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 14 1921

A somewhat lively controversy appears to have arisen in Canada and England with rference to the statement made by Jord Cave on his return from the former country that the balance of legal opinion in Canada favours the maintenance of the jurisdiction of the Privy Council to hear appeals from the Courts of Canada. [...] J. S. Ewart E. C. of Ottawa has written to the London Times pointing out that Lord Cave was in Canada but a few weeks and that Canadians were usually too polite to express to him any criticism of the Judicial Committee of which he himself was a member and he points to the Language of the Dominion statesmen at the Imperial Conferences as a surer index of opinion in Canada. [...] At the meeting of the Bengal Lanholders' 'Association in DeCamber last the Maharajadbiraj of Durbhanga enteredta strong plea in favour of the establishment 4.4 Final Court of Appeal in India on the score of the prohibitively expensive chairacter (*the exising system of taking appeals to Englar4 The proposal recently outlined by the prtsent Lord Chancellor of increasing 'the so-called “ [...] The solution of the problem appears to depend upon the early establishment of a Ministry of Justice in the Government of itirkei in the charge of an Indian' lawyer of II-4 ifighesti eminence in whose hands should regt the itp pointment of Judges not merely of final Court of Appeal but also on the benches of the 73Trimmotan kwinarrx Nopittif. [...] If a Will appears on the face of it to have been executed and attested in accordance. with the requirements of the Act the maxim Otinnia praNumuntur rite isse Ma" applies unless it is clearly proved by the attesting witnesses that the Will was not in fact duly executed.