Judicial Process Precedent in Indian Law

3. Auflage 2009
ISBN: 978-81-7012-180-0
Verlag: EBC

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten

The book is a study of the judicial process in India, and addresses serious students of judicial process and such of the Indian lawyers who wish to acquire knowledge of the working of one of the legal material sources of law in the common law world viz., case-law or 'precedent'. It serves to stimulate an awareness of the issues involved, and problems and ways of analyzing and approaching them in the broad field of law, courts, and judges. It goes on to study the role of 'precedent' in the Indian Legal system, and how its various components-rules, people and institutions mutually interact.

The author makes allowance for the fact that the readers' knowledge of the subject may vary considerably, and hence treats the subject accordingly. While dealing with the institutional aspects and sociological perspective of stare decisis in the Indian context, the book discusses the complexities of ratio decidendi and styles of judicial law making and law declaring functions of the Supreme Court with extensive discussion of prospective overruling.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lakshminath, A.

Fachgebiete

• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Common Law (UK, USA, Australien u.a.)
• Rechtswissenschaften Ausländisches Recht Asien (inkl. Türkei und Naher Osten)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Precedent-A Prognosis
Introduction 1
Contemporary Perspectives 8
Stare Decisis in the Indian Courts-Industrial Aspects 12
Stare Decisis-A Sociological Perspective 52
Ratio Decidendi and the Structure of Judgments 69
Supreme Court and Overruling of Precedent 114
Judicial Law Making and Prospective Overruling 180
Law declared by the Supreme Court under Article 141 214
Epilogue - Future of the Past 272
BIBLIOGRAPHY 310
SUBJECT INDEX 316