The Judicial Committee held : "(a) That the letter signed "Colonist" in The Nassau Guardian though it might have been made the subject of proceedings for libel was not, in the circumstances, calculated to obstruct or interfere with the course of justice or the due administration of the law, and therefore did not constitute a contempt of Court." The Attorney General struck a sound note when in the course of the arguments he summed up the law thus "A libel upon a judge, holding him up to contempt and ridicule in his character as a judge, so as to lower him in the estimation of the public amongst whom be exercises office is a contempt of court." (emphasis supplied) Lord Atkin, in the celebrated case of Debi Prasad Sharma vs The King Emperor(2) where the printer, publisher and editor of the: Hindustan Times were found guilty of contempt by the Allahabad High Court for criticising the Chief Justice by falsely imputing to him a circular communication to the subordinate judiciary to raise collections for the war fund, set asida the conviction holding that the proceedings in contempt were misconceived, The learned Law Lord observed "When the comment in question in the present case is examined it is found that there is no criticism of any judicial act of the Chief Justice, or any imptitation on him for any thing done or omitted to be done by him in the administration of justice.