THE WAY TO JUSTICE

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXIX, Issue 13426, 27 August 1941, Page 2

THE WAY TO JUSTICE

CODIFICATION OF LAWS “No one will nowadays venture to deny that law should be ascertainable as easily as is possible. Why then can anyone think that it is reasonable to leave it imbedded in the pages of thousands of volumes with the very existence of which no living lawyer is completely acquainted, and from which, in many instances, it can be extracted, if at all, only with vast labour and difficulty and resulting uncertainty and confusion. That codification would obviate the enormous waste of time, labour and money now involved in the search for relevant authorities, and their examination, citation and discussion is self-evident. It is also certain that it would transform the whole aspect and character of the law in the eyes of intelligent people. Law would cease to be obscure, mysterious, and repellent, and become an object of pleasant and satisfactory study to lawyers and laymen alike. Discharged of its rubbish; expressed in appropriate language, and arranged in the most convenient form and order, it would be accessible to ali educated people of normal powers of understanding.”—Dr Heber L. Hart, K.C., author of a primer of legal reform entitled “The Way to J ustice.”