Lord Cornwallis and Warren Hastings gave a proper shape to the judicial system in India. Enumerate.
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Warren Hastings FRS (6 December 1732 – 22 August 1818), an English statesman, was the first Governor of the Presidency of Fort William (Bengal), the head of the Supreme Council of Bengal, and thereby the first de facto Governor-General of India from 1774 to 1785. In 1787, he was accused of corruption and impeached in 1787, but after a long trial acquitted in 1795. He was made a Privy Councillor in 1814.
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Lord Cornwallis and Warren Hastings gave a proper shape to the judicial system in India
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- Prior to arrival of the British, customary and religious laws existed in India. In the beginning the British applied these only to Europeans. However Lord Cornwallis & Warren Hastings had given a proper shape to the system of judiciary in India
- Civil & criminal courts were established at the district level. A "Law Commission" was established under Macaulay of Indian Law Codification.
- As such the Indian Penal Code (1860), Criminal Procedure Code (1861), & Civil Procedure Code (1859) were prepared
- The rule of the law which stated that everyone is equal before the law was advocated
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