and I can discern nothing but an inestimable intellectual gain to be derived by the barristers of the English Law provinces from a closer knowledge of the Quebec Code, and of its origin and of the spirit of the Roman Law.

I am glad to avail myself of this juncture in a busy student's daily routine to pen some words in support of the formation of a "Canadian Bar Association," and in doing so I have presented the two sides of the medal. Publicity and education will amicably level differences, if any of a serious nature exist. I hope that others will take up the symposium where I have left it, and carry the matter to some tangible result. In the meantime the batonniers of the respective bar associations of Canada should get into correspondence with one another to see if there are any obstacles in the way of immediate organization, and, if not, during the new year or short vacation to meet together and formally draw up plans for the founding of a Canadian Bar Association, worthy of its name, worthy of the great trust that is to be put into its hands by the people of Canada; and worthy to be a beacon light blazing the way which leads to the highest influences of civilization-the path to eternal and sublime justice.

A. JACOB LIVINSON.

Faculty of Law, McGill University, Montreal, October 7th, 1913.

EDITORIAL.

Our contemporary, the London (England) Law Journal, in the last issue publishes a special Law Society Number in which the relation between the Law Society and the University is ably discussed. As the question is of vital importance not only in Ontario but throughout the whole Dominion of Canada, where new universities and law schools have been recently established, we have taken the liberty of quoting the articles in question verbatim. In addition, the recent changes due to the retirement of Lord Alverstone and the appointment of his successor, entailing as it does various changes in the office of the Solicitor-General and Attorney-General makes the number a particularly interesting one and our debt to our contemporary for drawing so largely from this interesting number is a very great one.

We publish in this issue the minority opinions of H. A. Powell, Esq., K.C., and C. A. Magrath, who dissented from the finding of their confreres of the International Joint Commission in an application for approval of what is known as Kettle Falls Dam. The application refers to article 3 of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain dated the 5th of May, 1910, the full text of which article is given in the opinion of the two commissioners above mentioned, and also the various other sections which affected the question, in addition to which the opinion of the majority is also appended, together with the order dismissing the application.

A careful reading of the two reports leads one to believe that the true finding was that of the minority, and had the commission been composed of Judges accustomed to the interpretation of the statutes there is little doubt but that the finding in the matter would have been reversed.

Owing to the international importance of the question it will undoubtedly be of great interest to our readers to have. the full text of both findings.

It is perhaps not surprising that during the present period of growth and expansion in Canada a number of anoma

lies should exist. The profession of law, which is after all ultra-conservative, is not exempt from being in this category. A student enters the law school from one of the great universities or as a matriculant, for a specified time, is duly called to the Bar and enrolled as a solicitor for the province in which he has obtained his legal education, and although it is the boast of Canadians that the federal system has its best exemplification in the Canadian constitution, yet the barrister practising in Ontario cannot practice in British Columbia or any other of the western provinces, nor in fact in any other province save the one to the Bar of which he has been called. It is true an excuse may be found in the case of the Province of Quebec, where the civil law is different from that of the other provinces, but even the laws of the Province of Quebec are not so difficult nor intricate that under a general system of legal education a call to the Bar in any one province should not entitle the young barrister to plead in any other province, not even excepting Quebec.

Visitors to Britain very often experience great annoyance when travelling from Scotland to England or Ireland, and vice versa, in finding that with the exception of the bank notes issued by the Banks of England and Ireland, the notes of any other bank are subject to discount, which, from the Canadian or American point of view, is an absurdity. Is it not equally absurd that a barrister of one province should not be permitted to practice at the Bar of another?

An endeavour will be made to obtain the opinions of a number of distinguished gentlemen with the object of doing away with such an anomaly and making it possible that the barrister in Ontario, or British Columbia, or Prince Edward Island, or Quebec, should be entitled to plead at the Bar of any of the other provinces as well as his own.

The following announcement has been issued by the president of the Ontario Bar Association, and as every member of the profession will appreciate the work done by the Association in procuring a revision of the tariff, it is to be hoped that advantage will be taken to send without delay an application for membership:

Toronto, Nov. 8th, 1913.

Dear Sir:-The annual meeting of the association will be held in Toronto on Monday and Tuesday, December 29th and 30th. It is the intention of the association to invite the president of the American Bar Association, William H. Taft (former President of the United States), to deliver an address and to be the guest of honour at the banquet on Monday evening.

In the past year the council of the association took an active part in the revision of the Tariff and Rules of Practice. It urged upon the Government the desirability of appointing a Judge to undertake the work of revision, and the Honourable Mr. Justice Middleton was appointed. Special counsel were then engaged by the association to prepare Supreme Court, County Court, and Surrogate Court tariffs. Upon their suggestion a block system of taxation was submitted and was to a large extent adopted in the new tariff which has recently come into effect.

Members of the council devoted much time to the work. A special committee was appointed and attended on Mr. Justice Middleton from time to time as the new rules and tariff were in course of preparation and conveyed to him the views of the profession on various matters which are now satisfactorily dealt with in the new rules.

A proposal has recently been made that the duty of the Committee on Legal Ethics be extended. Heretofore that committee has only studied the subject of legal ethics and reported at the annual meeting. It is now suggested that the committee should answer inquiries from members of the profession on points arising in regard to professional ethics or etiquette. This suggestion will be considered at the annual meeting.

A special effort is now being made to have every lawyer in the province become a member of the association and to have members who have not remitted for 1913 pay up now.

If you are not a member of the association, or if your fees for this year have not been paid please sign the enclosed application and mail it with one dollar in the enclosed envelope. Yours faithfully,

M. H. LUDWIG,

President.

PERSONAL.

THE NEW LORD CHIEF JUSTICE.

The appointment of Sir Rufus Isaacs as Lord Chief Justice of England has been generally acclaimed as an act of justice due to his distinguished talents and a well-deserved recognition of his commanding claims to high judicial office. It is admitted on all hands that he possesses all the natural and acquired faculties which go to the making of great Chief Justices, and there are few who would withhold from him the proud title to preferment-omnium consensu capax imperii. But to the profession the elevation of this plain merchant's son, born of an ancient but alien race, to the seat of Mansfield, of Ellenborough, and of Cockburn, is specially welcome for the proof it affords that of all careers that of the Bar of England is the one most open to all the talents. The new Lord Chief Justice may be depended upon not only, according to his oath, to "do right to all manner of people after the laws and usages of this realm, without fear or favour, affection or ill-will," but to apply his great administrative powers to the speedying of justice. His aim, if we mistake not, will be to secure that some approach may be made under his chiefship to the ideal, which he himself has proclaimed, that the Courts shall be always open and ready to settle disputes and remedy grievances whenever, and as soon as, they are presented by any of the King's subjects.

THE NEW LAW OFFICERS.

Sir John Simon, who has, in the natural course of events, been promoted from the office of Solicitor-General to the Attorney-Generalship, possesses a capacious and cultured mind and a strong and attractive personality which will enable him to fill with distinction, at the almost unprecedentedly early age of forty, the high position of leader of the English Bar. He fills so great a place in Parliamentary life that his inclusion in the Cabinet, in accordance with the precedent created in the case of Sir Rufus Isaacs, is difficult to criticize, but we still hope that a practice which, by emphasizing the political character of the Attorney-General's