Precedent in the Indian legal system

This book is intended for serious law students and such lawyers in the Indian setting, as may wish to acquire a knowledge of the working of case law or precedent. At the risk of being too elementary for some and too advanced for others, allowance is made for the fact that the extent of the readers knowledge of Indian law may vary considerably. This book stimulates an awareness of issues, problems and ways of analysing and approaching them in the broad field of law, courts and judges. This book is a general in troduction to one of the legal material sources of law in the common law world viz 'precedent'. Books of this kind might not be a novelty. The goal of this book is very mod est. The Indian legal system, as any other legal system, is a very complex organism and it has many parts, many actors and many aspects. The actors range from judges of the Supreme Court to hoboes sleeping in railroad yards and pavements; the institutions include courts, prisons, police departments and countless others. As in all legal systems, the way rules, people and institutions mutually react, gives the organism the life. How they interact is our general theme. There is no end to the literature on the doctrine of precedent or for the security of a case and statute reading list which might be regarded as definitive.