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 June 28 1926

On the 6th again the Magistrate wrote to the Speaker of the House of Commons informing him of the orders made against the member. [...] On the 7th of May last the Speaker according to Parlimentary practice read the letters of the Magistrate before the House of Commons for the informtition of the Home. [...] The freedom from arrest is among the privileges of the House of Commons which are claimed et the commencement of every Parliament by the Sneaker addressing the Lord Chancellor after the formal notification of his own election to the speakership and of its approval by the Crown. [...] Whether the application of the new setion is confined as that of the old one was to he written record of the statements made to the police during the course of investigation or whether the prohibition contained in the new section applies to oral statements as well. [...] 16 as it existed prior to its amendment it 192*$ pressly prohibited the use of the ecord cotaining the statement of a witness to the police as evidence against the accused ;'and while the High Court's' were at variance as to the admisibility of the oral evidence of such statement in order to corroborate the prosecution witness they were unanimous that the writing could not be admitted i