OXFORD JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES VOLUME 14 Published on behalf of The Faculty of Law, University of Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1994 General Editor: J. Eekelaar Editorial Committee: P. Cane, S. Gardner, C. Gray, J. Hackney, J. Horder, N. Lacey, C. McCrudden, E. McKendrick, D. Prentice Oxford University Press, Walton Street, Oxford OX2 6DP Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dares Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associate companies in Beirut Berlin Ibadan Nicosia © Oxford University Press 1994 except where otherwise indicated CONTENTS ARTICLES Couns, HuGH, Good Faith in European Contract Law CralG, PAuL, Legality, Standing and Substantive Review in Community Law GARDNER, JOHN, Criminal Law and the Uses of Theory: A Reply to Laing HorDER, JEREMY, Rethinking Non-Fatal Offences against the Person JaBBARI, Davip, Some Observations on Critical Theory in Administrative Law KINcK, DENNIS R., “This other Eden”: Lord Denning’s Pastoral Vision LaInG, J. A., The Prospects of a Theory of Criminal Culpability: Mens Rea and Methodological Doubt Lucy, WILLIAM N. R., Criticizing and Constructing Accounts of Legal Reasoning MACCOoRMICK, NEIL, The Concept of Law and The Concept of Law RosBerts, PAut, Science in the Criminal Process RUDDEN, BERNARD, Things as Thing and Things as Wealth SEYMOUR, JOHN, Parens Patriae and Wardship Powers: Their Nature and Origins ZUCKERMAN, ADRIAN, Quality and Economy in Civil Procedures: the Case for Commuting Correct Judgments for Timely Judgments REVIEW ARTICLES Beck, ANTHONY, Is Law an Autopoietic System? HarLow, Caro, Changing the Mindset: the Place of Theory in English Administrative Law Lacey, NIco.a, Abstraction in Context Lucy, WILLIAM N. R., Rethinking the Common Law OFFER, AVNER, Lawyers and Land Law Revisited Warp, IAN, From Literature to Ethics: The Strategies and Ambitions of Law and Literature Wuire, Rosin, C. A., The Legal System: Knowledge, Scholarship and Policy YouNG, RICHARD and SAUNDERS, ANDREW, The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice: A Confidence Trick? SHORTER ARTICLES BarKER, Kit, Are we up to Expectations? Solicitors, Beneficiaries and the Tort/ Contract Divide Durr, Peter, The Prosecutor Fine ENONCHONG, NELSON, Illegality: the Fading Flame of Public Policy GARDNER, SIMON, The Importance of Majewski GRANT, EvADNE and SMALL, JOAN, G., Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers in the House of Lords: Molecular rather than Molar Motion HERMAN, Dip1, The Good, the Bad and the Smugly: Perspectives on the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms Kei, Davin, Social Disutility and the Law of Consent KRAMER, MATTHEW H., False Conclusions from True Premises: Warnings to Legal Theorists Sty.es, Scotr C., The Rule of Parliament: Statutory Intrepretation after Pepper v Hart Wits, Wouter P. J., Insurance Risk Classification in the EC: Regulatory Outlook LEGISLATION [Entries refer to statutes receiving substantial discussion or criticism in this volume] UNITED KINGDOM Abortion Act 1967 Children Act 1989 s 100 Criminal Justice (Scotland) Act 1987 s 56 566 et seq Criminal Law Act 1967 339 et seq Guardianship of Infants Act 1925 sl 184, 187 Law of Property Act 1925 84 s 1(1) 89 s2 89 s 205(1)(x) 89 Legal Aid Act 1988 99 et seq Lega! Services Act 1990 99 et seq Limitation Act 1980 363 et seq Offences against the Person Act 1861 s18 339, 345 s 20 123 et seq s 39 338-9, 343 s 47 122 et seq Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984 s 78 446-7 Statute of Uses 1535 164 Supreme Court of Judicature Act 1873 178 Tenures Abolition Act 1660 164-5, 172, 174 Unfair Contract Terms Act 1977 239 et seq EUROPEAN COMMUNITY EC Treaty Art 6 466 Art 28 463-4 Art 39 524 et seq Art 40(3) 524 et seq Art 43 525 et seq Art 52 405 Art 59 466-7 Art 119 404-5 Art 173 507 et seq Art 177 522 ECSC Treaty Art 33 523, 530-1 Unfair Terms in Consumer Contracts Directive 1993 229 et seq Art 1 422 Art 1(2) 422 et seq Art 2 239 et seq Art 3(3) 251 Art 4(2) 238, 249, 252 Art 5 247-8 Art 6 244 Art 7(2) 244 Annex 1 241 OTHER COUNTRIES Charter of Rights and Freedoms (1982) (Can) 589-604 s15 590 et seq CASES {Entries refer to cases receiving substantial discussion or criticism in this volume] A. E. Piraiki-Petraiki vyC ommission (1985) (EC) 511-12 Airedale NHS Trust v Bland (1993) 2 et seq, 19, 22 Air Express Ltd v Ansett Transport Industries etc (1979-81) 375-7 iv Alexander Moksel Import-Export GmbH & Co Handels KG v Commission (1982) (EC) 515 Alfred Toepfer and Getreide-Import Gesellchaft vyC ommission (1965) (EC) 512 Allied Corporation v Commission (1984) (EC) 517 American Cyanamid Co v Ethicon Ltd (1975) 370 et seq Attorney-General v Guardian Newspapers (No 2) (1990) 288 et seq Balkan-Import-Export GmbH v Hauptzollampt Berlin Packhof (1973) (EC) 531 Berry v Warnett (1982) 88 Beswick v Beswick (1968) 142 Bognor Regis Urban District Council vyC ampion (1972) 288, 290 Bowmakers v Barnet Instruments Ltd (1944) 298 et seq Calpak SpA and Societa Emiliana Lavorazione Frutta SpA v Commission (1980-81) (EC) 513-15 Cambridge Nutrition Ltd v British Broadcasting Authority Corp (1990) 371-2 CNTA v Commission (1975) (EC) 533 Compagnie Francaise De L-Azote (COFAZ) SA v Commission (1986) (EC) 519 Corpus Christi College v Gloucester County Council (1983) 31-2 Derbyshire County Council v Times Newspapers (1993) 287-94 DPP v Majewski (1977) 279-86 Ex parte Central Electricity Generating Board (1982) 44-5 Ex parte Hooke (1976) 38 Falkland v Bertie (1696) 167-8, 173 Gartside v Sheffield, Young & Ellis (1983) 137 Gillick v West Norfolk and Wisbech Area Health Authority (1986) 181-2 Glucoseries Réunies v Commission (1964) (EC) 511 Hinz v Berry (1970) 48 International Chemical Corporation (ICC) v Amministrazione delle Finanze dello Stato (1980/1) (EC) 529-30 Launchbury v Morgans (1973) 208, 213 Local Government Board v Arlidge (1915) 203, 206, 210 Merkur GmbH v Commission (1973) (EC) 534 Metro-SB-Grossmarkte GmbH & Co KG v Commission (1977) (EC) 518 Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Green (1980) 49 Midland Bank Trust Co Ltd v Green (No 3) (1982) 48-9 Miller v Jackson (1977) 44 Morgan v Dillon (1724) 169 et seq Neath (1991) (EC) 464-5 New Windsor Corporation v Mellor (1975) 29-30, 31 Official Solicitor to the Supreme Court v K and Another [In re K (Infants)] (1965) 185 Oxy Electric Ltd v Zainuddin (1990) 374-5 Parti Ecologiste ‘Les Verts’ v Parliament (1986) (EC) 519-20, 527 Pepper v Hart (1992) 151-8, 201 Plaumann & Co v Commission (1963) (EC) 508 et seq R v Bourne (1938) 2-3, 12 R v Boyea (1992) 121, 129 R v Brown (1993) 2, 122 et seq R v Cunningham (1957) 283 et seq R v Donovan (1934) 121, 129 R v Electricity Commissioners (1924) 204, 206, 210 R v Gyngall (1893) 159 et seq, 173 R v Intervention Board, ex p Man (Sugar) Ltd (1985) (EC) 529 R v Jobidon (1991) (Can) 127-8 R v Robertson (1946) (Can) 348 R v Secretary of State, ex p AMA (1986) 212 R v Secretary of State for Trade, ex p Vardy and Others (1992) 212 R v The Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State for Health, ex p Fedesa (1990) (EC) 534-5 Re Brocklehurst’s Estate (1978) 39 Re R (a minor) (wardship medical treatment) 159 et seq, 179 et seq Re Weston’s Settlement Trusts (1969) 25-6, 50, 52 Re X (A Minor) (1975) 184, 185 Reid (1992) 282 et seq Ridge v Baldwin (1964) 191, 197, 210 Ross v Caunters (1980) 137 et seq S v McC; W v W (1972) 184-5 SA Biovilac NV v European Economic Community (1984) (EC) 531 Secretary, Department of Health and Community Services v JWB and Another (1992) (Aus) 160n, 181 et seq Smith v Eric S. Bush (1990) 247, 249, 252 Société CAM SA v Commission (1975) (EC) 513 Sydall v Castings (1967) 47 Timex Corporation v Council and Commission (1985) (EC) 516-17 Tinsley v Milligan (1993) 295 et seq Veysey v Corr Serv of Canada (1989) (Can) 592-3 White v Jones (1993) 137 et seq