Recent Book: Come the Market …: The Conflict of Laws
| DOI | 10.1177/0032258X7204500113 |
| Published date | 01 January 1972 |
| Date | 01 January 1972 |
| Subject Matter | Recent Book |
and
one question
and
answer should
lead to another. Nevertheless, if police
officers are given some sort of guide on
how to commence, an interrogation
must inevitably produce better results.
The
chapter dealing with places of
concealment is interesting and compre-
hensive,
and
the subsequentappendices
on legislation
and
powers are compact
and
instructive.
CommanderPowis suggests
that
this
publication is mainly intended for
cadets, trainees
and
young beat police-
men, but there are practical hints in
Thieves on Wheels
that
will interest,
and
add
to the knowledge of, police-
men
of
all ages
and
experience.
IAN
FORBES,
Deputy Assistant Commissioner,
(National Co-ordinator,
Regional Crime Squads.)
EARLY
DAYS
DONALD
RUMBELOW:
I
Spy
Blue.
The
Police
and
Crime in the City of London
from Elizabeth I to Victoria. Macmillan. £4·60.
This is an admirable
book-an
example to anyone seeking to write
police history. Mr. Rumbelow is a
constable in the City
of
London
Police
but if he
had
been a University teacher
this work would still be highly credit-
able. One has the impression
that
he
has read everything available on his
subject, whether in printed or docu-
mentary form,
and
he has brought it
into
good form. No police officer could
fail to be interested in this searching
account of the early days of pro-
fessional policing in London
and
the
book
makes a valuable contribution to
the literature
of
police. It is most
heartening to see this sign of the
Service's increased powers of com-
munication and will heighten police
scholarship's standing in academic
regard.
QUAESTOR
COME
THE
MARKET
•..
I. H. C.
MORRIS:
The Conflict
of
Laws. Stevens. Hardback: £5; paperback: £3.25.
Conflict of laws, or private inter-
national law, is defined by Morris as
"that
part
of the private law of a
country which deals with cases having
a foreign element". Its principal
concern lies first with the appropriate
form for a
case-has
the English
court jurisdiction? The areas of law
most involvedare family law, contracts,
torts and property. The subject attracts
important and interesting academic
analysis. An example of this is the
doctrine of renvoi which deals with
the
problems such as
that
of
aBriton
dying in Italy with domicile there.
Under English law the domicile
determines
that
his estate should be
dealt with by Italian law: Italian law
by the law
of
the
man's
nationality
which is British. Clearly a logical
basis has to be established to cut
Gordian knots
of
that kind.
The subjects which are of direct
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interest to a policeman are only dealt
with in public international law, a
quite separate subject. It is there that
topics such as extra-territorial crimes,
extradition and so on are dealt with.
So Conflicts has virtually
not
the
slightest professional interest for a
policeman. But for the law student, or
the reader who makes law his hobby, it
is a subject of great complexity
and
fascination. Its most endearing quality
is
that
it leads to examination questions
beginning
"A
British girl
of
16 is
flying in a French plane over Burma.
The man sitting next to her comes from
Brazil
and
is a
Roman
Catholic. They
decide to get married as soon as the
plane reaches
Dubai
....
"
The
possi-
bilities are endless.
It is hardly necessary to say
that
for
the student of conflicts this
book
by
Morris, an acknowledged expert, is
excellent. I.C.W.
85
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