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 January 11 1926

Ramsay MacDonald moved: “That the action of the Government in initiating the prosecution of certain members of the Communist party is a violation of the traditional British rights of freedom of speech and publication of opinion.” It is perfectly clear in the first place that the Government did not initiate the prosecution; and secondly that the offences for which the accused were convicted wore [...] According to one of them the jury must be satisfied from a consideration of all the considerations under which the statement was published that the Defendant meant the Plaintiff regardless of whether or not those circumstances were known to the readers. [...] A lot of useful informtion such as the personnel of the Government of 'India and of the Provincial Governments the material provisions of the Court Fees the Stamp and Registration Acts the postal rates weights and measures are given. [...] Any treatise dealing with the development of International law during the 20th century must of necessity devote a very tape proportion of space to the " law of war " as most of the conventions treaties and pacts during this period are directed towards the reguiabion of the conduct of states in their anormal relations with one another. [...] The book as a whole is a masterly expostion of the entire panorama of the development of International law within the last 25 years and the work is worthy of the author and the University which made such an excellent choice of the subject and the lecturer.