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27 Can. B. Rev. 988 (1949)
Reviews and Notices

handle is hein.journals/canbarev27 and id is 1016 raw text is: Reviews and Notices The Heralds of the Law. By C. G. MORAN, of the Inner Temple, Barrister-at-Law. London: Stevens and Sons, Ltd. Toronto: The Carswell Company, Limited. 1948. Pp. 114. ($5.25) This is a well written book, in which Mr. Moran, besides telling the story of law reporting and law reporters, the Heralds of the Law as he calls them, deals with matters that are of great practical importance today. He tells us in his preface that in 1903 he met outside the Divisional Court an editor of law reports who said to him, Go in and report the case in the list- one of the coronation seat cases -you are sure to find some tag in the judgment which will serve as a head-note. He did so and he adds, From that date, I have spent two-thirds of my life in part-time law reporting. His experience is reminiscent of a similar episode in the life of Sir George Rose as told by Lord Campbell in his Life of Lord Chancellor Eldon -Eldon who with all his great qualities found it hard ever to make up his mind about a case because so many doubts presented themselves to his ever active brain. Campbell records that Rose when at the Bar, having the note book of the regular reporter of Lord Eldon's decisions put into his hand with a request that he would take a note for him of any decision which should be given, entered in it the following lines as a full record of all that was material which had occurred during the day: Mr. Leach Made a speech Angry, neat, but wrong: Mr. Hart On the other part Was heavy, dull, and long: Mr. Parker Made the case darker, Which dark enough without: Mr. Cooke Cited his book, And the Chancellor said - 'I doubt'. I shall leave it to any one interested to read, in Campbell, the amusing sequel when the report reached Lord Eldon's ears. In many ways Rose produced almost an ideal report. We have all learned some scraps of law put into rhyme - that is the only reason the Rule in Shelley's case remains lodged in my memory - and I wonder what became of the work of the young student who set out

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