The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday January 7 1929

In trying to epress a construction of the affidavit favouable to the Appellant their Lordships say that it imported no more than that the statement was true to the best of the depnent's knowledge information and belief. [...] When the converse question as to law right to services is presented it is held that because the father has the legal duty to support he is entitled to the services of the child even though it is in the mother's cutody. [...] The dissensions of parents and their comparative misconducts or the award of custody and the right to services are factors practically irrelevant in the detemination of which parent is best able to support the child. [...] 8 of the affidavit containing the-statement both from its nature and also when read in conjuntion with the other paragraphs imports on strict scrutiny no more than a statement based lipon the best of the deponent's knoledge information and belief the extei of which as disclosed by the client to the'Apellant was sufficient to justify the insetion in the affidavit of a paragraph as [...] to which the deponent's assertion was necesarily subject and while they would be slow to impute in all the circumstances moral blame to the Appellant for the omission they think that the standard of care to be exacted from practitioners in the Colony is pre-eminently a matter for the Judges of the local Court.