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Abstract
The progress made in England under the Judicature Acts of 1873 and 1875, with occasional revisions of procedure, has a deep interest for the American lawyer in search of judicial efficiency. In recent years a number of our lawyers have studied the English courts at first hand and upon their return have spread the news of great accomplishments in the home of the common law. These enthusiastic reports have been subjected to incisive criticism, so that controversy has arisen, and it has been difficult to determine to what extent inference from undoubted facts would apply to our own unsettled conditions. Or, quite as commonly, conservatism has answered enthusiasm for an alien model by way of confession and avoidance. It is admitted that England administers justice with dispatch and certainty but asserted that legal and social traditions there are mainly responsible and we Americans could not avail through adoption of their administrative machinery.
Recommended Citation
Herbert Harley,
Ontario Courts and Procedure,
12
Mich. L. Rev.
339
(1914).
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