Quarterly Notes
| Published date | 01 October 1965 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1002/j.1099-162X.1965.tb00656.x |
| Date | 01 October 1965 |
fLuarterly
Notes
UNlTED
KINGDOM
-
Conference
on East African law
A series
of
Conferences on Commonwealth laws has been held by
the
British
Institute of
International
and
Comparative
Law
at
Cumberland
Lodge,
Windsor
Great
Park, Berkshire,
during
the
past few years.
Cumberland
Lodge
is
made
available by
the
Trustees
of
St.
Catharine's
Trust,
and
the purpose
of these conferences is to enable practitioners, students
and
others interested
in the laws of
the
various parts of
the
Commonwealth
to meet in informal and
attractive surroundings for the purpose of discussing legal developments and
other
aspects of the legal structures of their
own
countries. Representatives of
the
Bench
and
Bar
and
of
the
universities in
the
United
Kingdom
and
in the
countries concerned
attend
the conferences,
but
the gatherings
are
held
mainly
for
the
benefit of
Bar
students
and
law students,
both
undergraduate
and
postgraduate,
at
the
English universities.
The
most recent of such conferences was
that
on
"The
Law in East Africa"
which was
intended
to
embrace
the
legal activities of Kenya,
Tanzania
and
Uganda,
and
to give delegates an
opportunity
of a comparative study of the
institutions
of
those territories.
It
was held
during
the weekend 30th Apr·il to
3rd
May,
1965,
and
was opened in
the
evening
of
Friday
the
30th
April by
the
Rt.
Hon.
Lord
Denning,
Master
of
the
Rolls,
Chairman
of St. Catharine's
Trust
and
Chairman
of
the Council
of
Management
of the British Institute.
Lord
Denning
gave a
short
introductory
address
and
then
took the
chair
at
the first lecture
of
the conference
which
was delivered by
Mr.
M.
K. Mwendwa,
Solicitor-General
of
Kenya,
on
"Constitutional
Contrasts in
the
East African
Territories".
On
the
following day,
Mr.
J.
W. P. B. McAuslan, of University College,
Dar-es-Salaam,
Tanzania,
delivered alecture on "Administrative
Law
in
East Africa:
with
special reference to
Kenya",
the
Chairman
being Professor
Arthur
Phillips,
Dean
of
the
Faculty
of
Law
of the University
of
Southampton.
Later
in
the
morning,
Mr.
D.
J.
Kkambo
Mugerwa,
Solicitor-General of
Uganda,
gave a talk on
"Current
Land
Tenure
in East Africa: Some Con-
trasts".
The
Chairman
on this occasion was the
Rt.
Hon. Sir
Kenneth
Diplock.
a
Lord
Justice
of
Her
Majesty's
Court
of Appeal.
In
the afternoon there was a
sight-seeing
tour
by motor-coach to Windsor, which was
joined
by a large
number
of those
attending
the
conference.
On
the
return
of
the
coach
party,
tea
was served,
and
thereafter
Mr.
A. St.
J.
Hannigan,
Head
of the
Department
of
Law
and
Government
of University College, Nairobi, delivered alecture on
"Some
Aspects
of
Local
Government
in East Africa", which was
chaired
by
Mr.
Richard
Rugarabamu,
Senior
State
Attorney
of
Tanzania.
After
dinner
an
address on
"The
Place
and
Future
of
Customary
Law
in East Africa" was
delivered by
Mr.
Eugene
Cotran,
Lecturer
at
the School
of
Oriental
and
African Studies, University of
London,
the
Chairman
being
Mr.
M. E. K.
Kagwa,
Chief
Registrar
of
the
High
Court
of
Uganda.
The
third
day
was Sunday,
and
the
morning
was left free to enable the
visitors to
attend
religious services. After lunch, ]\;11', W. L. Twining, Lecturer
of
the University College, Dar-es-Salaam,
Tanzania,
delivered alecture on
"Legal
Education
in
East
Africa".
The
Chairman
was
Mr.
Norman
S. Marsh,
Director
of
the
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Institute. After
tea
ageneral discussion was held 011 all
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