The Calcutta Weekly Notes January 9 1950

The article also provides however "that if any bill pending at the commencement of the constitution before the legislature of a State has after it has been passed by nth legislature been reserved for the Cosideration of the President and has receiv. [...] have been received with one universal hiss of indignation from cue end of India to the other ; but there was no criticism of the speech of the Prime Minister in the COD. [...] 1-.)as is driven—and on the facts he has so ably marshalled every impartial citizen will be driven to—to the melacholy conclusion that at a time when "emergency" haunts only the mind of the petti-fogging bureaucrat "the exitence and exercise of the right to detain a person in jail for an indefinite period without bringing him up for trial the existence and the exercise of the right to supp [...] This measure tries to ensure that the full resources of justice are not denied to anone by lack of means just as the National Health Service Act seeks to bring the full benefits of medicine within the reach of all. [...] Sir Hartley Shawcross Attorney-Genral was the sponsor of the Act and for the Opposition Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe former holder of the same office gave his cordial approval as did all lawyers in the House.