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 August 3 1925

At the Imperial Qonference that was held after the termination of the Great War this iperial relationship was sought to be defined but the Dominion Premiers and delegates rjected the proposal to embody in a written istrument the constitution and the relation to each other of “ the Comnunity of nations foring the British Commonwealth of Nations.” Any written constitution defining such [...] One of the proposals of the Coimnittee is thatthe Courts should be empowered by statute to disallow contracts of a champertous nature and to give relief to the financier by giving him a refund of the money advanced with reasonable profit instead of allowing hint a share of the estate to allow costs to the successful ilefendant on a special scale and to require the plaintiff when he is a man wit [...] The laxity which prevails in Cowarts in the grant of temperary injunctions orders for stay of execution proceedings and.proceeciings in suits and of attachment before judgment is considered by the Committee a fruitful source of delay and of injustice and an open invittion to blackmail.".E.:c prate grant of 13%6 prayers is condemned in severe terms and The krevalence of the lax practice is [...] The Comittee suggest that measures should be devied to ensure that the costs allowed represent approximately the costs reasonably incurred and for that purpose they propose a varyina; scale of pleaders' fees according to the nature of the contest and a system of taxation of costs analogous to what obtains in the Calcutta High Court. [...] The Committee evidently displayed conspicuous ability in apprciating the several defects of the prsent system in drawing liroad and general conclusions from the large mass of statistics supplied to them in takirni a comprehensive view of the different phases of the innumeable questions placed before them and in genrally arriving at the proper solution.