The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday December 3 1928

On resumption of the sittings of the Judi— cial Committee of the Privy Council in Octo— ber last (Michaelmas sittings) appeals from India put down in the list were found to far outnumber those from the rest of the British Empire. [...] As is the exterior so is the interior marked by an entire absence of anything to indicate the wide extent of the jurisdiction of which the Committee takes cognisance or the extraordinary diversity of laws that here find their ultimate exposition. [...] We commend the following observations of Lord Shaw in the concluding portion of his speech at the Magistrates' Conference recently held in England not only for the guidance of the Magistrates in this country but also of all who are interested in or conected with the administration of the criminal law including the Executive Goernment. [...] There is the great function of the magistrates of England It was in that sphere that I had the honour twenty years ego of helping in the construction of the Children's Act and the Probation Act. [...] You may watch them with the assistance of the Probation Officer and in dealing with the children you have—under Section 107 of the Children's Act—one of the greatest charters of freedom that ever was penned.