INSURANCE
IN
SOUTH
AFRICA.
By
ARTHUR
SUZMAN,
Q.c.,
and GERALD GORDON,
Q.C.
[Juta
&
Co., Ltd., P.O. B‘ox
30,
Cape Town.
1954.
xi
and
288
pp.
57s.
6d. plus postage.]
PRESTON
AND
NEWSOM
ON
LIMITATION
OF
ACTIONS. Supplement to
Third Edition. By G.
H.
NEWSOM and LIONEL ABEL-SMITH.
[London
:
The Solicitors’ Law Stationery Society, Ltd.,
102-
103
Fetter Lane,
E.C.4.
1954. 20
pp.
8s.
6d. net.
Book
and Supplement
75s.l
KONSTAM
ON
INCOME
TAX. Cumulative Supplement
No.
8
to the
Twelfth Edition. [London
:
Stevens
&
Sons,
Ltd.
;
Sweet
&
Maxwell, Ltd. September,
1954. 74
pp. 6s. net.]
RTVINOTON’S
EPITOME
OF
SNELL’S
EQUITY.
(Twenty-fourth Edition)
Fourth Edition. By
PATRICK
JENKIN,
B.A.
[London: Sweet
&
Maxwell, Ltd.
1954.
viii and
168
pp.
17s.
6d. net.]
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