CONFLICTS IN LAW

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30110, 19 April 1963, Page 8

CONFLICTS IN LAW

The Six And Britain

(N.Z. Press Association) AUCKLAND. April 18 Study of conflicts between English commercial law and that of the Common Market countries was urged by Dr. R. G. McElroy, at the New Zealand law conference today. He discussed the rules of English law applicable in situations where performance of a contract became impossible by reason of some event beyond the control of the parties, and compared these rules with the corresponding rule operating in the countries of the common mark -t Dr. McElroy said that with the tendency for trade and commerce to increase between such countries and the Commonwealth this was a branch of commercial law which would become of importance to businessmen and their legal advisers

Supporting Dr. McElroy, a French barrister, Maitre R. Tenger. said that many people did not understand the complete nature of the Common Market. It was more than just a trading association. It was also an association of countries with common social philosophies and common legal systems. These principles were specified in the Treaty of Rome along with the trade objects. Maitre Tenger said that committees of lawyers of the Common Market countries were meeting to iron out differences in their systems. These problems would be involved with any new member countries.