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 June 11 1923

The chief point of interest in the Indemnity Bill which as previously amend:11 has passed the third reading in both the of Par is the ekabl Wilma/it of a trilninn I to conader applications for compensation by the persons who had been illegaltv deported to Ireland by the HomeAecretary. [...] But in view of the established doctrine of.irresposibility of the Crown the claim of the injured subject for compensation had so long been viewed as being of a moral rather than of a legal nature ; and the practice had been to leave the 'natter of awarding cornpeLiSation to the ilured individual to the discretion of the excutive. [...] And at the present moment when if the truth is not to be hidden the majority of our judges from the highest Court to the lowest are not exactly giving satisfaction by the quality of their justice and the method of its administration it may not be unprofitable c_n uninteresting to glance through these ancient texts. [...] persons with knowledge of the.ways of men and the world versed in the Vedas and. learned in the law (rillOriTETMITE► (N (Brihaspati. The slight old world garb of the texts need not hide in any way that t‘to stotainments are there demanded of a Judge tiz. [...] For in the polity of the Dharmasastras wealth was not the determinant of the social hierarchy and the freedom of law-making and of adminitration of justice from executive control was one of the avowed doctrines of the authors of the Dharmasastras as opposed to the doctrine of monarchical absolutism taught by the writers of the Artliasaetra School.