Editorial Committee of the Cambridge Law Journal

The University Law SocietyAuthor(s): Hilary WilsonSource: The Cambridge Law Journal, Vol. 32, No. 1 (Apr., 1973), pp. 175-176Published by: Cambridge University Press on behalf of Editorial Committee of the Cambridge LawJournalStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/4505665 .

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176 The Cambridge Law Journal [ 1973 J

that the practice of the law is not always without its humorous moments. The Society has tried to reflect in its programme the interests of its members and meetings have not always taken the form of an address. A forum on community legal services was held during the Michaelmas Term when we heard from Peter Kandler, Susan Marsden-Smedley and David Fleming of the different types of legal assistance that can be given on an informal basis to supplement the formal workings of the legal system. Professor Abel-Smith on another occasion gave his views on the future of legal advice, the extension of legal aid and the role of the Citizens' Advice Bureau. Lord Simon of Glaisdale is giving a series of three lectures to the Law Society and Anthropological Society on " The Law as Ritual," which is presenting a new slant on the law to our

members, if not to the anthropologists. We started the Lent Term with the person who always evokes the

warmest welcome from our Society, Lord Denning, Master of the Rolls. He showed us how the judiciary could shape the law to meet the social needs of the community in an address punctuated with personal anecdote and advice to our members on how to succeed in the profession. We were very grateful to him for opening the new year in such a rousing fashion and for showing such an interest in all who had a chance to chat to him. The forum on Legal Education, chaired by Lord Cross, provoked a most stimulating discussion but no radical conclusions were forth-

coming. The term continued with an address by Lord Goodman, a talk

by Ian Sinclair on the topical subject of legal negotiations with the E.E.C. and the Barristers* and Solicitors' Panels.

This year the Society joined with the Careers Advisory Board in

organising an evening of careers advice on careers outside the legal profession.

The Society's success in the field of mooting has been somewhat

mixed; we were knocked out in the first round of the Observer Mooting

Competition but achieved a judgment in our favour in the moot against O.U.L.S. held this year at Oxford. David Wurtzel and Roderick Cordara mooted on the topic of rescuers and the rule in Hedley Byrne.

It was with great regret that we learnt that Professor Hamson is to retire from the office of Senior Treasurer at the end of the year, after 21

years of restraining the wilder ideas of the Society and offering his

unfailing advice and assistance. The new Senior Treasurer is to be

Professor Peter Stein and we are very pleased that he has been able to

accept this appointment. Hilary Wilson.

The Officers elected for the year 1973-74 are:

President: P. Balen, Peterhouse

Vice-President: J. H. Mears, St. Johns

Secretary: Miss G. S. Oppenheim, Newnham

Junior Treasurer: S. L. Isaacs, Downing

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