The Law Society’s Gazette, March 1929

Careless drafting of legislationThe Council of the Law Society regard it as seriously to the public disadvantage that frequently insufficient time is allowed to the House of Lords properly to consider Bills sent to them from the House of Commons at the conclusion of sessions of Parliament, and that consequently even less time is allowed to the House of Commons for consideration of amendments made in the House of Lords.

The Law Society's Gazette, March 1969

Solicitors’ remunerationIt will have been no surprise to the profession that on 24 February the Attorney General stated orally in reply to a Parliamentary question... that the Lord Chancellor and the First Secretary of State are proposing to make arrangements for the Prices and Incomes Board to keep solicitors’ remuneration under continuous review.

The computer and the law: privacySo long as information about people is collected piecemeal by central and local authorities, schools, hospitals, hire purchase and finance houses, insurance companies etc, the individual's right to privacy which, while generally accepted as desirable has yet to find legal recognition in this country, is perhaps not too much threatened by such decentralised and unconnected collection. But what will happen to privacy if the computer is used to centralise information say in a much larger and perhaps even a single colossal bank of information? The more easily the State and subordinate authorities can tap personal information, the more the individual is in need of protection against abuse.

LettersSir, With reference to p.75 of the February Gazette, please may it be brought to the notice of somebody that the plural of ‘proforma’ is not ‘proformae’?