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 December 14 1925

To students of the working and development of the British Constitution and of the Constittion of the Community of Nations forming the British Commonwealth of Nations—in other words the Constitution of the British Empire— art. [...] Colonies of the Crown and India are absolutely bound in matters of peace and war and in their ielations with foreign poWers by the prerogative of the King acting on the advice of a Cabinet responsible only to the House of Commons and through the house of Commons to the people of Great Britain. [...] more strictly of the House of Commons." Again : " The principle of the law is that a Colony is bound by treaties made by the Imperial Parliament and does not unless under some special provision of an Act of Parliament possess authority to make treaties with any foreign power." This apparent severance of the Dominions from Great Britain and their freedom from the obliglations of the Locarno [...] Now the net result of invoking the aid of the sections referred to above is that the Magistrate should for the purpose of a particlar case give the go-by to all the wholesome provisions of law which have been enacted always bearing in mind the fundamental idea that the accused is to be presumed to be inocent until his guilt is proved beyond all reasonable doubt. [...] The lower Court had ruled that such a proscution can lie and in the absence of an authritative decision of the High Court to the cotrary the propriety of the proposed amenment of the Calcutta Municipal Act remains extremely doubtful.