Introduction

Abstract

INTRODUCTION|The administration of justice would be a simple matter if it involved only the application of time-tested principles to static conditions. But conditions change. And the law- ideally the expression of the community's sense of justice- must change with them. Undirected change in the law, however, can be even more disruptive of the orderly functioning of society than blind reliance on the past, for the latter at least affords a degree of predictability. Change under a regime of law means ordered, purposeful change. And the quest for purpose entails debate...