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Jenkins, Sir Lawrence : Lawrence Hugh (1858-1928): called to the bar 1883: Puisne Judge of Calcutta High Court 1896-9: Chief Justice of Bombay High Court 1899-1908: awarded Knight Commander of the Indian Empire 1903: Member, Viceroy’s Council 1908-9: Chief Justice of Calcutta High Court 1909-15, in which capacity, in a Special Bench with Justice Carnduff, he heard the appeal in the Alipore Bomb Case (1909) & gave judgment on 23 November 1909. There was a difference of opinion between the two judges in respect of five of the appellants. [Buckland; B.K. Bose, Alipur Bomb Trial, Calcutta, 1922; Martin Gilbert, Servant of India, London, 1966]

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... its nets with a generous wideness, we ought not to whine if such accidents bring us into the meshes. The State must be preserved at any cost. In any case, the whole country must be grateful to Sir Lawrence Jenkins for the courtesy, patience and fairness with which he has heard the case and given every facility to the defence, an attitude which might with advantage be copied by certain civilian judges ...

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... rapidly reached a still wider range before it ceased to appear in 1908 in consequence of newly passed Newspapers (Incitement to Offence) Act." The Committee also quotes a learned Chief Justice, Sir Lawrence Jenkins: "They exhibit a burning hatred of the British race, they breathe revolution in every line, they point out how revolution is to be effected. No calumny and no artifice is left out which is likely ...