Review: Police Law
| DOI | 10.1177/002201834901300114 |
| Published date | 01 January 1949 |
| Date | 01 January 1949 |
| Subject Matter | Review |
112
THE
JOURNAL OF CRIMINAL LAW
experience are peculiarly fitted for dealing
with
an
Act
which
has
so
important
abearing on children whose
fate
falls to be decided
by
local
authorities or juvenile courts.
The
informative introduction
by
Col.
Eton
must
be read in order to
obtain
a
true
picture,
not
only of
what
the
Act
does
and
seeks to do,
but
of
the
historical background from which
it
emerges. Col.
Eton
shows
how
the
recommendation of
the
Curtis Committee
that
responsibility for
the
care of
"deprived"
children should be
centred
in one Government
Department
has resulted in
the
Home Office taking from
the
Ministries
of
Health
and
Education
all
the
work formerly performed by
them
with
the
exception of
the
one
duty
of
the
latter
Ministry in relation to children
whose educational needs require boarding
out
or training in residential
schools.
The
Act
itself (together
with
the
Nurseries
and
Child-Minders
Regulation Act, 1948,
with
which
this
book also deals) is mainly of
interest
to local authorities, on whom is imposed
the
obligation
to
receive
into
their
care all children who, for
want
of a
better
word,
have
been
described as "deprived". There is little in
the
Act
of interest to
the
criminal lawyer although
there
are
penal sections for
the
purpose of
enforcing certain of
the
provisions,
and
juvenile
court
procedure is
affected in some minor matters.
The
Editors,
by
annotation,
have
dealt faithfully
with
every section
of
the
Act,
with
copious references to relevant
Statutes
and
decided cases.
Two Appendices reproduce sections of
important
Statutes
affected
by
the
new legislation,
and
a
third
Appendix gives
the
Boarding
Out
Regulations.
The
annotations are to be praised for
their
thoroughness
and
utility
value,
and
areally excellent
Index
makes search for
any
item
easy.
This volume will be indispensable to every local
authority
and
juvenile
court
and
Messrs.
Butterworth
are to be complimented on
producing so complete a
study
of
the
Act well within
three
months
of
its
coming
into
force.
POLICE
LAW,
by
CECIL
C. H.
MORIARTY,
C.B.E., LL.D.
9th
Edition.
Butterworth
&Co. (Publishers)
Ltd.
Price 9s.
It
is inevitable in these days of overworked legislation
that
the
author
of a
text
book dealing mainly
with
the
criminal law should find
that
when his book reaches
the
public
it
is already out-of-date in certain
important
respects. Mr. Moriarty has suffered
this
unfortunate
fate
in
that
he was
not
in a position to include
the
Criminal
Justice
Act, 1948,
the
Children
Act
or
the
National Assistance
Act
in
the
new edition of his
now justly-famous "Police
Law".
Written
primarily for police officers
the
book retains all its previous good characteristics oflucid presentations,
easy reference
and
accuracy of law,
and
it
is a
pity
that
so
much
will
have
to
be checked against
the
new laws in order to ensure
that
nothing
vital
is overlooked.
The
parts
dealing
with
laws
that
are
not
affected
by
new
legislation
have
been
brought
up-to-date,
and
the
book has been revised
throughout.
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