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The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday January 6 1919

1919

Provincial Judicial Service and its reform: We have said in our last issue that neither the Report of the Public Service Commission nor the Resolution of the Government of Bengal thereon go to the root of the question of judicial reform and administration of justice in the mofussil. [...] Without prejudice to our views on judicial reform in this country we shall provsionally offer a few suggestions with regard to the recommendations of the Government of Bengal in connection with the suggestions of the Public Service Commission relating to the iprovement of the pay and prospects of the Prvincial Judicial Service. [...] But we are not satisfied either that a couple of years' casual attendance at the Bar is likely to furnish the necessary training and we have therefore to suggest some modifications in the present method of recruitment of mebers of the legal profession and the selection of members of the judicial service therefrom. [...] A solicitor therefore.gets a thoroughly good grounding in the practice of the law whereas the preliminary legal equiment of a vakil of the High Court who is expeced only to do the legal work at the appellate stage of a suit is almost nil in legal drafting and the framing and conducting of original suits. [...] We think that the time has come when for the credit and honour of the legal profession as also in the iterest of the general public the conditions for :admission to the legal profession should be made much more stringent not arbitrarily but by the adoption of means for securing a more thorough preliminary training in the practice of the law.
law
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4
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday January 6 1919
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