The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts May 21 1900

The difference betfeen the Hon and the Colonial Government and the compromise likely to be effected in the matter may go permanently to alter the constitution of the final court of Appeal from India. [...] Haldane after recounting the services rendered by the Judicial Committees of the Privy Council and the House of Lords suggests the folloAng most satifactory meanfsiof settlement of the difference between the Colonies and the Mother Country :- " The Empirehas developed enormously within the last few years. [...] In the last three years Sir Henry Strong the Chief Justice of Canada Sir Henry de Villiers the Chief Justice of the Cape and Sir Samuel Way one of the Australasian Chief Justices have from time to time sat as the represeritatives in the Imperial tribunal of these parts of the umpire. [...] The next and by no means of less importance is the practice in the Privy Council of delivering judgment by one of the members in the name of the Committee. [...] Or in other words the people of India must be assured that whatever name the Court may now assume it will as in the past wield the sovereign prerogative in the interest of justice alone and in the memorable words of Lord Macnaghten that " the arms of the Court would be long enough to reach the offender whatever his position might be " (Fischer v. The Secretary of State for India in Council