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Magisterial Judgments and How to Write Them

The only point of substance often urged in the High Court in Criminal Appeals and in Criminal Revision Cases is that the judgment of the Magistrate is not in conformity with the requirements of the Criminal Procedure Code. This plea has become so familiar and nay fashionable that it is

Codification of Administrative Adjudicatory Procedure

In recent years a tendency of vesting extensive adjudicatory powers affecting private lights and obligations in the administrative agencies, may be seen, To secure fairness in hearing and to guard against abuse of those powers, procedural safeguards providing minimum requirements of fair procedure are necessary. As was observed by an

The Authority Behind Precedent : A Sociological Footnote

The reasons given in support of the doctrine of precedent by Paton are1 "that it is adequate proof of custom, that it shows res-pact fee the opinion of one's ancestors, that convenience demands that a question once decided should not be subject to re-argument In every case