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The Criminal Law Journal of India November 1927

1927

In all these instances the practice of the Judicial Committee has become in material respects' modified as the relation of the particular part of the Empire to the Mother Country has been varied by the development of the self-government of the former. [...] The majority of these are members of the House of Lords where their duty is to be cognisant of chapges in the political relations of the countries which constitute the Empire. [...] The outcome is litigation in the local Courts giving rise to appeals to the Sovereign in Council Some of the questions thus raised for example in West Africa are of exceptional difficulty because of the novelty of the custom.3 embodied in the native laws which are highly divergent from the Common Law traditions of this country. [...] All appeals would then lie to the King-Emperor in his Privy Council as according to the principles of the Constitu tion they would lie naturally but for the uurpations in the day s long over made by the Legislature in the provinces of the Exective and the Judiciary. [...] How long the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council will continue to exist as the link of Empire which it is to-day and how soon the distant parts of the world which are under the constitutional rule of the British Crown will continue to regard the Committee as a Supreme tribunal of ultmate appeal it is not possible to predict.
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8
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India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120178
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The Criminal Law Journal of India November 1927
83-90 A. N. Aiyar, Z. K. Chaudhuri view

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