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The Calcutta Review an Illustrated Monthly (Third Series) May 1945

1945

As the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council has observed " The High Court in the Presidencies 'are Superior Courts of Records and the offence of contempt and the powers of the High Court for punishing it. [...] And the issuing of attachments by the Supreme Courts of Justice in Westminster Hall for contempts out of Court stands upon the same immemorial usage as supports the whole fabric of the Common Law." " The arraignment of the justice of the Judges is arraigning the king's justice; it is am impeachment of his wisdom and goodness in the choice of his judges and excites in the minds of the peopl [...] Therefore a rflection upon the integrity of justice or any imputation upon the motive of those who dispense justice or any unfair criticism of the administration of justice tending to degrade the court in the eyes of the public or holding it up to public odium and reprobation may have the effect of destroying or diminising public 'confidence in the impartiality and incorruptibility of jus [...] Lord Atkin of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council in a recent case has laid down the principle in this form Whether the authority and position of an individual judge or the due administration of justice is considered no wrong is committed by any member of the public who exercises the ordinary right of critcising in good faith in private or public the public act done in the seat of [...] Justice Wadia of the Bombay High Court maintained " The intention of the writer may often be of secondary importance : the question is what is the effect of the articles and have they a tendency to obstruct and bit.arfere with the due and proper course of administration of justice.
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Pages
48
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120137
Segment Pages Author Actions
The Press and the Law of Contempt of Court in India
43-48 Nikhil Ray view
Some Cultural Aspects of Ala-Ud-Din Khilji’s Reign
48-52 Dharam Pal view
Property in Aboriginal India
53-58 Nabendu Majumder view
The Myth of the Brotherhood of Man
58-62 Sukumar Haldar view
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
62-66 Sukumar Haldar view
Historical Setting of a Dismal Episode—the Cyclone of 1833
66-68 Bishnupada Chakravarti view
Science Notes
69-71 Suprokash Ghosh view
Miscellany
71-72 Binoy Sarkar view
Round the World
73-74 S.N.C. view
Reviews and Notices of Books
75-78 S.N.C. view
Ourselves
78-78 unknown view
Official Notifications University of Calcutta
79-84 S.N.C. view

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