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 September 13 1926

ment to them of independent national representation in the Assembly of the League of Nations each of the British Dominions is in international law an indepen-lent Soveeign State connected with Great Britain only by the fact that the Monarch of the United Kingdom is also the King of (Canada Australia Nevl Zealand Newfoundland Rhodesia and the Union of South Africa. [...] In its first ten years it published twenty-ei?;ht articles on various technical subjects in the field of procedural law attackirig and exp'aining with astonishing boldness and skill the anmalies in the jurisdiction of Courts the absurdities in the rules of evidence the atrocious technicalities of pleading the improper use of juries specific preventab'e causes of delay the scandal of jud [...] These reports were not senstional but gave a simple and readable account of what was actually going on in the various Courts of the kingdom familiarizing the reader with the personality and professonal activity of the judges and lawyers with the nature of the procedure the delays the costs the technicalities and the neaccomplishments of the system. [...] Year after year it kept public attention fixed upon the vital function of the Courts in a free country and in the name of the people warned the profession and the government that resistance might postpone but could not defeat the demand of the people for an adequate system of justice. [...] in the absence of the prosecutor is it proper and legal for the Court to conduct the prosecution both by examining-ichief the prosecution witnesses and cross-exmining the defence witnesses ? tinder section 165 of the Evidence Act the Court can ask any question of any witness at any time in order to ascertain the truth but does it extend so far as to allow the Court to conduct the examinat