The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday March 18 1901

The learned Judge made an enquiry into the matter and was told by the Court officer that it has not been the practice in the High Court of late to enforce the rule in this respect in the case of witnesses who depose in the vernacular. [...] Bonnerjee who was appearing on the other side said that it used to be the practice before to take these witnesses down into the translator’s office and there the depositions were explained and in the presence of the interpreter the witnesses used to put their signatures. [...] The occasion for it was a request by the Bombay Government to the Justices of the Supreme Court for the stay of certain writs of habeas corpus directed to the officers of some provincial and native courts situate outside the Island of Bombay. [...] The Supreme Court being assembled for the despatch of its judicial business Sir C. H. Chambers caused this getter to be read to the court by the clerk of the Crown ; after which Sir James Grant concurring with Sir C. H. Chambers in opinion regarding both the form and the substance of the communication the court directed that the clerk of the Crown should inform the chief secretary to the Govern [...] It was his impartial administration of justice and his just notion of the dignity of his Court that made the High Court go up in the estimation of the people and command that the confidence it does to this day We do not desire that there should ever be any conflict between the N igh Court and the Executive Govern.