Correspondence
| Date | 01 January 1963 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1963.tb00702.x |
| Author | E. B. Simmons |
| Published date | 01 January 1963 |
JAN.
1963
REVIEWS
119
whenever he had been previously accustomed to looking to the National
Health Service for his treatment.
He
has
misunderstood, among others,
Cavalier
v.
Pope,
Wilkinson v.
Downton,
Sational Coal
Bourd
v.
Evans
and
Cassidy
v.
Ministry
of
Health.
Sometimes
the exposition is niarred by failure
to
toke account of later legislation
:
this
ritiotes, for exaniplc,
o
whole paragraph of explanation
at
p.
24.
Proof-
reading has not been well done.
It
is highly desirable that leading silks should find time to give the rest
of
us
the benefit of their skill and experience. We are greatly indebted to
Mr.
Chapman for having displayed that rare combination of high standards
of scholarship and practical shrewdness which is found in this attractively
written book.
RIr.
Chapman is sometimes less reliable when expounding cases.
HARRY
STREET.
REEDER
UND
CHARTERER.
By
GEORG-CHRISTIAN LORENZ-MEYER.
(Ubersee-Studien
zum
Handels-,
Schiffahrts-
und
Versicher-
ungsrecht,
KO.
29.)
[Hamburg
:
Schiffahrtsverlag
“
Hansa
”
C.
Schroedter
8;
Co.
1961.
134
pp.]
THIS
little volume deals with the relations of shipowner and time charterer,
a
subject
of
some interest to the few existing German shipping lawyers. The
author discusses
at
some considerable length whether the charter
is
a
contract
of hire
or
of service and he quotes an almost bewildering number
of
opinions
each way in
a
manner typical of
a
thesis for
a
doctorate. But the essay also
includes some useful remarks about individual clauses and the operation of
shipping conferences. The author draws attention
to
the extreme scarcity of
supreme court cases on the subject.
0.
C.
GILES.
CORRESPONDENCE
THE EDITOR,
Sir,
The Times
reports (August
11)
that the London County Council have
resolved to ask the Home Secretary to introduce legislation to make
a
criminal
offence
“
incitement to violence by the advocacy of racial discrimination and
hatred.”
It is
a
sovereign remedy for indignation to recommend and, if possible, to
secure the enactment
of
legislation. An Act goes on the Statute
Book
and
possibly little more is heard of it, but feelings are relieved. An example is,
perhaps, the Riding Establishments Act,
1939
(which empowers local autho-
rities to inspect riding establishments to prevent horses from being ridden
when to do
so
would cause them suffering).
I
am informed-perhaps wrongly
-that no prosecutions have been brought under the Act.
Before adding to
our
bulky, complicated and ever-varying statute law
there
are
several questions
to
be asked
:
(1)
What exactly is proposed?
(2)
How far, if
at
all, is an amendment
of
the existing law necessary?
The Modern Law Review.
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