13 JULY 1929, Page 3

The necessary measures to assimilate, as far as possible, the

legal position of the Crown to that of the private citizen are already under way, and we think that Lord Sankey need not be uneasy on that score. On the other hand, he very properly touched upon the injustices arising from the cost of litigation—though with due delicacy—. and also on the necessity for a wider and more up-to-date legal training, if the profession is to give of its best in this democratic age. We entertain the highest hopes of the growing body 'of international law precisely because it is, developing unfettered by rigid doctrines and obsolete assumptions such as still mar some branches of our national jurisprudence. * *