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 July 25 1921

examined in the light of the new eostitntional position created by the inauguration of the reforms the retention of the law is in the minion of many not only unrfecessary but ixiefainpatible with the increasing association of; he representatives of the people in the aminstaxitioof the country. [...] the spirit of the Reforms Scheme and the gradu41 evolution responsible Government: There is in our judgment great force in many of these criticisms we consider that in the altered' circumstances cvated by the Reforms the avantages likely to be secured by the repeal of this measure outweigh the benefits whiclhcould be Otained by its retention on the Statute Book. [...] The case was taken to the House of Lords upon the certficate of the AttorneGeneral that the'decision of the Court' of Criminal Appeal involvas a point of law of exceptional importance. [...] Law Rview are worth quoting : The decision nicely illustrates the incessant struggle between the objective and the subjective points of 'view in the criminal law---between the idea of punisment as retribution based on desert and that of punishment as prevention based on social necessity On the question of construtive murder the deeisiob clearly reasserts the once well-settled law that an [...] The order passed to :- " if the result of the inquiry isthat the MagiStrate thinks that the confinement of the girl by the husband was an offence the Magitrate should let the girl go and warn her band against interfering with htr excePt 'through a Civil Court: Ion the 4tler hand the Magistrate atrivet 'at' the conclusion' that the: charges against the husband are ealumnious and that he co