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60 Medico-Legal J. 3 (1992)

handle is hein.journals/medlgjr60 and id is 1 raw text is: MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL Founded 1901 1992 Vol. 60 Part One EDITORIAL THE MEDICO-LEGAL JOURNAL 1932 -1992 The front cover of this issue, and subsequent issues this year, will proudly proc- laim the Diamond Jubilee of the Medico-Legal Journal. As with all anniversaries we can use the occasion not only to look back and remember but also to look forward. The publication of the Proceedings of the Medico-Legal Society has under- gone several changes since the inauguration of the Society on December 5th 1901. Initially the Transactions of the Medico-Legal Society were published and recorded, as in the present Journal, as verbatim reports of the meetings of the society. By 1932 the irregularity of publication was causing concern and, at a meeting on February 25th 1932 the following resolution was passed: That the Society do, in future, issue its Transactions Quarterly, and that there be included with them an epitome of current home and foreign publications bearing on medico-legal subjects; and that an Editorial Committee be appointed ....... and that the publication be on sale to non-members at three shillings per copy. The quarterly Medico-Legal and Criminological Review thus conceived was first published later in 1932 and it is that publication that we are celebrating this year. In the forward to the first issue the President of the Society, Lord Riddell, wrote that the aim of the publication was to provide a complete survey of medico-legal and criminological subjects. A huge brief but one that in 1932 was needed to fill a void in the publications then available. The Review lived up to those early expectations and contained not only the reports of the Society's meetings but also a considerable number of short reviws of relevant articles and reports published in other medical and legal journals from both England and abroad. Also included was a section reporting Medico- Legal questions in Parliament. The Review grew year by year reflecting the tre- mendous interest in Medico-Legal affairs and the burst of activity in scientific research in the inter-war years. A short paragraph in part 4 of Volume XIV in 1946 announced the demise of the Medico-Legal and Criminological Review. The reason given was that the

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