Chairman's Notes
| Published date | 01 November 1946 |
| Date | 01 November 1946 |
| DOI | 10.1177/026455054600500601 |
| Subject Matter | Articles |
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CHAIRMAN’S NOTES
Apparently our hopes for the early re-introduction of
the Criminal Justice Bill are to be falsified, which is a
pity, because almost without exception the provisions of
the old bill, at any rate, were quite uncontroversial and
represented agreement on all sides on the minimum steps
necessary to bring the penal system into accord with
modern ideas, and to give an opportunity for further
real progress.
That was eight years ago, and we still
want to make progress. It is encouraging to find that
there is a good deal of public interest and pressure
endeavouring to make itself felt.
Much of this is true also on the question of the imple-
mentation of the Curtis Report. We, of course, share
the desire for urgent action on that problem too, and it
is not with any intention to relegate it to lesser impor-
tance that we may reflect that penal reform was first in
the queue with a bill ready drafted
Since our last issue, as members will know, N.A.P.O. has
been considering and formulating its views on two
important topics for submission to the departmental
committee on Divorce Law administration, and to the
Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace. The mem-
oranda which we submitted to these bodies will be found
elsewhere in this issue, and in each case representatives
of the Association have attended to give evidence in
support of its memorandum.
So far as the Divorce
Committee was concerned, our main object was to under-
line the need for a conciliation service, and to suggest
that the obvious and most practical way to secure it
would be to extend to the courts dealing with divorce
cases (given the extended jurisdiction, which has now
been recommended by the Committee) the facilities
which have for so long and so widely been used in the
service of those whose matrimonial troubles bring them
to the Magistrates’ Courts. We had a full...
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