ANNOUNCEMENT BY THE EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
| Author | D. M. Gordon |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1971.tb02308.x |
| Published date | 01 January 1971 |
| Date | 01 January 1971 |
THE
MODERN
LAW
REVIEW
Volume
34
January
1971
ANNOUNCEMENT
BY
THE
EDITORIAL COMMITTEE
LORD
CHORLEY
has announced his intention
of
resigning the General
Editorship of the
Review.
His successor will be Professor
K.
W.
Wedderburn.
This change in the editorship will become effective at the Annual
General Meeting of the
Modern
Law
Review
on June
30,
1971.
Lord
Chorley will continue to deal with those authors with whom he has
already been in correspondence. Professor Wedderburn will take
responsibility for all articles submitted after December
81,
1970,
and
authors sending new material after that date are asked to address
their communications to him at the London School of Economics.
At the invitation of the Editorial Committee, Lord Chorley has
agreed to remain
a
member after June
1971
in the capacity of
Editor Emeritus.
The Committee is also pleased to welcome two new members,
Mr.
J.
W. Harris and Mr.
J.
M. Evans, both of the Law Department,
London School of Economics. Mr. Evans will be taking over Mrs.
Reid’s duties as Secretary of the Committee from the present issue
until the January
1972
issue, while she is on leave.
WHAT
DID THE ANISMINIC CASE DECIDE?
I
IN
this unusual case the House of Lords, after much judicial
difference of opinion, held the decision
of
the Foreign Compensation
Commission, which had dismissed the claim of Anisminic
Ltd.
to
share in
a
compensation fund, to be a nullity, for excess of juris-
diction. The fund had been set up to benefit those Britons who
had suffered through the Suez incident in
1956.
The governing statute, the Foreign Compensation Act
1950,
1
Akminic
Ltd.
v.
Foreign
Coi)ipensntiotz
Conmission
[19G9]
2
A.C.
147.
A
note
on
the
case
by
Professor
de
Smith appears in
[1969]
C.L.J.
161,
and
extracts
from
Urowne
J.’s
decision
at
first
instance
iu
[lOG!I]
C.L.J.
230.
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