The Calcutta Weekly Notes July 28 1952

It was suggestei that committees appointed by the profession in various districts would be more likely to ascertain the factrthan a Court would be less likely to be deceived by unscrupulous The members of the Bar who in the Judicial Reforms Commited were thus in a committee to the practical realisation of the ideal envisaged in the Report. [...] When a system of legal aid ia the conduct of proceedings was first introduced in England the legal profession Gives given the right to decide whether a case warranted the grant of such aid or It is gratifying to note that the ideaadumbrated in the Report of the Judicial Reforms Committee for the State of West Bengal expreed the opinion that in the granting of free legal aid nts in the conduct of [...] The first move thus has come from the profession and it can be expected that lawyers in the District Courts and in the High Court would extend their co-operation to the surccss of the Legal Aid and Advice Society. [...] The tenant not having given up the demised premses the landlord sued him for specific performance of the contract in the High Court and the tenant having pleaded sec. [...] 28 of the Bombay Rent Act in bar which section conferred exclusive juridiction on the Small Cause Court to try suits for recovery of possession between landlord and tenant Held that the suit being clearly one for specific performance of the contract under the Specific Relief Act and not one for recovery of possession between the landlord and the tenant as contemplated by sec.