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 September 30 1912

THERE IS CONSIDERABLE' DIFFERENCE OF OPINION yet; both in legal cirJes and amongst the general public as to whether the opinion of the Court of first instance or that of the Court of Appeal is the correct one. [...] But all the same we fully believe that the present deteriortion in the quality of barrister judges is greatly due to the careless selections that are made for Indian judgeships both by the Government of India and the Secretary of State. [...] But if is otorious that the judicial branch of the Civil Service which supplies not less than one third of the Judges to the High Courts labours under great disadvatages from deficient legal education and knowledge of the law of the land in its letter and 1w its interpretation expresed through the Law Reports and that on his first appoinment to a District Judgeship a member of the Civi [...] BY WAY OF CONTRAST TO THE LEGAL ATTAImts of the members of the Civil Service Sir Henry i) ays a very just tribute to the Vakil and the istrict Bar in India. [...] The only means that suggests to us for i improving the legal training of the members of the Indiansivil Sevice is the complete separation of the executive and judicial administration of the country.