LEGAL DEVELOPMENTS: The Donovan Report on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations Available to Purchase

BEFORE examining the major recommendations of the Royal Commission on Trade Unions and Employers' Associations it is perhaps useful to restate the brief to which the Commission worked. It was “to consider relations between managements and employees and the rôle of trade unions and employers' associations in promoting the interests of their members and in accelerating the social and economic advantage of the nation, with particular reference to the law affecting the activities of these bodies and report”. This was the fifth Royal Commission to be set up to review the topic in the past hundred years, the first having been appointed in 1871 and the others in 1874, 1891 and 1903.