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 January 31 1927

The Govern ment of India by a notification in an extraordi nary issue of the Ciovernrlient India Gazette dated the 19th of September 1921 acceptec the recommendations of the committee an undertook to give legislative effect to them In the legislative session of 1922 the repressive laws with the exceptions mentioned but in. [...] The canons of good faith on the part of the Government of India which H. E. the Viceroy is so keen on vindicating require that the recommendations of the Repressive Laws Committee should be given effect to and the executive in this country instead of being retrogressively irresponsible should be prgressively responsible as is contemplated by the Government of India Act and as has beeassur [...]. Further thscheme of the Government of India Act _contemplates: thaf the Secretary of State should gradually be: relieved of his power of control and supervision over the Government of India In accordance with the Declaration of August 1917 when the Governor-General becomes responsible to the Indian Legislature as he is in the Dominionsq the control and supervision now exercise-b35 th [...] As to the reading over of the depositions while 'Other stages of the case were proceeding their Lordships have held that strictly speaing there was no violation of the law of procdure but for the guidance of the Courts in India their Lordships have laid down the course which should be followed and it is that except in the case of formal depositions the deposition of a witness should be rea [...] 360 on the argument that in the case in question the conviction was not set aside by the Judicial Committee on the ground of such an irregularity.' The section says that the reading over of the.