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 July 29 1912

THE ATTACK OF SIR JOHN REES ON THE JUDGES of the Calcutta High Court before the empty benches of the House of Commons displayed such colossal ignorance and bad taste that it would be unworthy of notice but for the ruling it elicited from the Right Hon'ble the S?eaker of the House regarding the procedure which should be followed when it is intended to call in question the conduct of His Majesty's J [...] The writer cites cases to show that Coporations have not unfrequently been constituted to evade the personal obligations of its ultimate shareholders that the same set of persons have successively constituted themselves into a number of Corporations for the purpose of taking over by one of the properties of its predecessor free from the claims of the creditors of the latter. [...] But the author has been able to reduce its size considerably owing to the Judicial Committee having standardized the rules of appeal from most of the Colonies and in consequence of the fact that the federation of the South African Colonies has imposed restritions both as regards appeals from the Courts of the different States as also f4prn the Supreme Court of the Union. [...] The author has embodied in this work the substance of the provisions of the Appellate Jurisdiction Bill which was introduced in Parliment last year and which promises to found one Imperial Court of Appeal for the Empire by the unification of the Judicial Committees of the House of Lords and the Privy Council. [...] The proposal is that the Court will sit in two divisions to exercise the jurisdiction of the Privy Council a'nd the House of Lords respectively that the Court will be strengthened by the addition of two new Lords of Appeal selected from amongst the most eminent of English Judges and that six Law Lords would sit in their full strength succesively in the two divisions but in the same building.