Unit 1 of History of Courts, Legislature and Legal Profession (syllabus: Module I — the Royal Charter of 1600 and the King’s Commission of 1601; the Mayor’s Courts and the Charter of 1726; the changes made by the Charter of 1753; Warren Hastings’s judicial plans of 1772 and 1774 and the separation of 1780; the Regulating Act 1773, the Supreme Court at Calcutta under the Charter of 1774 and its working; Kamaluddin’s Case, the Patna Case, Cossijurah’s Case, the trial of Raja Nandakumar and Saroop Chand’s Case; the Act of Settlement 1781; Impey’s reforms and the judicial reforms of Lord Cornwallis). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.