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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 short notes of important decisions of other High Courts in India Monday November 26 1934

1934

With regard to the limited reponsibility in the Central Federal Legislture and the special and the extraordinary powers of the Governor-General the prposals in the White Paper have been acepted by the Committee. [...] To make the Goernor irresponsible in this respect and to confer on him powers to dismiss the Ministers and ignore the Legislature and the electorates means the negation of ministerial responsibility and the setting up of autocratic rule under the dictatorial powers on the Governor which is the very antithesis of responsible Government. [...] It is said in justficaion of this that “ in the special circustances of India it is appropriate that the principle of executive independence should be re-enforced in the constitution by the conferment of special powers and resposibilities on the Governor as the head of the Provincial Executive.” This means that no responsible government can be conferred yet even in the Provinces of India. [...] They aquire little experience of the real bulk of the civil law and their elevation to the supreme tribunal of the country with equipments of that kind certainly does not add to the strength of the Court. [...] It is therefore most surprising that the Committee should suspect the future legislatures of a tendency to interfere with the supreme status of the High Court and rely on the executive head of the province to uphold that status ! In what manner independence on the Bench is appreciated by the executive was divulged only the other day by Sir Shadi Lal who gave an ouspoken account of the intoleren
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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 short notes of important decisions of other High Courts in India Monday November 26 1934
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