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Judicial reflections of justice Bhagawati
Choudhury Ram Kishore
Judicial reflections of justice Bhagawati - Kolkata Eastern Law House 2008 - 406p xlv
Justice Bhagwati is one of India's, and indeed one of the world's, most outstanding jurists, a great thinker, philosopher and visionary. His judgments delivered first as a Judge of the Gujarat High Court and then as a Judge and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India have laid great stress and emphasis on the social upliftment of the poor and the downtrodden.
In many of his judgments Justice Bhagwati said that law has to respond to the unsatisfied urges and demands of the people and bring about a socio-economic revolution. If justice is to be done, he said often, then law must not become stagnant or archaic while society moves forward. It must be accessible, intelligible and must change with the time, responding to the realities of modern life. By his skill, he was able to develop the law and adopt it to the needs of his own time.
The book covers a wide range of subjects of constitutional, legal and social importance dealt with in the judgments delivered by Justice Bhagwati during his long career as a judge analysing and examining them critically with reference to the judgments of courts of various other countries, particularly those of England and USA and exploring their true meaning and significance.
The book also presents a comparative study of human rights jurisprudence of different countries against the background of Indian decisions with particular reference to Justice Bhagwati's decisions covering a wide area of jurisprudential thinking
Contents:
Forward vii;
Introduction ix;
Gratitude of authors xv;
Preface xvii;
Acknowledgement xxi;
Table of cases xxxv;
Table of statutes xliii;
Bibliography xiv;
Chapter:
1. A judge is born 1;
2. Law as an instrument of social Justice 32;
3. Child welfare and intercountry adoption 44;
4. India as a Nation - Evolution of concept 73;
5. Constitution - A living organism 79;
6. State action and the constitutional implications 128;
7. Freedom of speech and press 139;
8. Declaration of emergency - constitutional implications 164;
9. Public interest litigation - A stratagic instrument of legal aid 173;
10. Public review 210;
11. Judicial activism 245;
12. Bonded labour - An Affront to basic human rights 279;
13. Human rights in modern Times 287;
14. Human rights and criminal justice system 279;
15. Death penalty - An affront to human rights 321;
16. The judgement that created fissure 393;
Index 399.
978-8171772117
1. Biographies - Judges 2. Justice Bhagawati
340.092000 / CHO-2
Judicial reflections of justice Bhagawati - Kolkata Eastern Law House 2008 - 406p xlv
Justice Bhagwati is one of India's, and indeed one of the world's, most outstanding jurists, a great thinker, philosopher and visionary. His judgments delivered first as a Judge of the Gujarat High Court and then as a Judge and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India have laid great stress and emphasis on the social upliftment of the poor and the downtrodden.
In many of his judgments Justice Bhagwati said that law has to respond to the unsatisfied urges and demands of the people and bring about a socio-economic revolution. If justice is to be done, he said often, then law must not become stagnant or archaic while society moves forward. It must be accessible, intelligible and must change with the time, responding to the realities of modern life. By his skill, he was able to develop the law and adopt it to the needs of his own time.
The book covers a wide range of subjects of constitutional, legal and social importance dealt with in the judgments delivered by Justice Bhagwati during his long career as a judge analysing and examining them critically with reference to the judgments of courts of various other countries, particularly those of England and USA and exploring their true meaning and significance.
The book also presents a comparative study of human rights jurisprudence of different countries against the background of Indian decisions with particular reference to Justice Bhagwati's decisions covering a wide area of jurisprudential thinking
Contents:
Forward vii;
Introduction ix;
Gratitude of authors xv;
Preface xvii;
Acknowledgement xxi;
Table of cases xxxv;
Table of statutes xliii;
Bibliography xiv;
Chapter:
1. A judge is born 1;
2. Law as an instrument of social Justice 32;
3. Child welfare and intercountry adoption 44;
4. India as a Nation - Evolution of concept 73;
5. Constitution - A living organism 79;
6. State action and the constitutional implications 128;
7. Freedom of speech and press 139;
8. Declaration of emergency - constitutional implications 164;
9. Public interest litigation - A stratagic instrument of legal aid 173;
10. Public review 210;
11. Judicial activism 245;
12. Bonded labour - An Affront to basic human rights 279;
13. Human rights in modern Times 287;
14. Human rights and criminal justice system 279;
15. Death penalty - An affront to human rights 321;
16. The judgement that created fissure 393;
Index 399.
978-8171772117
1. Biographies - Judges 2. Justice Bhagawati
340.092000 / CHO-2