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 February 5 1917

The acceptance of the office of Lord Chacellor by Lord Finlay will go surely to further strengthen the personnel of the Judicial Comittee of the Privy Council and the House of Lords. [...] The result is that the leader in one Court cannot gct the assistance of his junior and the junior the services of his leader in arguing the appeals before their.Lordships. [...] We are sure that the present Lord Chancellor will fully appreciate the difficulties of the Bar and the grievances of the parties over this matter and will see his way to strengthen the personnel of the Board by his presence and revert to the former practice. [...] and the Secretary of State for the Colonies is thus explained :— The formal control of the Executive Goverment of India which is given to the Secretary of State by sec. [...] General in Council-and where there is no officer coresponding to the Governors while it -differs from Anstralia in which the GaVernarstif the States are ap-. pointed by the Crown 'by 'reason of the fact that the Governors' of the ' 'Indian 'provinces are unlike their 46"VOL.- XXL) THE CALCUTTA WEEKLY NOTES xlvii Australian conffpres under the control of the GovernoGeneral though like