The Calcutta Weekly Notes Monday January 12 1942

Within the building itself the office rooms on the ground floor and the colonnade are undoubtedly the safest places but the safest place is not safe against bombs if there be in it wide spans of ucovered glass. [...] Those were (1) that the Courts should be moved down to the ground floor and the offices moved up to the first; (2) that all the glass should be removed; and (3) the Daily Cause List should be shortened so that more people might not have to come to the Court than required for the business atually done. [...] On the one hand if the first floor be more dagerous than the ground floor then it canot be right to remove Judges members of the Bar and litigants to a place of compartive safety and expose officers of the Court to greater danger ; on the other hand it would be easier for the officers who are a much smaller number to move down than it would be for the members of the Bar and the litiga [...] Instructions as to what the members of the Bar should do in the event of there being an air-raid during the time of the sitting of the High Court were given by Sir Harold Derbyshire Kr. [...] Whatever the nature of the liability in suit however patent its exclusion from the B. A. D. Act the Civil Court cannot act on its own view but must await the pleasure of the Board.