Courts and their judgments
Subtitle: premises, prerequisites, consequences
By: Arun Shourie.
Publisher: Rupa & Co.
Published: 2001
Place of publication: New Delhi
Language: eng
Number of pages: 454
Subjects: Courts -- India.; Judicial process -- India.; Political questions and judicial power -- India.
Description: With reference to India.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
"The first Lawasia lecture"--Jacket.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: The setting; title: 1. An annual lecture 3; title: 2. Our protectors 5; title: Bringing about a change; title: 3. When an institution; title: has to take on the work of others 13; title: Spreading out; title: 4. The "State" of India 65; title: 5. A meta-consequence 109; title: 6. From "life" to "life with dignity"; title: to the pay of Imams 143; title: Some consequences; title: 7. "The resultant legal chaos" 201; title: 8. The cascading effect 239; title: Time and place; title: 9. Going along 263; title: 10. Shutting one's eyes 274; title: 11. Some rules of thumb 285; title: 12. Alert enough to get what we need? 297; title: The government as a litigant; title: 13. Some way to discipline staffl 319; title: 14. The fate of remedies 359; title: 15. "Before parting,; title: we place on record our deep anguish" 370; title: The standards we need, the ones by which we are judged; title: 16. Activism, and its prerequisites 399; title: 17. A premise we cannot afford 422; title: 18. We can't save the country on a part-time basis 429; title: Indices; title: 19. Cases cited 439; title: 20. Index 446.