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The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday March 23 1914

1914

The judicial dicta of all the Superior Courts in Enland since the latter part of the last century up to the present day have been uniformly in favour of excluding what is called scandalizing the Court itself ” or in other words criticisms derogtory to the dignity of the Court or a Judge from the operation of the law of contempt. [...] Lord Shaw sitting in the House of Lords recently observed that the practice of administering justice before the eyes of the public was one of the greatest safeguards to the rights and liberties of the British subject. [...] (2) Such written record of the statement cannot be used (a) To corroborate the statement of a witness for the prosecution or (b) To corroborate the statement of a witness for the defence or (c) To impeach the credit of a witness for the defence. [...] cbt to impeach the credit of such witness in the manner provided by the Evidence Act and Batty J. was of opinion that the writing might have been used for the purpose of refreshing the memory of the witness cross-examined as to the fact of the statement either on behalf of the prsecution or on behalf of the defence provided that it was treated by the prosecution only for the purpose of impeac [...] In this appeal in the course of their Lordships' judgment delivered by Lord Moulton the quetion was discussed as to how far the presumption —ad medium filum aquce—is negatived by specific boundaries in the following terms :---In some of the judgments in the Courts below the learned Judges have held that the presumption that the bed of the river ad medium filum aqua' was icluded in the gran
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday March 23 1914
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