Books and Publications Received:
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1967.tb01163.x |
| Published date | 01 September 1967 |
| Date | 01 September 1967 |
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THE MODERN LAW REVIEW
VOL. 30
English Bar and its place in the legal system of this country. As such it may
justly take its place alongside other essays on the English Bar.
It
contains
plenty of information of varying degrees of value, but cannot replace accounts
of
the Bar such as, for example, may be found in W.
W.
Boulton’s
Coduct
ad
Etiquette at the Bar
and Dr. Jackson’s
Machinery
of
Justice.
American
lawyers reading this book would be well advised to follow
their
reading of it
by referring to some account such
as
those just mentioned, for they will And
that Mr. Hollander suffers from two main faults. His book is not up to date
and suffers from
a
very complacent view of the Bar. These two faults may
clearly be seen by the way in which he compares barristers with solicitors. On
p. 23 we are told that
a
solicitor wishing
to
go to the Bar must “bone up for
the very stiff Bar examinations.”
Mr.
Hollander seems unaware that the Law
Society examinations are probably far harder to get through than the Bar
examinations. He also seems unaware that there are many university graduates
going
into the junior branch
of
the profession and fails completely to
mention the changes in the periods
of
articles laid down by
the
Law Society in
January 1962. Other sentences show that
Mr.
Hollander loves the past with
all its pageantry. Thus we read
at
great length about the process whereby
members of the Bar are created Queen’s Counsel.
It
is typical
of
the book
that the author does not stop to ask whether, at a time when the judges are
so
overworked, this long ceremonial might not be better out of the way.
The analogy of
a
school prize-giving, which
Mr.
Hollander does not draw,
seems to be the only justification.
These criticisms apart, Mr. Hollander has produced
a
pleasant little book
which may even be read after
a
heavy dinner. The pleasure is marred by
the price of the book, which seems high
at
18s.
but is presumably high enough
for it
to
attract loving relatives anxious to present some token to the newly
called barrister.
J.
TILEY.
Books
and Publications Received
:
A BIBLIOORAPHY
OF
PERIODICAL
LITERATURE
RELATING
TO
IRISIX
LAW. By
P.
O’HIGGINS. Belfast
:
Northern Ireland Legal Quarterly Inc. 1966.
xvi and
401
pp.
fli
net.].
ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
THE
LAW
OF
TOWN
AND
COUNTRY
PLANNING.
Vol.
1
Release
No. 23. Vol.
2
Release
No.
23. Published November 30,1966.
ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
THE
LAW
OF
C~MPULSORY
PURCHASE
AND
COMPENSATION.
Release No. 19. Published July
27,
1966. Release No. 21 Published
January 6, 1967.
LEGAL
ASPECTS
OF
TOWN
PLANNING IN
ISRAEL.
By
M.
D.
GOWIDMAN. [Institute
for Legislative Research and Comparative Law. Jerusalem, 1966. 187 pp.].
H~~~PHREY‘s
DISTRICT REGISTRY
PRACTICE
AND
PROCEDURE,
16th edition. By
HUGH
C. COLLINS. [1966. The Solicitor’s Law Stationery Society Ltd.
London E.C.4. vii and 180 pp. 25s.I.
GUIDE
TO
CHANCERY
PRACTICE.
By
EDMIJND
HEWARD.
3rd. edition. [London.
Butterworths. 1966. xxiv and 152 pp. 37s. 6d.I.
COLLECTION
OF
S~WIES
ON
FOREIGN
AND
COMPARATIVE
LAW.
On the occasion
of the tenth anniversary of the Instituk. of Comparative Law. Beograd,
1966. xxii and
557
pp.
SOME
MAKERS
OF
ENGLISH
LAW. By WILLIAX
HOLDSWORTH.
(Paperback)
[Cambridge University Press. 1966. xi and
308
pp. 12s. 6d.I.
MODEL
Rums
FOR
TRIJSTEW
SAVINGS
BANKS. By C.
L. LAWTON.
2nd. edition.
[1966. The Savings Banks Institute,
22
Manchester Square, London,
W.1. 195 pp.].
CAPITAL GAINS
TAX
AND
C~RPORATION
TAX.
Annotated Enactments 1965 and
1966.
[
Butterworths. 772 pp. 60s.l.
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