The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcuta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday September 8 1913

WE BEG TO ACKNOWLEDGE WITH THANKS AN authoritative communication from a responsible officer of the Presidency Court of Small Causes at Bombay regarding the past and present practice in that Court relating io the execution of Commissions for the examination of wi'nesses by Officers of the Court and have great pleasure in publishing the same. [...] The Petitioner was charged with the offence of atempting to fabricate false evidence against the coplainant to the effect that the complainant offered to give bribes and threatened people in the matter of a municipal election for the purpose of using such false evidence in a judicial proceeding namely in a proceeing before the District Judge under sec. [...] re the practice of the Court of Small Causes at Calcutta to appoint Bench Cierks as Commissioners in suits pending before it or transferred to it by other Courts for the purpose of taking evidence on commission it may be intere-tine for yo.: to know that the practice in the Court of Small Causes at Bombay also was until recently to a great extent what it is said to be noa in Calcutta but that it h [...] The the accused persons for trial to the Magistrate's Curt The complainant was exaniined and the trial was im)sponed till the 7th June on which date the complainant applied to the Magistrate to be allowed to withdraw from the case urging that the accused pers ns were his labourers ; that they had agreed to restore the property which he had accused them of misappropria..ing and that as the rai [...] The trial was one falling under the provisions of Chap XXI of the Code and an order of acquittal could be pronounced only it after the framing of a charge the Magistrate was of opinion that the evidence was insufficient to justify a conviction.