[BITList] Fwd: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] P C no more?

[John Feltham]

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From: "Harshawardhan_Bosham Nimkhedkar" <bosham at gmail.com>
Date: 19 October 2009 12:25:41 AM AEST
To: <india-british-raj at rootsweb.com>
Subject: [INDIA-BRITISH-RAJ] P C no more?
Reply-To: india-british-raj at rootsweb.com

Two legal items today - both with direct links to the Raj era.

1

17/10/2009  Queen opens Supreme Court

LONDON: Britain on Friday embarked on what Prime Minister Gordon
Brown described as a new "journey as a nation" as the Queen formally
opened the country's newly-created Supreme Court, marking a historic
shift of judicial authority from the House of Lords which for hundreds
of years had been the highest court of appeal. [snip]
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/10/17/stories/2009101760671200.htm

2

New Delhi, Saturday, October 17, 2009

Belated justice: [India's] Supreme Court resolves 1931 dispute
http://www.tribuneindia.com/2009/20091017/main6.htm

The Supreme Court last week adjudicated a property dispute that
had its origin eight decades ago - in 1931 to be precise.

Of course, the law stands clarified but the dispute has outlived the
main litigants. A glaring example of justice delayed is justice denied?
[snip]
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