The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes and Noted of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and the English Law Courts Monday March 24 1924

The very meagre reports of the proceeings before the Civil Justice Committee which are appearing in the press leave one in doubt as to whether the Committee is being matrially assisted in tracing to their foots the causes and influences which are operating to clog the administration of civil justice in British India. [...] The root causes of the delay and obstruction which retard business in the Civil Courts lie elsewhere than in the personal factor whether in the Judge or in the legal practitioner. [...] by docking a notice here or shortening the procedure there or making that compulsory which in the interest of fair trial should be left to the dicretion of the Court to be exercised with rference to the special facts of each case will so far from bringing any relief aggravate the evils of the existing system. [...] But when the work is in quantity obviously beyond the capacity of the number of workmen employed the se/Stein becomes from the paint of view of the employer pure and simple.slave-driving and must from the point of view of the employee appear` to justify the sacrifice of quality to quantity and when it concerns the exercise of judicial functions place a premium upon hasty and' uneonsciedens [...] XXI r. 100 is not an applcation in execution proceedings but is an orgins.) matter in the nature of a suit inasmuch as it is a proceeding instituted by one who is not bound by the decree for the release of prperty attached in execution of the decree and is in the nature of a summary suit and that therefore Or.