Precedent in the Indian legal system

This book is intended for serious law students and such lawyers, 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. It is a general introduction to one of the legal material sources of law in the common law world viz 'precedent'. Book of this kind might not be a novelty. The goal of this book is very modest. 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 the general theme of the book.