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29 Medico-Legal J. 1 (1961)

handle is hein.journals/medlgjr29 and id is 1 raw text is: EDITORIAL DIAMOND JUBILEE IT is 6o years since the Medico-Legal Society was founded, and this year's Dinner, to be held at Lincoln's Inn on May 8, will take special cognizance of this fact. The Society, quite simply, aims at the furtherance of medico-legal knowledge in all its aspects. The nature of the papers and discussions indicates that the furtherance of our knowledge is in breadth, rather than depth, and we tend to general treatment as opposed to detailed specialist information on a subject. In this connection the social side of the Society is important. At least as useful as learning itself is the knowledge of where to seek it. Regular attenders at the meetings make many useful contacts in the medico-legal world and, when required, a friendly telephone call may often point the way to a particular expert. This sociability might not appear strictly to further medico-legal knowledge, but it often does so in practice. Development of personal acquaintanceship with those working in similar fields is an important part of the Society's activity. We reproduce a list of Past Presidents. They are elected usually for 2-year periods, and occupants of the Chair are drawn alternately from the Law and from Medicine. Many distinguished men and women have governed our affairs in the past, and will continue to do so in the future. Our membership increases steadily. We gratefully acknowledge the following kind messages which have been sent to us:- From the Lord Chancellor, Viscount Kilmuir, to commemorate the Diamond Jubilee year of the Medico-Legal Society. I am very pleased to have this opportunity of congratulating the Medico-Legal Society on its Diamond Jubilee and of wishing it well for the future. To the Society I can almost say- 0 nata mecum Consule Manlio, and yet 6o years in our profession is a comparatively short time. In that period the Society has achieved a reputation second to none among the members of two profes- sions which include the most penetrating and critical minds in the country. Medicine and the Law have much in common. They are professions demanding the highest degree of intellectual capacity and mental energy; their practitioners are called upon to serve their fellows in those matters which are of the supreme importance to every human being, and it is on their integrity and ability that so many of our vital institutions rely. The paths of our two professions must inevitably cross again and again. The Medico-Legal Society has contributed much to their mutual understanding and instruction, without which neither profession could fulfil its functions properly; it has been able to make this contribution because it has attracted to itself so many who have been pre-eminent among colleagues already distinguished. A Society which has numbered among its presidents Lord Atkin and Sir Bernard Spilsbury needs no further evidence of its standing in legal and medical circles. The Medico-Legal Society has my very best wishes for the future. From Sir Arthur Porrit, K.C.M.G., K.C.V.O., C.B.E., P.R.C.S., President of the Royal College of Surgeons of England. It is a great pleasure-and a privilege-to have the opportunity of congratulating the Medico-Legal Society on its Diamond Jubilee. Over the 6o years the common bonds of interest between our two professions have steadily strengthened. The

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