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8 MLAANZ Journal 3 (1991)

handle is hein.journals/ausnewma8 and id is 1 raw text is: Frank Stewart Dethridge Memorial Address 1990 Rt Hon Sir Owen Woodhouse* In this address to the 1990 Annual Conference of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand Sir Owen notes the effort being made in various parts of the world and by various means to keep laws abreast of contemporary social and commercial needs at both the domestic and international level, and the Australian and New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Agreement in particular. It is now fourteen years since the death of the founding President of the Maritime Law Association of Australia and New Zealand. It says a great deal about the quality of the man that each year since then he has been directly remembered by a memorial address delivered at your annual conference. It says something, too, about the steady affection of his friends and colleagues and their continuing apprecia- tion of his work. Be sure that the invitation to deliver the 1990 Frank Stewart Dethridge address is a compliment which I value. It would be superfluous and even unwise if I were to attempt this morning to shed new light on any of those arcane areas of maritime law which are the natural bread and butter of members of this Association - perhaps I might add, and their natural bedtime reading. So I put aside such fascinations as salvage and bottomry and deviation and the navigational rights of the yacht under sail as against the stolid claims of the dumb barge under tow. Instead, I would like to say something about two topics which in a way are related. The first concerns the efforts being made in various parts of the world and by various means to keep laws abreast of contemporary social and commercial needs. These movements are at work both at the domestic level, within the jurisdiction of various countries; and also on a wider basis where the task is to achieve unified laws across national boundaries. Their importance cannot be overstated since good law provides the kind of assurance by which people and nations are able to live and to work comfortably together. * KBE, DSC, President of the New Zealand Court of Appeal 1981-1986; President of the Law Commission 1986-1990.

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