The Calcutta Weekly Notes December 17 1945

The Judge-Advocate explains the It appears from the enquiries made of us rlaw and addresses the Court-Martial just as the :Yarding the Court-Martial conducting the I. N. Sessions Judge charges the jury. [...] The judA. trial that the provisions for setting up and meat of the Court-Martial has got to be either g the constitution of Cdurt-Martial are not veryuilty or not guilty—just as the verdict of the familiar even to the members of the legal profejury. [...] The points of difference are that the ision; not a few have been puzzled by the prterpretation of law by the Judge-Advocate is sence in the Court-Martial of a person called not binding on the members of the Court-Mathe judge-Advocate. [...] We give below a sutial and the members of the Court-Martial and mary of the provisions regarding the constitution not the Judge-Advocate pronounce the sentence of Courts-Martial the jurisdiction of such which is unlike the sentence of a Sessions Court Courts and the procedure followed thersubject to confirmation in all cases by the authin. [...] The members of the Court-Maon active service is charged with the offence of tial are subject to challenge by the accused murder or rape in respect of a person not subject and the members other than the one challenged to military law he is not triable by a Courhave the jurisdiction to decide on the validity Martial lint is to be tried by the ordinary Crimi-.of the objection.