ABSTRACT
The author proposes here briefly to narrate the facts of the case, to consider the judgments to which it has given rise, and to draw certain general inferences as to the relation of judicial control to legislative action. Poplar is one of the twenty-eight boroughs into which the administrative county of London is divided for the purpose of local self-government. The functions allotted to him are described so clearly in the first of these Acts that it is worth while setting out the relevant section in full. That would be a situation as inconceivable and intolerable as if the Comptroller and Auditor-General were to seek to prevent the Board of Education from spending money on its system of inspection. Many social philosophers have insisted that it is the business of governmental agencies to set an example to private employers in the conduct of their enterprises.
