POLITICS, ECONOMICS, HISTORY. AND LAW.
QUIS JUDICABIT ? (Oxford : Blackwell. 6d. net.)
This is a Report, drawn up for the Churchmen's Union by the Dean of Carlisle's Committee, on the proposed reform of the Ecclesiastical Courts, which is to be considered by the National Assembly. The Report gives a compact account of the existing courts and of the recommendations of the Com- missions of 1883 and 1906. In a concluding chapter the Committee gives reasons for objecting to the proposal that the Ecclesiastical Courts should, on a point of doctrine, take the opinion of the episcopate. " If such a system were to be adopted, there would be an end to all liberty of opinion or of practice in the Church and the doctrine of the Church of England would become just what a majority of the Bishops might choose to make it." The Committee holds that the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council is the best and fairest tribunal that could be devised.
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