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 May 26 1924

He was for some years one of the editors of the College Magazine The Eagle ' and was one of the founders of the Society of Indian students known as the Mujlis. [...] In 1912 after the Partition of Bengal was annulled at the zenith of his reputation as a public man and a leader of the Bar he was offered a judgeship of the High Court at the instance of Sir Lawrence Jenkins the then Chief Justice of the Calcutta High Court. [...] 2. Service of Summons4— One of the causes of the delay in the proper service of summons is that when the peon goes to the house of the Defendant or the witness the latter may be temporarily absent from home it may be for a few hours or a few days. [...] The peon or the identifier need not come to Court to swear his affidavit bill the President of the Union Board or of the Panchayat or the Chairman of a Municipality may be authorised to administer oath for such affidavits ; and the processes and the returns may be sent to and by the peon by registered post. [...] The circular of the Hon'ble High Court against " piece-meal trial appears to be based not Ao much upon any apprehension of hindrance to the fair trial of the case as upon the harrassment to the parties if the hearing of several ready cases go on simultaneously devoting only a part of the day to each ease.