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 July 22 1935

Hs a member of the “House” which the appeal to the Lords concurred in the acquittal of the prisoner and followed it up by a popular article in a lay paper on the principles formulated in the judgment. [...] The Judicial Committee had recently to decide two apeals of the highest constitutional importance in which the question was the right of the Dominions to abolish appeals to the King in Council. [...] The Munsif does not say that he found the pleader concerned holding a conversation with the clerk " in regard to any suit or case." He only noticed the fact of a conversation its subject being unknown and that itself seemed to him to be unseemly conduct within the meaing of the confidential circular. [...] As the aforesaid circular of the learned Munsif has come seriously to affect the prestige of the Bar I beg most humbly to pray for a definite pronouncement by the Hon'ble High Court of the exact rights and privileges to be enjoyed by the pleaders of the present day. [...] In cases where an antecedent agreement is produced to support the transaction in question it is the duty of the Court to satisfy itself that the agreement when made was bond fide in the sense that there was no epressed or secret bargain that the giving of the bill of sale or assignment should be dlayed unitl the trade had reached a state of insolvency and there ought always to be a clear exp