LAW AND THE EMPIRE.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19803, 31 May 1926, Page 10

LAW AND THE EMPIRE.

STUDY IN LONDON. . PROVISION FOR DOMINION STUDENTS. ■ 6 (F'Hom Our Own Correspondent.) LONDON, April 16. The subject of the establishment of a School of Advanced Legal Studies is discussed by Professor H. C. Gutteridge, Dean of the Faculty of Laws and Cassel Professor of Commercial. Law in the University of London. The great majority of the English lawyers, he says, in a letter to The Times, will concur in the view that it is essential that a school of this nature should confine itself to the promotion of post-graduate study, and should not, in any way, put itself into a position in which is might be accused of being a centre of propaganda on behalf of the common law, or 'of interfering with the standards and methods of admission to the legal profession in any of the dominions. “What is, in fact, needed is that the various educational bodies concerned—namely, the Inns of Court, the Law Society and the universities —should agree to pool their resources and to co-operate in every possible way to provide dominion students with the very best guidance in a course uf advanced study, combined with practical experience of a genuine and valuable character. It is to be hoped that there will be no attempt to add another to the various law schools already in existence. All that is necessary can be achieved by a carefully planned and wellorganised system of collaboration between the pi’ofessional bodies and the universities which would further have the great merit of avoiding any possible isolation of tin dominion student owing to his segregation in a separate school of law where he would have no opportunity of coming into direct contact with English students. Some kind of organisation would no doubt be required to co-ordinate the different courses of instruction now available and to supervise the work of the overseas students, but it should, at the beginning, at all events, be as flexible as would be consistent with efficiency. Time and experience would not doubt suggest further developments, but in ds initial stages any such scheme would of necessity be tentative.” '