CORRIGENDA
| Date | 01 July 1950 |
| Published date | 01 July 1950 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1950.tb00173.x |
JULY
1950
STATUTES
357
Government of the day would
be
glad to provide such powers, and
thwe is no reason to suppose that the Opposition is not of the
same opinion. The next move is with the press, and the
Attorney-General was clearly saying in this address ‘if you want
to get the law of libel amended you must set up a Press Council,
and if you are prepared to set up such a Council
I
am prepared
to
assist you to get the law
of
libel amended
’.
But if the press
will
not play why shoald the Government not take the matter
into
their own hands? After all it is general Government policy
to
set up responsible councils in different branches of industry under
the Organisation of Industry Act,
1948,
wherever there is a sub-
stantinl demand for one
in
the industry concerned.
It
is well
known
that the more responsible and conscientious
journalists,
the
real leaders of the profession, would welcome the setting
up
of a
Press Council.
So
that if thev were to take action on these lines
the Government would have a substantial backing
in
the
pro-
fession, as well as the wellnigh unanimous support of the great
mass of the thinking public.
C.
CORRIGENDA
We regret that in the article
on
English Legal Training at p.
187,
Sir
Alexander Carr-Saunders’ co-author
of
The
Professions
was
erroneously described
as
R.
A.
Wright. The co-author
wm,
of course,
Mr.
P.
A.
Wilson,
whose name should accordingly
be
substituted for
‘R.
A. Wright’ at pp.
188
(note
10)
and
139
(note
12).
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