The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles and other Matters July 1st 1932

LV L for the detention and correction of criminals to procee 1 on right lines and it ought to he in the ban is of every person who has any part to play in the makinig or the administering of penal laws The Law of Evidence in India by A. K. GhOse Bar-at-law and Advocate High Court Calcutta ; published. [...] The Act gives a number of cut and dried rules for guiding and controlling the admission and rejection of evidence in law Courts and each of these rules is based on very sound logic and is the result of judicial experience of ages. [...] The reasoning of the law can no doubt he gathered from the _yoliMinous text books on the subject or the myriads of reported cases but to the students of law who arc not sufficiently advanced in their studies voluminous treatises or judicial pronouncements on special cases do not prove very much helpful and as a matter of fact they often turn away from the stupendous works with a feeling of de [...] He has explained the basic principles of the essential provisions of the Act in such a lucid manner that the law fixes itself on the mind of the reader without any effort on his part. [...] The chart given in a folded sheet towards the beginning of the book has been very carefully prepared and will show at a glance the basic structure the actual skeleton of the whole law.