The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday January 29 1934

The first part of it deals with the “ Re-arrangements in the constitution of the Supreme Court and of the Divisions composed in the High Court of Justice.” The three Division Courts of Chancery Probate Divorce and Admiralty the King’s Bench and the Court of Appeals constitute the Supreme Court in England. [...] The recommendations made for the ablition of some of the separate Divsions and for the re-distribution of the work amongst some other Divisions of the High Court are chiefly as follows: The Probate Divorce and Admiralty Division is to be abolished and the work of the Probate Division which is more akin to that of the Chancery Division is to be amalgamated with it. [...] The advantage of the abolition of these Courts would be that as the Registrars and the staff of these Courts retire the business of the Chancery Division and the King’s Bench Division as re-constituted would be managed more economically by the Re.gistrars and ministerial staff of the High Court of Justice. [...] In the majority of cases the Court accepts or has to depend largely upon the report of the Commissioner which is in the nature of a judgment. [...] Even admitting for the sake of argument that knowledge of Mathematical instruments means the knowledge of Theodolite the writer forgets that that subject is included not in the practical work of the course but in the class work only which can hardly give a working knowledge of the instrument.