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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS:-
This Report owes much to previous studies undertaken by the
late Mr. J.A.H. de Brauw and by Me. E. Gilson de Rouvreux
for the Commission Consultative, and to the study by Stephen
Stewart and David Vaughan published in the Law Society's
Gazette, 5 November 1975. The author would also like to
express his gratitude for the help and encouragement which
he received from all those mentioned on the title page,
particularly Dr. Heinrich Huchting who refused, for reasons
of modesty rather than of justice, to be described as co-author;
from many other friends and colleagues in the Commission
Consultative, the Faculty of Advocates, the University of
Edinburgh and elsewhere in Europe; from Dr. H. Golsong,
Director of Legal Affairs, Council of Europe; and last, but
by no means least, the long-suffering secretaries who typed
the Report and innumerable preliminary drafts but who, for
reasons best known to themselves, prefer to remain anonymous.