White Agitation For An Aboriginal State In Australia (1925-1929)

This article evaluates proposals in the late 1920s for the creation of an Aboriginal State in either a part of the Northern Territory or South Australia. In the proposals for an Aboriginal State, Aborigines were to own their own land, live according to their own customs, govern themselves, and have Aboriginal Members of Parliament representing them in the Federal Parliament. The study analyses the intellectual foundations of the proposals in the political organisations of the Maori of New Zealand. It examines Aboriginal people's ambivalence to the idea, which arose out of their bitter experience of living through previous plans made supposedly for their benefit by white society.     

The impact of foreign and state ownership on post-transition industrial concentration: the case of Polish manufacturing

This paper reports an analysis of the determinants of the level and changes in Polish industrial concentration in the early post-transition era. In particular, the relative effects of foreign and state ownership are examined. The empirical evidence is based on a panel of 144 Polish manufacturing industries over the period 1989–1993. The results suggest that both state and foreign ownership have a significant impact on industry concentration and this relationship is U-shaped. Minimum efficient scale is found to be the only other factor to impact on industry concentration.     

Insurance,the negligent solicitor and the disappointed beneficiary

LEGAL REALISM AT YALE 1927–1960. By Laura Kalman. [University of North Carolina Press, 1986. ISBN 0 8078 1677 9; 314 pp. (inc. index). £33.25.]

A LAMENT FOR THE LAW COMMISSION. by R. T. Oerton. [Countrywise Press Ltd. Hardback 117 pp. £13.50.]

PUBLIC ORDER—THE NEW LAW. By R. CARD. [Butterworths 1987. ISBN 0 406 50440 7.224 pp. £12.50 Gimp).]

PUBLIC ORDER—A GUIDE TO THE 1986 PUBLIC ORDER ACT. By J. Marston. [Fourmat 1987. ISBN 1 85190 024 1.189 pp.]

OFFENCES AGAINST PUBLIC ORDER. By A T. H. Smith. [Sweet &; Maxwell/Police Review 1987. ISBN 0 421 36580 3 326 pp. £14.95 (limp).]

PUBLIC ORDER LAW. By P. Thornton. [Financial Training 1987. ISBN 1 85185 040 6. 266 pp. £10.95 (limp).]

STUDIES IN CONSTITUTIONAL LAW. By Colin R. Munro. [Burterworths. 1987. 220 pp. ISBN 0406 26144 X]

BUSINESS LAW. By N. Savage and R. Bradgate. [Butterworths. 1987. xxx and 541 pp. inc. index.]

SEX, RACE AND THE LAW. By Jeanne Gregory. [Sage Publications. 1987. 216 pp. £7.95 (paperback).]

RAPE ON TRIAL. By Z. Adler. [Routledge and Kegan Paul. 1987. viii and 195 pp.]; RAPE AND THE LEGAL PROCESS. By J. Temkin. [Sweet &; Maxwell. 1987. xx and 221.]

MINORS: THE LAW AND PRACTICE. By Kenneth W. Pain. [Fourmat Publishing. 1987. xvii and 293 pp. (inc. index). £16.95 (paperback).]

COHABITATION: THE LEGAL IMPLICATIONS. By Dawn Oliver [CCH Editions Limited. 1987. xvi and 140 pp. (inc. index). £12.50 (paperback).]

CRIMINAL LAW IN A NUTSHELL. By Marianne Giles. [Sweet &; Maxwell. 1987. 121 pp. £3.95.]

GLOAG AND HENDERSON'S INTRODUCTION TO THE LAW OF SCOTLAND. By A. B. Wilkinson and W. A Wilson. [W. Green and Sons Ltd. 1987. clii and 1020 pp. (inc. index). £45.00.]

SCOTTISH CASES AND MATERIALS IN COMMERCIAL LAW. By Douglas J. Cuisine and Angelo D. M. Forte. [Butterworths. 1987. xxvi and 396 pp. (inc. index). £23.95.]     

‘More Equitable than the Judgment of the Justices of the Peace’: The King's Bench and the Poor Law 1630–1800

Orders issued by justices operating the poor law in seventeenth and eighteenth century England – orders for removing paupers, orders for the maintenance of bastard children, orders adjudicating poor rate appeals – generated vast quantities of litigation. Most of that litigation was by way of appeal to Quarter Sessions; but a small number of cases went further, to the King's Bench, by way of certiorari. This account examines this litigation phenomenon from several vantage points: from the perspective of the King's Bench (which innovated procedures to regulate certiorari, and which expanded its means of reviewing legal error through the development of the special case); from the perspective of Parliament (which was required to respond to demands by justices that the process be abolished); and from the perspective of contemporary commentators (who were critical of the money wasted by parishes litigating in the King's Bench).