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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 May 30 1927

1927

The result is that the Bench and the there have the same outlook in the matter itf. [...] The greatest characteristic of the English judicial system as compared with the judicial systems of the other aations of Europe is our principle that the judges must be taken from the ranks of the Bar and not from the ranks of men who from the first have been bred up to the judicial profession alone. [...] And if happiness of the masses be the ultimate criterion by which the Sticcess of a State is to be judged is not the prosperity of the English and the American workers a decisive -proof of the superiority of the old form of State to the new which has monopolised the entire means prodution in I.u.ssia and yet conferred on the producers no improvement of their lot? [...] On the amissibility or otherwise of this evidence lengthy arguments were addressed to the lower Court which decided for admitting it and to a lawyer by far the most interesting pUrtion.of the book is that dealing with the proceedings before the Court of Criminal Appeal a' the conclusion of which their Lordships (the Lord Chief Justice and _ivory and Shearman Ji.) upheld the decision of the [...] Yet another point of interest in the book is the glimpse it affords into the methods of a jury of laymen charged with deciding the fate of a fellow-being.
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India
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sarf.100104
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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 May 30 1927
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