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 August 15 1927

So far as England Scotlandband a part of Ireland are concerned the prerogative of the King as the Fountain of Justice is now absorbed in the House of Lords but in respect of the Empire beyond the above limits it remains. [...] Another five sit in the House of Lords and of the fifteen those who are Peers of the realm can and do sit on the Committee in the House of Lords alternately. [...] Thai is the reason why even with the growth of selgovernment in the Dominions the status of the Committee as the Court of supreme appellate authority to which Dominion suitors can carry their disputes has remained intact. [...] judicial authority in respect of the whole Empire will vest where it logically should—in the King in CounciBut the most interesting parts of the article are those dealing with the scene that is witnessed daily in the room where the Committee sits. [...] The contention that the use of the word accused " negatives. the intention of the legislature that sec.