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24 Med. Sci. & L. 1 (1984)

handle is hein.journals/mdsclw24 and id is 1 raw text is: Med. Sc. Law (1984) Vol 24, No. 1 Printed in Great Britain Editorial By the time you receive your copy of the journal it will be 1984, and might I on this occasion wish you the compliments of the season and best wishes for the forthcoming year. To those of you who are young members of the Academy, that is to say young in years rather than in age, it is the twenty-fifth year of The British Academy of Forensic Sciences. It was on Friday, 4th September 1959, at the Ciba Foundation, 41, Portland Place, London, WI, (by kind courtesy of the Foundation) that the first meet- ing of the Steering Committee was held prior to forming the Academy. Now, twenty-five years later we still appear to have, on reflection, the same problems facing us as our elders and bet- ters had in 1959, namely the total lack of interest by many ordinary members of the Academy and total inactivity by many of our older members. We are totally dependent upon the hard core of loyal supporters who may have been-be they still alive-members of that said Steering Com- mittee, and Founder Members, or early mem- bers of the Academy. It is your Editor's sincere hope that many more of the younger members of the Academy will show a more active interest in the day-to-day affairs of this organization. On innumerable occasions your Executive Council has suggested and produced excellent Annual Scientific Meetings, particularly on subjects specifically at the request of members of the legal profession, who have generally been noticeable by their absence when such meetings occurred. The paucity of members of the legal profession in their attendance at anything other than knife and fork occasions are well recorded. This year- Olympic Year-your Executive Council has decided to run its Annual Scientific Meeting on the theme 'Medicine, Science, Sport and the Law'. It is interesting to note, however, that the legal profession vis-d-vis sport and in particular the Olympics have been well represented both actively and administratively. Let us sincerely hope that we will have the support of the legal profession in this venture which has at present the support of the British Olympic Association and the Sports Council. However, I have to end my editorial on a most serious note. It is with sincere regret that I have to write the obituaries of two of our more illustrious medical Past-Presidents; Professor Trevor N. C. Gibbens, CBE, and Dr William A. R. ('Bill') Thomson, MD. They will be long remembered as pillars of this Academy. These obituaries can be found on page 73. So let us sincerely hope that our President, The Rt. Hon. Lord *Justice Waller, OBE, can look back on his Presidential year as being one of the mile-stones in the history of The British Academy of Forensic Sciences. 1

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