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 June 18 1917

A copy of the address presented by the Vakils of the Calcutta High court to Sir Barnes Peacock the first Chief Justice of the Calcutta Court and Sir Barnes Peacock’s reply to the address has been placed at our disposal by 'a' member of the Bar. [...] So long as this peculiar privilege of the English Bar is a part of the English jurisprudence the only means by which the lazy recalcitrant or too busy members of the Bar may be forced to fulfil their moral and we say legal obligations to their clients is by the exercise of the disciplinary jurisdiction of the Court whenever there is any occasion for it. [...] On Wednesday the 21st April 1870 A. D. being a few days previous to the departure from India of the late Chief Justice the pleaders of the Court and a very large assemblage of persons (including the European and native officers of the Appellate High Court) were convened in the large Courroom set apart for the 1st Bench for the purpose of offering a farewell address to the Chief Justice. [...] A man who complains to a village Magis trate of a bailable offence knowing that tk latter must in the ordinary course of his chit; report the substance of the complaint 'to the police gives information to the police just as effectively as if he went in person to the police station and if the police sends up the case it is a case instituted on information given to a police. [...] Even if the Civil Revisional Jurisdiction of the High Court is less wide than that-on the Criminal Side the omission by a Civil Court to specify the statements in respect of which" it bases the charge of 'forgery and to mentiothe forged portion of the document amour at least to a material irregularity justifying interference of the High :Court..