Secretarial practice

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Identifikator:: 1828236004

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-249926

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Secretarial practice

Edition:: fourth edition

Place of publication:: Cambridge

Publisher:: W. Heffer & Sons Ltd

Year of publication:: 1930

Scope:: viii, 987 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2022

Collection:: Economics Books

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736 SECRETARIAL PRACTICE Prosecution of 366. All offences under this Act made punishable by any fine max Toy pes punish- be prosecuted under the Summary Jurisdiction Acts. Application of fines. 367. The court imposing any fine under this Act may direct that the whole or any part thereof shall be applied in or towards payment of the costs of the proceedings, or in or towards the rewarding the person on whose information or at whose suit the fine is recovered, and subject to any such direction all fines under this Act shall, not- withstanding anything in any other Act, be paid into the Exchequer. 368. Nothing in this Act relating to the institution of criminal proceedings by the Director of Public Prosecutions shall be taken ta preclude any person from instituting or carrying on any such proceedings. Saving as to private prosecutors, Saving for privileged communications. 369. Where proceedings are instituted under this Act against any person by the Director of Public Prosecutions or by or on behalf of the Lord Advocate, nothing in this Act shall be taken to require any person who has acted as solicitor for the defendant to disclose any privileged communication made to him in that capacity. Service of Documents and Legal Proceedings. Sepvjceet ocr 370.—(1) A document may be served on a company by leaving any. it at or sending it by post to the registered office of the company. (2) Where a company registered in Scotland carries on business in England, the process of any court in England may be served on the company by leaving it at or sending it by post to the principal place of business of the company in England, addressed to the manager or other head officer in England of the company. (3) Where process is served on a company under subsection (2) of this section, the person issuing out the process shall send a Copy thereof by post to the registered office of the company. Costs in actions by certain limited companies. Power of court to grant relief in certain cases. 371. Where a limited company is plantiff or pursuer in any action or other legal proceeding, any judge having jurisdiction in the matter may, if it appears by credible testimony that there is reason to believe that the company will be unable to pay the costs of the defendant if successful in his defence, require sufficient security to be given for those costs, and may stay all proceedings until the security is given. '372.—(1) If in any proceeding for negligence, default, breach of duty, or breach of trust against a person to whom this section applies it appears to the court hearing the case that that person is or may be liable in respect of the negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust, but that he has acted honestly and reasonably, and that, having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including those connected with his appointment, he ought fairly to be excused for the negligence, default, breach of duty or breach of trust, that court may relieve him, either wholly or partly, from his liability on such terms as the court mav think fit.

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