LAW REFORM
SIR,—I thought your review on my pamphlet Speed Up Law Reform was an excellent example of what
reviews should be; namely, to tell your readers some- thing about the publication and at the same time to give your own views on it. Too many reviews only do the latter.
I should, however, perhaps explain that I did not propose that all law reform Bills should have to go before the Law Reform Committee and the Law Reform Council before they reach Parliament, This Committee and this Council would normally be bodies which would propose Bills but would not be concerned with the detailed drafting of them. I also do not suggest that reforms in the machinery of State ,connected with matters such as local govern- ment or the machinery of taxation should be dealt with by the law reform machinery I propose. Such matters seem to me to fall outside the province of the Lord Chancellor's Department with which I was mainly concerned. On the other hand, the associa- tion of laymen with lawyers in a Law Reform Coun- cil to advise the Lord Chancellor's Department might be a useful experiment which could be adapted for other departments.—Yours faithfully,
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