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 May 25 1925

One of the reasons why the system of articled clerks " has not been successful in the case of vakeels but has been a complete success in the case of attorneys is that the latter pay some remuneration and render valuable assistance to their masters while the masters of the former get no benefit from the arrangement. [...] Such being the case the Judge of the City Civil Court will not be able to try eases as expeditiously as a High Court Judge 2\loreover it is considered that the enrolment of Vakeels asAdvocates will have the effect of cheapening litigation in the High Court. [...] As the Vice-Chancelter of the University is a Judge of the CalemSta High Court and the faculty of law is composed mainly of practising lawyers there may not be a great difficulty in the way of introducing some change in the University curriculum. [...] Until the iauguration of the Montague-Chelmsford Rforms the constitutional position of India was closely assimilated to that of the Crown Colonies the Government of the country being a thinly disguised despotism on the whole benevolent in character but fitting so ill with the constitutional system of the Government of the British Isles that haidl any practical object could be served by re [...] In this little book not only has the English constitutional law been analysed and exhibited from the point of vieveof an Indian scholar the points of contact eferred to above with the Indian constitution have been definitely indicated with the object it is to be hoped of carrying the study and discussion into the details of the Indian constitutional system in a treatise by itself.