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 November 22 1909

The Court was moved ex parte for a writ directed to the Secretary of State for the Colonies to bring up the body of Sekgome the chief of the Bata. [...] The Court of King's Bench is the final resort of every British subject seeking to vindicate his personal liberty and at a time when the advance of the official acting in the name of the Crown obstructs more and more the free activity of the individual it is of importance that no technical limits shall be placed on this salutary jurisdiction. [...] In the words of the Earl of Rosebery the President of the Society the compilors of the annual reviews have endeavoured not merely to compile a dry list or register of enactments but to bring out the features of nvelty importance and general interest in each law." The magnitude of the work so far accomplished will appear from the fact that " for the purpose of this survey alone it has be [...] The fact was that a boy ran out in front of the omnibus and the driver had violently to put on the brakes' The skidding was entirely the result of this and if it had not been for the act of the boy it would have been entirely unnecessary to put on the brakes. [...] man who finding at the same time as did the police that the car was breaking the law warned the car so that it slowed down so as to prevent the police from obtaining the only evidence on which accoring to their experience the Courts would act was obstructing the police in the execution of their duty.