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 Monday June 8 1903

The Judges of the High Court in my opinion when awarding sentence act on the theory that the objects of punishment are (a) retribution (b) the prevention of similar offences generally (c) the prevention of similar offences by the same person (d) reformation of the offender. [...] The writer also attributes the scant respect that is paid to circular orders issued by the High Court for the guidance of the Mofussil Civil Courts to the overworking of the amlas and to the absence of proper supervision of the Civil Courts. [...] Justice Walton held in substance that the Plaintiff had gone to the house at the Defendant's invitation ; and that if reasonable care had been taken by Defendant in the management of the house he would have known of the dangerous condition of the steps. [...] The COURT OF APPEAL held that the commonsense view of the matter was that the invitation of the Defendant to Plaintiff to view the house was not limited to the first visit. [...] Their conclusion was that the second visit to the house was an incdent of an arrangement between the parties and moreover the jury may have come to the conclusion that Defendant had other possible sources of infomation to the condition of the steps.