Twenty‐First Birthday
| Published date | 01 November 1958 |
| Date | 01 November 1958 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2230.1958.tb00496.x |
THE
MODERN
LAW
REVIEW
Volume
21
November
1958
No.
6
TWENTY-FIRST
BIRTH
DAY
WITH this issue the
Modern
Law
Review
completes its twenty-first
volume, and the Editorial Committee feel that
it
is appropriate
to
take stock of what has been done during the yenrs since the first
number was offered to the legal profession in June of
1987.
The Editorial Committee of that time, of whom half are still
active members, set out to produce
a
legal periodical which in
addition
to
discussing legal topics in
a
professional and scholarly
way would attempt to conduct these discussions against the back-
ground of the contemporary society in which the Inw functions,
and particularly, of course, of
our
own
English society.
This,
we
felt would often show that the existing rules were
no
longer
adequate in the conditions of the presentany world, and we under-
took to make constructive proposals for legal reform
as
and when
opportunity offered.
How far we have achieved our objectives is for
our
readers
to
judge. We are oursclves more conscious of the di5culties inherent
in our task than we were
at
the beginning.
If
we have not accom-
plished much of what we set out to do, we feel that we have helped
to widen the horizons
of
English lawyers, and stimulated some
worth-while discussions. We take pride in the fact that the present
Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, in a letter congratulating
“the
Modern
Law
Review
on attaining its majority,” noted the
fact that “the
Review
has succeeded in retaining its essential
modernity” and that “its articles nre often provocative and
always thought-provoking.” He said further that he had
“
always
found
it
both entertaining and instructive when there is a question
of principle
or
reform
to
be decided.”
The
Review
was floated on a gift of
180
from the Behr Trust
and of
210
from the late Professor Jolowicz, which paid the expenses
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Vot.
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