Mr. Justice John Howard Sissons

John Howard Northrop

On Ju ly 5, 1981, John Howard Northrop will reach the venerable age of four score and ten. He is active and well for a man of his age but a bit unhappy that his diminished eyesight makes him no longer the skeet supermarksman he once was. The Editors of The Journal of General Physiology and some of Dr. Northrop's friends wish to use this occasion to express their grati tude for his 62-year-long ...

John Howard the Great Communicator : No , Really !

The rough and tumble of John Howard’s public school education left him with an electorally appealing ordinariness in a party renowned for a born to rule attitude. Howard was not brought up with the sense of noblesse oblige of an establishment figure such as Malcolm Fraser. His father owned a small petrol station and John Howard worked there on weekends while at school. Howard’s background may h...

Mr. Ralph Arthur John Baily

The Late Mr. John W. Davies

Report of Mr . Justice John L . Murray , President of the Supreme Court and Chief Justice of Ireland Methods of Interpretation – Comparative Law Method

the interpretation of legal texts such as statutes and constitutions has presented problems from the earliest times to the present day. plato urged that laws be interpreted according to their spirit rather than literally. Voltaire expressed the view that to interpret the law is to corrupt it. montesquieu viewed the judge as simply the mechanical spokesman of the law. the role of the Judge has b...