2 SEPTEMBER 1922, Page 25

Professor Holdsworth concludes, in the current Law Quarterly Review, an

important article on " The History of Remedies Against the Crown," in which ho points out that the refusal of the courts to apply the doctrine of employers' liability to the Crown results in grave injustice. "The subject is in this respect worse protected in this country than in some foreign countries." The maxim that " the King can do no wrong " is twisted into an assertion that departmental officials may do what they please without fear of being called to account. Pro- fessor Holdsworth notes that the Ministry of Transport Act makes the Minister " responsible for the acts and defaults of the servants and agents of the Ministry as if they were his servants." Other Ministers ought to be made equally responsible before the law.