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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 May 3 1909

1909

II where on an appeal from a conviction of murder and sentence of death opt the ground that the negligence of counsel was such as to vitiate the trial the Supreme Court is reported to have said : The neglect of an attorney is the neglect of his client in respect to the court and his adversary. [...] THE AUTHOR OF THE ADDRESS DRAWS THE FOlowing Prioral from the above and similar instances of a failure of justice due to the shortcomings of counsel : The litigant untrained in the law and unused to its mysteries must bear the burden of the blunders of the Court and counsel grievous as these may be. [...] I and 2 the proceedings of the Magistrate up to and inclusive of the passing by him of an order for either re-payment of the advance or performance of the contract do not constitute a trial for any offence' as defined in the Criminal Procedure Code." (Chandavarkar and Aston JJ) An offence under the Workmen's Breach of Contract Act cannot be tried summarily. [...] The first edition of the present work takes us back to the year 1826 when the author of the original treatise was able to state with considerable truth that "the rapid extension of commerce and the variety and increase of the transactions of makind have furnished and constantly supply fresh and abundant materials for a renewed and fresh investigation of this subject." The same causes have fu [...] From this judgment of the High Court the Appellants now sought leave to appeal and after argument Lord Atkinson delivering the judgment of the Judicial Committee said that leave to appeal would be granted upon the usual terms as to secrity for costs but that the Respondent would be at liberty to raise the question of rectification again before the Board without the necessity of filing a cross p
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