The English Bar G. S. Wilkinson, 'Solicitor' Milton F. R.
Leavis Mischief or Contempt Paul Ries Collin Frading Stamps P. E. Winnir
The Romantic Miss Riefenstahl
Peter Forster, A. Crawford
Apartheid
Barbara Castle, MP, and others
A Share in Revolutions Trevor Lloyd Androids All Donald G. MacRae
In Hospital with my Son
Janet Macpherson, Ruth Bunt, Peter Jay
THE ENGLISH BAR
SIR,—Mr. Cline in his interesting article on the Bar says: `The Labour Government appointed large numbers of Justices of the Peace . . . solely on their political connections and activities.' I do not think this is accurate; the Lord Chancellor does not appoint magistrates out of the blue, as it were, but only on the recommendation of the Local Advisory Committee. That committee usually has members of more than one political party on it, and I cannot imagine that any Lord Chancellor in his senses would have directed the committees to submit only names of members of the Socialist Party. It is prob- able that what actually happened, if there really was a flood of Labour appointments between 1945 and 1953, was that the committees were advised to bring up the proportion of Labour members on the Benches, so as to provide a better balance of politi- cal parties where appointments had in the past been made on a political basis. The Royal Commission on Justices of the Peace had commented on the appointment of magistrates in its Report issued in 1948.—Yours faithfully,
G. S. WILKINSON Clerk to the Justices
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