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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 26 1920

1920

The Annual Statement of the General Coucil of the Bar for 1919 contains the opinion of the Professional Conduct Committee at the istance of the Attorney-General of New Zealand regarding the right of a counsel for a prisoner accused of a crime to suggest that some other person is in fact guilty of the crime alleged which will be found useful by the profession and we therefore publish below th [...] If a counsel is instructed by the prisoner that certain circumstances exist which might if elicited entitle the counsel to at least suggest the guilt of another then it appears to me that it would be the duty of the counsel by cross-examination of the witnesses for the Crown to endeavour to elicit those circumstances and the apparent effect of suggestion of the guilt of another would be create [...] The committee are of opinion that the rule which should be observed by an honourable advocate in accordance with the traditions of the Profession is correctly expressed in resolutions 1 and 2 of the New Zealand Law Society of the 5th July 1918 with the additions and explanations contained in the Attorney-General's letter of the 9th July 1918 to that society. [...] It is by the judicial decisions of the Privy Council and the Indian High Courts that some order has been evolved out of the chaotic condition in which the Hindu Law was in the early days of the administration of justice by the British Courts in India. [...] Chiefly at the instance of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council the Courts commenced bringing into requisition the principles of equity and good conscience in solving some of the gordian knots of Hindu Law.
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sarf.100104
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