The Calcutta Law Journal Short Notes of Cases Articles & Other Matters - January to June 1950

Justice Q. S. Rajadhyaksha of the Bombay High Court who having had the opportunity of working as a Member of the Industrial Court of Bombay is well conversant with the law relating to labour and can speak with authority on the scope and the effect of working of the relevant statutes. [...] The first volume of the work contains the text of the Bombay Industrial Relations Act r947 with detailed notes under each section and the second volume contains the Payment of Wages Act (IV of 1936) and the Minimum Wages Act (XI of 1948) with annotations on the same line as in the other volume. [...] They have also laid the entire caselaw on the subject under contribution to elucidate the expositions of the statutory provisions of the Act or to indicate the development of the law in those parts of the country where the Act is not directly in force but applies only as matters of equity and justice. [...] In a very valuable Introduction to the book the learned author has given a sufficient history of factory legislation the scope of the Act and a summary of its main provisions with all the minutest details of factory rules ensuring safety health and prosperity of the factory workers themselves and providing measures of protetion for the neighbouring members of the public. [...] Private Company—Transmission of share—Provision in the article of the company regarding transfer of shares—Discretion of the directors to refuse any transfer of share—Application for rectifiction of register of members of the company by the executors of a deceased share holder.