Recent social legislation in England
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Molony, Thomas F. 'Recent social legislation in England'. - Dublin: Journal of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland,Vol. XVI No. 1, 1937/1938, pp33-42Download Item:
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Shortly after I was called to the Bar and went on the Leinster Circuit a very old member of the Circuit advised me in fatherly terms never to
neglect to read the Statutes of the year because, as he said, you may be
excused for not knowing a case, but you ought not to be excused for
not knowing a Statute when they are brought out each year for a few
shillings, and even if you hadn't the shillings you can still read them
in the library or borrow them from a friend. Well, young as I was I
recognised the soundness of the advice, but its value was borne in on me
very strongly some years ago on reading the Report of a Scotch case
in the House of Lords, where it appeared that the case was fought in
the Scotch Courts and in the House of Lords, without the distinguished
Scotch and English Counsel being aware of the Statute which decided
the point, and it remained to be discovered by the Irish Lord of Appeal,
Lord Atkinson, who no doubt in his young days had received and benefited
by the same advice that I had got.
From the 6th December, 1922, when I swore in my old friend Timothy
Michael Healy as Governor-General of the Irish Free State, the Statutes
of the Imperial Parliament ceased to apply to the Free State, and it was
natural that divergencies should arise in the laws affecting the two
countries, and all I propose to do in the present Paper is to sketch the
course of legislation in England on certain matters of social reform,
without pausing to inquire at any length on their respective merits or
defects, which may well be left to our members to discuss.
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Read on Wednesday, 19th January, 1938
Author: Molony, Thomas F., Sir
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Journal of The Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of IrelandVol. XVI part 1 1937/1938
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