Books and Publications Received
| Date | 01 November 1962 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1962.tb02230.x |
| Published date | 01 November 1962 |
Nov.
1962
REVIEWS
750
volume, one would point to
Heywood
&
Yurrey
on
Court
of
Protection
Pmcticr
(which is
in
the long line
of
succession of the work in its earliest
edltions known as
Heywood
&
Masssy
on Lunacy Practice),
BS
the mORt out-
standing exemplar for comprehensiveness and utility. The present, the eighth
edition, has been occasioned by the Mental Health
Act,
1969,
and the extensive
changes in the law and practice made thereunder and the consequential rules
and regulations. The preface observes that “prior to November
1,
1960,
when
the Act came fully into operation the jurisdiction exercised by the Court
of
Protection was partly statutory and partly inherent., derived from the
Royal
Prerogative, exercised by those judges
to
whom it was entrusted by Sign
Manual. The inherent jurisdiction and the inquisition now disappear,
not
because they have been expressly abolished, but because there would be nobody
competent to exercisc such jurisdiction
or
to hold an inquisition; which
is
an
example of the, sometimes, charming and unobtrusive subtlety
of
our
consti-
tutional law.” The present edition even improves upon the merits
of
its
predrcessors in that while previous editions set out the relevant material
sections
of
the particular Statutes applicable and
of
the
Rules and Regula-
tions,
the
present edition sets out the whole
of
the
Mental
Health
Act,
the
now comprehensive statute
on
the subject, together with annotations and the
various Rules and Regulations made thereunder. Useful Precedents
of
Bills
of Costs and an Appendix
of
129
Forms
and Precedents make the book among
the few most self-contained volumes
of
mbshtive and procedural law to
be
found in the whole range
of
the law library. Indeed many
of
the Precedents
contain clauses which can be found referentially useful beyond the sphere
of
practice with which the book specifically deals.
Perusal
of
the work prompts the wish that there were more
boob
of
this
kind in other departments of the law which could prove
a
great
boon in the
working
of
our
legal system, and this all within
782
pages of text and
thirty-two pages
of
index.
The learned editors,
Mr.
Donald Hunt, one
of
the Assistant Masters
of
the
Court of Protection, and
Mr.
Maurice Reed, the Deputy
Master,
merit the
gratitude
of
the profession and all concerned with the law and its
administration.
BcnTnrrt
B.
Brxis.
Rooks
and Publications Received:
WHERE
TO
LOOK
FOE
YOUR
LAW.
Fourteenth edition.
By
C.
W.
RINGROSE.
Sweet
&
Maxwell, Ltd.
1962.
vii
and
289
pp.
12s.
6d. (interleaved
25s.).
AIR
MANUAL
(CIVIL
AND
CRIMINAL).
Second edition.
Vols.
la
and
14.
The
All
India Reporter, Ltd.
1962.
P.B.
56,
Nagpur.
SCANDINAVIAN LEGAL BIBLIOGRAPHY.
Prepared
by
Stig
Iuul,
Ake
Malmstrom and ens Sondergaard. Uppsala: Almquist
&
Wiksell.
1981. 196
pp.
Sw.kr.
25.
THIS
bibliography is one of
the
series
of
such
works sponsored by
UNESCO
and appears to have achieved the high standard attained by other publications
in this series. The nature and sources
of
each of the five Scandinavian
systems are explained in
a
brief but lucid introduction. The list
of
titles, Kith
translations into English, indicate the variety and vitality
of
Scandinavia
legal literature.
EDDY
ON
THE
LAW
OF
DISTRESS.
Third edition.
By
IA~
MACLENNAN
and
BRIAN
COOKE.
Sweet
&
Maxwell,
Ltd.
1961.
xxiv
and
220
pp.
82s.
6d.
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