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The Calcutta Weekly Notes November 26 1951

1951

While acknowledging the importance of the gathering of the legal practitioners of a State the Attorney-General laid stress on the tecessity of a federation of various bodies of lawyers of different states. [...] The learned Attorney-Genral suggested that there should he close association between the teacher at the University and the practitioner at the Bar which would tend to the raising of the level of legal knowledge both at the seat of learning and at the Bar. [...]....although he was not charged with it"! In substance all that the accused are told before their trial starts is the bare ouline of the charges actually made by the Government and the names of the proscution witnesses ; and even this says the Act is not to "preclude the Central Goverment or the prosecution from submitting additional names of witnesses at any susequent stage of the [...] It puts in place of the regular Court a special trbunal of 3 persons selected for the pupose by the very Government which decied to launch the prosecution which is entrusted by the Act with the framing of the charges. [...] As it is already provided in the Act that there shall be no verbatim transcript of the evdence but only a summary this means that a newly appointed member coming to his work perhaps in the 4th month of the trial is to be regarded as capable of foring a view of the guilt or innocence of each of the accused not merely without seeing the witnesses but withoureading a report of their words—
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4
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India
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sarf.100104
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The Calcutta Weekly Notes November 26 1951
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