A SPECTATOR'S NOTEBOOK
ONE Cabinet change which has what may be termed extra-political consequences is the appointment of Lord Hailsham to succeed Lord Sankey as Lord Chancellor. Why Lord Sankey should be disappearing at all is a question of some interest in itself. However that may be, there is, I gather, some apprehension in legal circles that the change may slow down, or stop altogether, the substantial progress at present being made in legal reform. Lord Sankey had a good deal to do with the adoption of the " new procedure " devised to make litigation less dilatory and less expensive, and there is much more to be done in that direction yet. Lord Hailsham is very much of a conservative in this as in other matters, and the Inns of Court are by no means sanguine that he will look with favour on the idea of more law reform. But the Inns of Court are not infallible, and in this case they may be wrong.
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