12 FEBRUARY 1927, page 6

The New Session

T ILE meagreness of the legislative fare in the King's Speech is the result of the decision to keep the present session short. There is no doubt that legislation suffers when......

De Mortuis Non Curat Lex 1 -ord Hervey Reports The Emperor

Charles VI as - 4 saying in 1734 ; " Les morts ont toujours tort." A great English judge said in 1887, " to libel the dead is not an offence known to our law." The only good......