The Calcutta Weekly Notes December 18 1944

We hasten to inform our readers that the Federal Court has just decided in the appeal from the Special Bench of the Calcutta High Court in the case of Bank of Comerce Ltd. [...] In the course of the debate hoever the Chief Minister was reported to have observed in defence of the proposed amenment that since 1887 the House of Commons had found it necessary to adopt the guillotine method in addition to closure motions in order to regulate its business. [...] The Standing Orders "empower the Speaker if he he of opinion that such dilatory motions are an abuse of the rules of the House to put forth the question thereon from the chair or to decline to put the question thereon to the House." The words italicised indicate that the power relates to the dilatory motion itself and not to the principal question before the House. [...] There is no question whatever of vesting the control of the House to any outside authority much less to the head of the exective Government. [...] 152 of the Companies Act 1913 means "must." After the enactment of the Companies Act t913 and before the Arbitration Act 1940 came into force a Company could only enter into an arbitration under the provisions of the Arbitration Act of 1899 and consequently copanies were outside the scope of Schedule II of the Civil Procedure Code.