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 April 2 1917

A Judge welgrounded in the general principles of English law gets the assistance of the local Bar in the interpretation of the personal customary and the.elaborately codified general and local laws of British India. [...] As an instance it may be mentioned that even the Minister of Justice ordered a present of 100 roubles to be paid to a Court official for the registration of a title-deed of his own daughter and the order was executed in quite an official way by the Director of the Department of the Ministry of Justice. [...] The same conditions prevaied in most of the provinces only few had Governors of the calibre of that of Kursk to pr-test against such unparalleled injustice and 4corruption.'t The standard and personnel of the legal prfission in Russia was naturally as deplorable as the other paraphernalia of the Law Courts. [...] The first and fundamental reform which paved the way to the reform of administration of justice in Russia was the abolition of serfdom of the Russian peasants in 1861. [...] The nobles were really the judges and in their hands were concentraed the absolute power.over the mass of the population.'' We shall next review the chequered career of the Reformed Law Courts in Russia which in spite of the reigning Soveeign's genuine desire to blend justicer`with mercy were never permitted to emulate the ideal of the Western and more progressive European nations upon