66 ARTICLES AWAITING PUBLICATION. 'Arising out of and in Course of Employment,' by George A. Kingston, Commissioner Ontario Workmen's Compensation Board. Uniformity of Canadian Company Law: Being the minority report of the Canadian Bar Association. The Companies Act with Special Reference to The Bonanza Case, by Thomas Mulvey, K.C., Under-Secretary of State for Canada. Legal Fictions: I. The Appeal to Cæsar; II. The Fool's Paradise, by M. L. Hayward, Hartland, N.B. Consolidatian and Tacking, by J. D. Falconbridge, Toronto. THE LATE G. H. WATSON, K.C. A contributor has kindly favoured us with the following: 'Mr. George H. Watson, K.C., is a great loss to the Ontario Bar. He was a familiar figure for many years in the higher Courts in Toronto, and Ottawa, and throughout Ontario. Trials in cases of a commercial nature may be said to have been the field in which he specially distinguished himself: but in all kinds of jury trials he was very expert and successful. He was an indefatigable worker, and in all his cases gave himself up unreservedly to the interests of his clients. He never went into Court without the most thorough and careful preparation. 'He was most public spirited in matters in which the interests of the profession were concerned, and was elected a Bencher of the Law Society in the year 1891, and was continuously re-elected a Bencher until he reached the dignity of a permanent position as such by virtue of four successive elections. For a long time, and up to his death, he was Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Law Society, and as such gave ungrudging and valuable service. He never missed a meeting if he could possibly attend. In 1906 he was offered a Supreme Court judgeship, but declined, preferring to continue his active professional work. In 1908 he was retained by the Liberal Government to conduct the Investigation into the Marine Department, as leading counsel for the Crown. He accepted the retainer upon the clear understanding that he should have an absolutely free hand, and pursued the investigation with the utmost rigour in the public interest, with the result that many changes and reforms were made. He was all his life a strong Liberal.' SIR, When the Courts re-open on the 12th inst. after the Long Vacation, there is every indication that the judges will find plenty of work awaiting them. In the King's Bench Division, for instance, 437 jury and non-jury cases had been set down for trial up to October 1st, as against 237 and 387 at the corresponding periods of 1917 and 1916 respectively. The House of Commons re-assembles on the 15th inst. Considerable misapprehension exists with regard to the nature of the arrangement recently concluded whereby the Prime Ministers of the Dominions have been given the right of direct communication with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom on certain matters. It therefore seems desirable to state the exact nature of this arrangement. After preliminary discussion in the recent Imperial War Conference, the subject was considered by the Imperial War Cabinet, where, on July 30th, the following resolutions were passed: 1. (i) The Prime Ministers of the Dominions, as members of the Imperial War Cabinet, have the right of direct communication with the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and vice versa. (ii.) Such communications should be confined to question of Cabinet importance. The Prime Ministers themselves are the judges of such questions. (iii.) Telegraphic communications between the Prime Ministers should, as a rule, be conducted through the Colonial Office machinery, but this will not exclude the adoption of more direct means of communication in exceptional circumstances. 2. In order to secure continuity in the work of the Imperial War Cabinet and a permanent means of consultation during the 'See the Article on The Imperial War Cabinet and the Dominions. by Professor Berriedale Keith, in our November number.-Ed. C. L. T. war on the more important questions of common interest, the Prime Minister of each Dominion has the right to nominate a Cabinet Minister, either as a resident or visitor in London, to represent him at meetings of the Imperial War Cabinet to be held regularly between the parliamentary sessions. It has recently been stated in a section of the oversea press that dissatisfaction with Colonial Office methods of administration was the chief reason why this question was raised. In a communication recently issued by the Press Bureau it is stated that the discussion at the Imperial Conference will shortly be published in a Blue Book, and it will then be seen that this statement is contrary to fact, and that the assumption that the attitude of the Dominions in this respect was inspired by distrust of the Colonial Office was expressly repudiated by the Dominion representatives. The English Bench has suffered a grievous loss by the death of Sir Samuel Evans, the President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division, which took place on September 13th. Samuel Thomas Evans was the son of parents in a humble station of life, and was born at Neath in the County of Glamorgan in 1859. His schooldays over, he took a B.A. degree at the University of London and was admitted a solicitor in 1883. Setting up in practice in his native town he soon acquired a reputation as a shrewd lawyer and a skilful and courageous advocate. His abundant energy, his knowledge of the Welsh language, and his cheery ways brought him plenty of clients; and in 1890 he was elected to the House of Commons as Liberal Member for MidGlamorganshire, a constituency which remained faithful to him for 20 years. He determined to try his fortune at the Bar and was called by the Middle Temple in 1891. The solicitors of South Wales who had already gained in the local courts a knowledge of his powers as an advocate sent him briefs, and within a year or two of his being called to the Bar he was the busiest junior at the Assizes and Quarter Sessions. Meanwhile he was developing into a Parliamentary figure of some importance and could always be relied upon for a telling speech. In 1901, only ten years after becoming a barrister, he was appointed a Q.C., being the last member of the Bar upon whom that honour was conferred in the reign of Queen Victoria. Even as a leader he failed to attract the attention of London solicitors, but he remained the favourite counsel of his compatriots in South Wales; and not infrequently he was engaged in the House of Lords on behalf of appellants or respondents in actions arising out of trade union disputes and under the Workmen's Compensation Acts. When on the death of Sir J. Lawson Walton in 1908 Sir William Robson became Attorney-General, Evans was appointed by Sir H. Campbell-Bannerman to succeed him as Solicitor-General. He filled this office with marked success, especially on the Parliamentary side, and in the House of Commons he made a good figure on the Front Bench. The Cabinet at the time was prolific of legislative schemes, and Evans was called upon to defend its proposals with reference to licensing, hours in coal mines, and the disestablishment of the Welsh Church. In 1910, on the resignation of Sir John Bigham (now Lord Mersey), Evans was appointed President of the Probate, Divorce and Admiralty Division. The appointment was somewhat of a surprise, partly because there had been no such appointment direct from the Bar before, but more especially because Evans had had no special experience in the branches of the law with which the Division is concerned; and the profession, though fully appreciating the ability with which he had discharged his duties as a law officer, was doubtful as to his capacity to fill adequately a position which had been filled by such eminent predecessors. However, the qualities which had won for him his distinguished position at the Bar and in Parliament stood him in good stead on the Bench, and if he did not attain the |