We are all familiar with the image of the immensely clever judge who discerns the best rule of common law for the case at hand. According to U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, a judge like this can maneuver through earlier cases to achieve the desired aim—“distinguishing one prior case on his left, straight-arming another one on his right, high-stepping…
Part 1: Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 Part 2: Criminal Contempt under Indian Penal Code, 1860 Part 3: Criminal Contempt under Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 Part 4: Contempt under Civil Procedure Code, 1908 Part 5 : Contempt under The Constitution of India
This work contains all the beginner needs to know about the methodology of studying law. Ranging widely across legal skills, source materials, and methods of study and assessment, it introduces legal problems and describes how to tackle them, and how to look up points of law.
BOOK REVIEWS What Is Justice? By Hans Kelsen. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1957. Hans Kelsen's farewell address as an active member of the University of California Faculty is a fitting introductory chapter to the collection of fifteen essays which comprise his latest book. In keeping with his persistent legal positivism he answers the question "What Is Justice?" by advising…