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 May 6 1912

It is quite well-known that it is for political reasons that the Secretary of State for India moved by the Government of this country induced the Benchers of the Inns of Courts to impose special restrictions with regard to the admittance of Indian students to the Inns of Courts. [...] It should be remembered that almost all the avenues of employment such as the army the higher grades of the Police the Customs the Public Works Department the Forests and in fact all the fat berths in the gift of the Government are practcally closed to the educated youths of this country. [...] IN ARRIVING AT THE DECISION THAT A pOttah executed by the lessor is not essential to the creation of a valid lease the learned Judges of both the Madras and the Calcutta High Courts have laid stress on the fact that secs. [...] The trial of Palmer was as Sir James Stephen observes one of the greatest trials in the history of English Law and eminently deserving of the attention of the studen s of law. [...] The jury found in answer to quetions left to them (t) That the boys were on the school premises when the accident happened ; (2) that the London County Council were by their servants guilty of negligence which was the cause of the accident ; (3) that Chappell by himself or his servants was gLilty of negligence which was the cause of the accident.