The Calcutta Weekly Notes. Monday May 10 1937

The Chairman said that the scale of fees had remained the same since the days of the East India Company. [...] The second matter to which the Chairman referred was the tendency on the part of those who control the executive part of the judicial administration to curtail the individual liberty of lawyers. [...] We understand that exception has been taken to the publication in our last issue of the letter which the Registrar of the Appelate Side had addressed to the District Judge of Murshidabad on the subject of applications for execution. [...] (Contributed.) The Hindu Women's Rights to Property Act 1937 received the assent of the Govenor-General on the 14th April and was published in the Gazette of India on the 17th April last. [...] Even assuming that he belongs to a more conscientious type than we ordinarily find' and wants to make arrangements for the representation of the minor in the High Court does anybody expect that he will pay from his own pocket the expenses incurred for the journey to and from Calcutta and the fees of the AdVocate whom he may want to engage on behalf of the minor?