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 January 8 1917

Towards the close of his career he started a movement in the Madras Presidency for the re-classification of the various branches of the legal profession in India on the broad lines of the division of work beween solicitors and advocates. [...] The question of the fusion of the two branches of the legal profession was being diseussed in England by some prominent members of the Council of the Law Society in England at the close of the last year and the general trend df the discussion is opposed to amalgamation. [...] Melworth Walters the Senior Member of the Council of the Law Society expressing his views on the question in the symposium published in the columns of the English Law Journal which is intended as a substitute for the " Lawyers Congress " which has been suspended during the war records the folloing opinion :- " Similar divisions of labour though not so strictly defined as in our profession ex [...] held that the omission to get the sanction of the Civil Court was fatal to the criminal proceeings and the Magistrate had no jurisdiction to entertain the complaint. [...] The relations of the prisoner engaged the Petitioner to conduct the defence and the Petitioner's case was that the agreement entered into between the parties was that the Petitioner should visit.