The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Notes of Cases of the Calcuta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday January 20 1913

9. THE LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL OF THE PRESIDENCY of the sort William in Bengal which has come into existence as a result of the recent elections falls far short of the high order of efficiency that it had obtained under the more rational Regulations under the Indian Councils Act of 1892. [...] Then again they may only\ be sent to the country’s Legislatures by the sufferance of bodies of which a large number in the case of Municipalities and the majority in the case of the District and Local Boards are Government nominees. [...] The profesional classes and in fact the whole of the educated community ought to see that the fruitful source of discord and corruption that the present system of election promises to be does not eat into the vitals of our society. [...] 29 and 30 of the Act hardly leave any room for doubt that the framers of the Act did contemplate a scale of fees existing apart hotn the agreement of the parties and the recovery by a pleader of fees on that scale from his client in the event of the written agreement being found unreasonable or unconscionable. [...] The difference in their position to which we have alluded above is due to the fact that whereas in the case of solicitors in It ngland and attorneys practising on the Original Side of the High Courts here a scale of fees payable by the client to his solicitor in respect of different kinds of work has been laid down and an effective machinery provided in the interest as well of solicitors as of c