Unit 2 of History of Courts, Legislature and Legal Profession (syllabus: Module II — the conflicts arising out of the dual judicial system; the Indian High Courts Act 1861 and the fusion of the Supreme Courts with the Sadar Adalats; the High Courts after 1861; the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, the routes and thresholds of appeal from the Mayor’s Courts, the Supreme Courts, the Recorder’s Courts, the Sadar Diwani Adalats, the High Courts and the Federal Court; the abolition of Privy Council appeals in 1949; and the Federal Court under the Government of India Act 1935). Below: what the unit covers, the provisions it turns on, and the cases an examiner expects you to name.