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 23 1928

Keith who is the greatest authority on Dominion Constitution in the last issue of the Journal of the Society of Comparative Legislation points out certain anomalies in the relationship of the Crown and the Dominions that can hardly be rconciled with the present status of the latter as equal members of the British Commonwealth. [...] Since the Imperial Conference of 1926 the Dominions have however become independent of the King in Parliament or in other words of the British Governnènt though not of the King. [...] 15 of the Letters Patent of the Court provided for an appeal to the High Court against the decision of a single Judge of the Court but under the change now made such appeal will lie only when the Judge against whose decision it is intended to prefer an appeal certifies 45alvi THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES. [...] 108 of the Government of India Act made in the exercise of Appellate Jurisdiction in repect of a decree or order made in the execise of Appellate Jurisdiction by a Court subject to the superintendence of the said High Court when the Judge who passed the judgment declares that the case is a fit one for appeal; but that the right of appeal Iron: other judgments of Judges of the said High Court [...] At the trial the evidence of the witnesses was dictated to a typist by the Munsif and a copy of the typed record was revised and signed by him with the addition at the end of each deposition of the words: " Dictated by me to avoid eystrain." In their appeal to the Subordinate Judge the Petitioners contended that there was no legal evidence in the case as what evidence there was had not be