Democracy and the Law The new Lord Chancellor is known
to be something more than the conventional ornament of his profession. At the Judges° Dinner, on Friday, July 5th, he showed his mettle by broaching various subjects which, in the eyes of the general public at any rate, call for prompt reform. He referred, of course, to the giant strides made in recent years in the direction of bureaucratic control— of administrative " justice " from which there is no appeal—a theme ably analysed in the lately published book by Dr. F. J. Port, which we review elsewhere. The remedy here, as Lord Sankey intimated, might be found in a committee of inquiry which would set up the desired safeguards without attempting to check the natural movement of the age. At the same time a suggestion as to how Parliament may better retain and exercise control over Departmental orders would do much to reassure those who see the Executive encroaching unduly upon the Legislature.
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