REVIEWS
| Published date | 01 December 1942 |
| Date | 01 December 1942 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1942.tb02869.x |
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Companies Acts and its subjection to the provisions thereof; moreover
these Acts
imposed
certain duties on the office of director and on its holder
even in the case of a “private” company. In the result, therefore, the
question posited was answered in the affirmative,
viz.
a directorship of a
“private” company
is
for all purposes a “public” office.
As
regards the locality of a directorship, it was held that this was
situate where the company must
be
deemed to
be
resident, i.e. in this
country; the dictum of Rowlatt. J., in
Proctor
v.
Ryall
(1928),
14
Tax
Cas.
204,
to the contrary, i.e. that “the place where the directorship
was
exercised” determined its locality was specifically disapproved. Both in
the Court of Appeal and in the House of Lords the question of the locality
of a directorship of a British company resident abroad, c.f.
Egyptian Delta
Land
6
Investment
Co.,
Ltd.
v.
Todd,
[~gzg]
A.C.1, was reserved, it being
rightly suggested, however, that in such a case the office would not
be
held
to
be
“within the United Kingdom.”
A.
FARNSWORTH.
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In the course of this book1 of what Lord Justice MacKinnon
is
pleased
modestly to describe
as
“discursive recollections,” the author offers the
opinion that most
books
of legal reminiscences are bad
;
and excepts only
from
this
judgment
Pie
Powder,
by
J.
Alderson Foote, K.C.. and
As
I
Went
on
My Way,
byh.
J.
Ashton, K.C. The book of Lord Justice
MacKinnon will henceforth form a third exception.
It
is
essentially a good
book, full of interest for the lawyer and the discerning general reader.
.*
The
book
is
primarily a record, based
on
journals he used to keep
(omitting the more personal passages) of
his
journeys on circuit during
the years
1924-37
as
a judge of the King’s Bench.
It
tells of visits and
travels to
58
out of the
61
Assize towns of England and Wales, to
all
the
Assize towns, that
is,
with
the exception of Appleby, Oakham, and Bury
St. Edmunds.
It
tells in easy and familiar prose of the Assize Courts in
which the judges sit and of the lodgings in which they stay; of the
histories and traditions and
local
customs of these Courts; and of their
architectural and antiquarian and artistic interest and merits; or other-
wise. One may imagine the interest with which an author of known
literary achievement and artistic taste is able to invest a journey to such
places
as
Durham and York and Lincoln; Leicester and Norwich and
Cambridge
;
Ipswich and Chelmsford and Lewes
;
Winchester and Salis-
bury and Exeter; Oxford and Bristol and Gloucester; Warwick and
Shrewsbury and Carnarvon; Brecon and Lancaster and Carlisle. And,
just
as
the eye of the author is always attracted by any object
of
curious
or artistic interest-an admirable old shop front at Lewes, the War Memo-
rial Cloister at Winchester, the brazier and the branding-iron in the Court
at Lancaster-so
his
ear
is
always attentive to an unusual
or
significant
name or phrase-to names like Sirdiiield or Mynekyme or Fachus or
Footherape that came up
in
Court, to the witness who explained that he
knew the lady well enough “to give her the seal of the day.”
The author finds occasion also to explain the meaning
of
certain
On
Circuit.
1.924-1937.
by
Sir
Frank
Douglas MacKinnon,
Lord
Justice
of
Appeal
(Cambridge
University Press,
1941).
Price
18s.
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