The Calcutta Weekly 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 December 19 1921

We are glad to be able to announce that in pursuance of fur representation the Goverment bas given directions that the trials of the volunteers and others charged with sedition and other political offences held in the Presdency Magistrate’s Court will be in open Court and not in camera: The members of the Bar and the public may attend the trials up to the limit of the capacity of the Court. [...] We congratulate the Government for directing the attention of the Presidency Magistrate to this matter and alsc the members of the general puNic whose coduct in and about the Courts during these trials has been exemplary. [...] to impress upon the Prince the idea that the people of India are not satisfied with the bureaucratic powers of the executive in country. [...] Not the claimant f he is poor and unable to meet the expenses of -the litigation which he must commence and fight to the finis he is to have his own—expenses which in existing conditions' seldom bear a reasonable: propotion to the matter at stake and which tend to increase indefinitely with the means 'and-' rsources of the opponent. [...] It was just the time when the highanded violence of the powerful feudal lords was beginninto he tempered by the skilful utilisation of the law and the law Courts by others less endowed with force than wile.