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 March 22 1915

His Excellency the Viceroy said that the Indian Act follows the outlines of the Defence of the Realm Act passed in England after the outbreak of the present European War. [...] Then again early in February last a Bill was read by Lord Parmoor (whose name is very familiar to us as Member of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council) in the House of Lords for the second time for the amendment of the Defence of the Realm Act. [...] (Debate in the House of Lords OIN the Defence of the Realm Act loth 14'ebruary 1915 ) LORD PARMOOR moved the second reading of a Bill to amend the Defence of the Realm Consoldation Act 1914 and to restore to civilians their right to be tried in the ordinary criminal Courts. [...] At the beginning of the great Revoltion that principle stood in the forefront of the Petition.of Rights and when the Revolution ended in the exile of James II it occupied the foremost in the Declaration of Rights. [...] The Goernment did propose to make propositions which would be embodied in a Bill to be introduced either in their Lordships' House or in the House of Commons: When we became involved in the war the Government felt that the country was fighting for its life and therefore they introduced under the Defence of the Realm Act nothing amounting to the State of siege.