Courts and their judgments : premises, prerequisites, consequences /

With reference to India.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Arun Shourie
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Noida : HarperCollins Publishers India, 2018.
Subjects:
Courts > India.
Judicial process > India.
Political questions and judicial power > India.
Online Access:Table of contents
Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: The setting
  • 1. An annual lecture 3
  • 2. Our protectors 5
  • Bringing about a change
  • 3. When an institution
  • has to take on the work of others 13
  • Spreading out
  • 4. The "State" of India 65
  • 5. A meta-consequence 109
  • 6. From "life" to "life with dignity"
  • to the pay of Imams 143
  • Some consequences
  • 7. "The resultant legal chaos" 201
  • 8. The cascading effect 239
  • Time and place
  • 9. Going along 263
  • 10. Shutting one's eyes 274
  • 11. Some rules of thumb 285
  • 12. Alert enough to get what we need? 297
  • The government as a litigant
  • 13. Some way to discipline staffl 319
  • 14. The fate of remedies 359
  • 15. "Before parting,
  • we place on record our deep anguish" 370
  • The standards we need, the ones by which we are judged
  • 16. Activism, and its prerequisites 399
  • 17. A premise we cannot afford 422
  • 18. We can't save the country on a part-time basis 429
  • Indices
  • 19. Cases cited 439
  • 20. Index 446.

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