' That the Law is too complicated '
This is the first of four unfinished debates on legal questions, which form a controversial postscript to the recent informative talks on the law by Lord Macmillan and Mr. Fifoot. The subject of these debates concern, the impact of the law upon society, and in a sense are more social than legal. Cheaper and quicker justice is an urgent social necessity. British traditions of justice and its administration are the highest in the world, but the increasing complexity of legal procedure puts obstacles in the way of justice : simplification and reform are needed. Each speaker in this debate will talk for fifteen minutes : the proposer has no right of reply, but he will have seen his opponent's speech before making his own. No attempt to reconcile conflicting views with a pale compromise will be made; listeners will be left to finish the debate themselves, with the facts fresh in their minds.