IN view of the fact that the Synod constituted the Committee and defined its remit before a November Synod meeting was fixed, the Committee are only able to furnish a brief report at the moment.
The Committee has met twice and a Sub-Committee on four occasions, but only the preliminary stages of the work have been overtaken. Recognising that the Fourth Edition of “Moncrieff” is not now easily procurable and that it is eminently desirable that some manual be available for office-bearers affording a practical exposition of the practice and procedure of the Church Courts as set forth in “Moncrieff,” in “Church Documents” and in the various resolutions and deliverances of the Synod, the Committee recommend to the Synod
that there be prepared and published a “Handbook for Office-bearers on the Practice and Procedure of the Church Courts” bearing the sub-title “Based upon ‘Moncrieff’s Law and Practice of the Free Church of Scotland (fourth Edition) and upon Resolutions and Deliverances of the Synod of the Free Presbyterian Church of Scotland.'”
The Committee further recommend that the Synod empower them to obtain legal advice upon any matters which in the opinion of the Committee may so require.