ABSTRACT
It is, of course, largely impossible to generalise from the responses from the 19 countries received in the sense of discovering supra-national trends or patterns. Even between those countries which have a shared cultural or legal heritage, variations in practice were expected to be considerable and the content of the responses bears this out. However, these truisms do not lead to a counsel of despair; the fact that everything cannot be achieved did not mean that nothing should be attempted.
