/library/oar/handle/123456789/70053 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 21:04:08 GMT 2025-10-31T21:04:08Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/70502 Title: The Law Journal : Volume 2 : Issue 6 Abstract: The Law Journal was, at the time, the first and only local legal publication on our island. Its existence was indicative of a lacuna, one which academics would not fill. It took a group of law students, balancing their studies and other commitments, to organise such a publication. Sun, 01 Jan 1950 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/70502 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/70501 Title: Editorial [The Law Journal : Volume 2 : Issue 6] Abstract: IT is with a keen appreciation of the vision and spirited activity of the law students of previous courses who started the Law Society and strove to fulfil its aims that we take over the management of the Law Journal. Varied activities in the form of lectures, debates and reading of papers on legal topics particularly marked the first flush of life of our society. This year two very interesting lectures were delivered under the auspices of the Law Society. Prof. W. Buhagiar, who for about the last three years has been Federal Counsel at the Attorney General's office in far-away Malaya, recorded his personal impressions of life in the Federated States against a background of that country's history and constitutional development. Another lecture on "The Privy Council, Criminal Appeals'', was delivered by Prof. A. Mamo, who in his usual lucid way of self-expression gave an account of the constitution, purpose and working of the highest court of appeal in the British Commonwealth. Prof. Mamo had a good opportunity of getting a firsthand knowledge of the subject he treated during his visit to the Privy Council in connection with the now famous Connell Case (1944). We have to deplore, however, the poor attendance at these lectures. not only on the part of members of the Law Society but also of members of the legal profession. Former students of law could sensibly help the University Students' Law Society by subscribing to the Law Journal. An increased circulation of our Journal amongst them would help us meet the very heavy printing expenses for which the University yearly grant is altogether insufficient. Sun, 01 Jan 1950 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/70501 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/70500 Title: Law-making and the Roman jurists Abstract: THE ''Law Journal'' published by the Students' Law Society bears on its cover the very significant motto Legum servi sumus ut liberi esse possimus. The motto is very significant. It may be considered as the historical synthesis of Man's efforts to establish the very basis of personal freedom within an organised community regulated by a set of laws, which guarantee him such freedom at the price of a partial restriction ·of his own liberty of action within the same society. Sun, 01 Jan 1950 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/70500 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/70499 Title: Psychiatric approach to the study and treatment of the adult offender Abstract: THIS paper deals with certain psychiatric principles underlying the problem of crime and its remedy, and tries to present tentative suggestions, in broad outline, as to how such principles may be applied in the treatment of the law breaker. It offers no fool-proof solution of the eradication of crime but it is hoped that it will induce others to explore in all seriousness the various channels that may lead to a better understanding of the psychology of the offender and to a more efficacious penal system. Sun, 01 Jan 1950 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/70499 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z