The Gazette 1981

GAZETTE

APRIL 1981

BOOK NOTE The Society's Library has received an Index to Legal Citations and Abbreviations by Donald Raistrick published by Professional Books at £15 Sterling. Identifying abbreviations has long been a problem for the legal profession, as there has been no standardisation and many abbreviations have more than one meaning. This is the first near-definite work of its kind to have been compiled in English and the first to have attempted to in- clude all the known variants of the citations listed. The geographical coverage is broadly the United Kingdom, Commonwealth and the U.S.A., but frequently encountered abbreviations of Common Market countries are also included. While the book must be of'principle use to libraries and universities, the Index, with over 20,000 entries, should find its place as an invaluable bibliographical tool in the hands of all who have need to consult law books. Mr. Raistrick is the Librarian at the United Kingdom Law Commission. INTERNATIONAL BAR ASSOCIATION John F. Buckley has been appointed Chairman of the International Bar Association's Committee on Legal Education and Continuing Legal Education, which is a Committee of the General Practice Section of the I.B.A. APPRENTICESHIPS Professor Woulfe of the Society's Law School has drawn our attention to the fact, that while the demand for apprenticeships is great, the Society is satisfied that it has succeeded in ensuring that no candidate who was qualified to enter the Society's Professional Course under the new system has failed to find a Master. DEED OF APPRENTICESHIP - ADDENDUM Conditional Indentures The Education Committee draws to the attention of any practitioner about to take on an apprentice that, where the Indentures are executed before the student has passed the Final Examination — First Part, the following specimen clause may be added to the deed of apprentice- ship:

Mr. Alexander in the Follies of Divorce said that "the Law doesn't really divorce husbands and wives. It seems to think it does, but in fact they divorce themselves." A divorce statute must protect the parties from coerced decisions. It must safeguard the interest of the children, and provide the adult parties with an opportunity to avoid rash decisions. A divorce statute must neither discourage co-operation and good faith efforts to resolve issues of finance or custody, nor aggravate the tensions and hostile emotions that accompany the break-up of marriage. It must also facilitate, or at least not undermine, the development of sound re-organised family relationships. It must also recognise the law's limits in what is basically a highly personal situation where the law is not always the best equipped instrument in the particular circumstances of the case. However, any statute even if it fully covers all these matters will be of little use if it does not make divorce equally available to people who because of financial inability are unable to pay counsel and court costs and other expenses. "The question of the introduction of divorce raises questions of religious beliefs, the requirements of society and the needs of individual couples who find themselves in intolerable positions. Those who both advocate for and against divorce must recognise that the question of the introduction or not of divorce in this country is not an end in itself. A total re-appraisal of our family law, which is in many areas archaic and unsuited to present day require- ments, is necessary. "The time has been reached when legislators and the general public must seriously consider the deletion of Article 41.3.2° from the Constitution and the enactment of legislation to correspond with the social reality of marriage. A whole new codification and re-appraisal of our family is now required. "Let us hope that those who are in a position to intro duce change have for the sake of society the political will to do so.

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