The Calcutta Weekly Notes Law Notes of Notes of Cases of the Calcutta High Court and of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council and Short Notes of Important Decisions of Other High Courts in India Monday March 11 1940

We are aware that provision has addressed by the Secretary to the Goverbeen made in the Constitution Act for extement of India in the Home Department to sion of the jurisdiction of the Federal Court the various High Courts Provincial Goand consequential abolition or curtailment of ernments and Bar Associations inviting the right of appeal to the Privy Council. [...] In the latter document the effect of We consider that the right of appeal fo the provision is thus described: The Court the Privy Council should be maintained in would in effect take the place of the Privy its entirety and the Privy Council should not Council though an appeal would still lie to even partially be replaced by the Federal the latter by leave of the Supreme Court or Court for the f [...] But in able to say : " In accordance with British practice the Judges are bound to be appoinjurisprudence no member of the executive ed in the main on the recommendation of the can interfere with the liberty or property local executive and the executive concerned of a British subject except on the condition will be the central executive which is still that he can support the legality of his [...] But in the face of the executive." It is good and even in respect of the quota drawn from the healthy to hear such observations from Bar the risk will always remain of the time to time. [...] XLIV: will lie to the Federal Court and at the same sive chapter to the legal procedure of time the Privy Council will have the power the country.