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 7 1928

Lord Chancellor's office and its anomalies' Although the English judiciary are indpendent of the executive still it is a curious anomaly that the Lord Chancellor combines in him the office of a cabinet minister and the head of the judiciary. [...] He is the head of the Court of Chancery a Lord of Appeal and presides over the Judicial Committee of the House of Lords which is the highest Court of Appeal and also at times over the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council. [...] The lesson to be learnt from this is that the test of a really responsible Government consists more in the political traditions and the public spirit of a nation than on the terms of its written constitution. [...] For istance the President of the American Rpublic and the Prime Minister of the French Republic are great autocrats and are not responsible to the country's legislature to the same extent as the Prime Minister of England. [...] 107 the particulars on whkh the Magistrate proceeded under the section in question have been brought to the knowledge of the accused in the notice issued by the Magistrate under sec.