The Judiciary I Served

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Orient Blackswan, 1999 - Biography & Autobiography - 291 pages
The Judiciary I Served is an account of an eminent jurist s long and distinguished career in law from his early days as a barrister to his retirement from the Supreme Court of India. An absorbing aspect of this book is the detail of how repeated challenges, minor and major were thrown down at both state and central level, and how upright judges needed to struggle against such pressures in order to uphold the proper functioning of the law.
 

Contents

PART II
42
PART III
85
Chief Justice Chandra Reddys Transfer
115
After Becoming Chief Justice
133
Problems and Incidents
141
To the Supreme Court
149
Chairman Commissions
162
The Bank Nationalisation Case
171
The Communal Riots Enquiry
183
Challenges to the Constitution
205
The Keshavananda Bharati Case
225
End of Judicial Tenure
255
Appendix Youthosophy Yorkshires
284
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