The South African Outlook2025-04-102025-04-101963http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11837/2809The November issue of Race Relations New contains a statement by the Honourable O.D. Schreiner, former Judge of the Supreme Court of South Africa, who is now President of the Institute of Race Relations. The statement is prefaced by a quotation from the famous jurist, Bacon, "It is oppression to torture laws so that they torture men" and goes on to say that the systems of "House Arrest" has grave implications in its threat to the established canon of the Law.en