The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday September 2 1929

With regard to the controversy over the preparation of the paper-books to which we referred in our last issue he has done mote than any one else for the restoration of to old system under which they were edited-by the vakils of the High Conrt. [...] The bluntness of the expressions in which he has sometimes been known to epress himself on the Bench is peculiar to the pair of the country and alsoto the family he hails from. [...] On the eye of the closing of the High Collet of Enland Lord Justice Scrutton sitting in the Court of appeal made some very strong oservations regarding the exorbitant fees that are sometimes charged by counsel and solidurs in ordinary suits brought in the High Crilinet and suggested that if this were not checked the result of it would he that the people of moderate means codld not get ju [...] The defence was that in the locality in which the lands were situate there was a custom that if there was failure of crops owing to int) ildatiOn or some such cause in any year t1'.3 tenants got remission of their rents for that year that there was such failure of crops in one of the years for which the Plaintiffs elaime6 rent and that the tenants were entitled to rmission of rent for that y [...] At the time of the hearing of their appeals an objection was taken by the Respondents that the second appeals to the High Court were incopetent under sec.