The Calcutta Weekly Notes April 26 1948

We understand from reliable sources that lately the Chief Justice of India has intimated to Judges of the Calcutta High Court the desirability of enforcing the practice often followed by Hon’ble Judges in this and other High Courts of not pemitting near relations to appear as Advcates before them. [...] Since the days of Coke in the seventeenth century the palmy days of struggle between a monarchy seeking to be absolute and the forces of constitutionalism and parlimentary propriety the independence of the judiciary has come to be regarded as cardinal tenet of democratic life. [...] The position of Judges and the conditions of their tenure have thus a very special significance and when a new constitution is adumbrated like the one that is going soon to be in the Indian Union after the labours of the Constituent Assembly hear fruit attention of the legal profession and of all who are interested in the adminitration of justice as one of the State’s most basic exacting [...] We require therefore to offer no apology for a dicussion which we may have to extend over several weeks of the state of the judiciary as contemplated in the draft Costitution prepared at New Delhi The mode of appointment of High Court Judges is laid down in sec. [...] 193 GO of the Draft Constitution where it is prvided that “ every Judge of a High Court shall be appointed by the President a warrant under his hand and seal after cosultation with the Chief Justice of India the Governor of the State We do not understand why ” the Governor of the State “ has come to be included in this section.