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 August 26 1912

Before we go into the views of the Appellate Court we must observe that we do not consider it at all proper on the part of the counsel for the Appellan s in this case to have formulated some questions in their own way with regard to the decision of the first Court and with reference to the facts of a case which was still pending before the Appeal Court and sutmitted them for the opinion of the Ba [...] The Bar Council expressly say that in the case of its becoming apparent before the concluding of the evidence in the case" that Counsel is a witness on a material question of fact he might retire from the case if he can do so " without jeopardising the interests of his client." Since it did not appear to the trial Judge before the concluding of the evidence that Mr. [...] If the statement was taken down in writing by the witness or by some one in the presence of the witness the witness would be entitled to refresh his memory by referring to such writing ; otherwise the writing itself is not relevant unless it is in the nature of a deposition taken in the presence of the accused. [...] After the time named for the dedication had arrived this suit was brought by the heir of A in the Court of a Subordinate Judge to eject Defendants as trespassers from the house to get posession of property for the appointment of trustees the settlement of a scheme and other reliefs which fell within the scope of sec. [...] The Petitioner moved the High Court and obtained a Rule calling on the District Magistrate to show cause why the conviction and sentence should not be set aside on the ground that in the absence of any evidence or finding to show that the Petitioner intended to give false evidence by making the statement alleged to be false and especially in view of the findings of the Sessions Judge showing that