The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday December 11 1933

It is said that the stay order was sent by a special messenger from the Secretariat to the Superintendent of the Jail on the 20th of November. [...] The Local Government ought to make an enquiry whether the stay order could not have been communicated from the Secretariat to the jail authorities more expeditiously on the' 18th 19th or even earlier on the 20th so that the officer responsible could satisfy himself that the exicatiOn would be stayed The conduct of the officers of the jail who neglected to open the cover until the sentence had be [...] They commanded the production of the document and in one case the Judge went the length of reading aloud the docpent in open Court; perhaps to ernphasise the measure of his disapproval of the atttude taken up by the Crown. [...] The Crown's right to withhold documents was examined by the Judicial Committee in the recent case of Robinson v. The State of South Australia (35 C. W. N. 1121) where Lord Blanesburgh expressed surprise that cases illustrating the matter were not more numerous and proceeded to " make some equiry as to the character and the quality of the privilege itself and to the attitude of the Court with [...] xis davit the Court would have power to inquire into the nature of the document and require some indication of the nature of the public injury likely to be caused and even to ispect the document for itself provided luch inspection was done in a manner that would not destroy the privilege if it existed.