Contents
Preface
Table of Cases
cited List of Abbreviations
CHAPI'ER XXI. DELEGATED LEGISLATION
XXII. LEGISLATIVE POWER OF THE UNION AND THE STATES ...Legislative Lists 2304; A Note on Goodricke Group Ltd. v. W.B. - Cess on Tea Estates 2577
XXIII. OFFICIAL LANGUAGE.
XXIV. TRADE. COMMERCE AND INTERCOURSE WITHIN THE TERRITORY OF INDIA.
XXV. THE UNION JUDICIARY.
Part I 2613; Part II 2616; The Doctrine of the Political Question 2636;
Part III. Judicial Independence 2697;
Section I The First Round: Sankalchand's Case 2698;
Section II 2705; The Second Round: The Judges' Case 2706;
Section III 2710; An Aggrieved Additional Judge and the Supreme Court 2711;
Section IV Permanent and Additional Judges 2715;
Section V Justice Vohra, Chief Justice Prakash Narain and the Supreme Court: "Back to the Stuarts" 2720; Section
Section VI Justice Kumar, Chief Justice Prakash Narain and the Supreme Court 2740; Natural Justice and/or the duty to act fairly 2762;
Section VII Appointment of Permanent and Additional Judges in High Courts: Some Further Problems 2782;
Section VIII Trall1ie.rQt Judges 2'88;
Section IX Sankcdchand's Case Reconsidered 2796;
Section X Policy Transfers 2811;
Section XI "And Thou, too, Brutus!" 2834;
Section XI1 A Summing up 2854;
Part IV The Supreme Court: Its Working and the Problem of Delay 2858;
Section I The Problem of Delay 2859;
Section II Delay and Procedure of the Supreme Court 2864;
Section III "An . overs peaking Judge is no well tuned Cymbal" 2867;
Section N The disconcerting unpredictability of the Supreme Court 2881:
Section V Is Judicial Review Undemocratic? 2890;
Section VI Conclusion: "A House divided against itself cannot stand" 2895; Note No. 1 The Supreme Court and the part played in it by Justice Bhagwati 2897; Note No. 2 A' Note on Justice .
Section V. Ramaswami and the process of impeachment of a Sup. Ct. Judge: (a) Sub-Committee for Judicial Accountability v. Un ion 2909; (b) Sarojini Ramaswami v. Union 2919;
Part V Supreme Court Advocates Assn. on Record v. Union (The Second Judges' Case) Prologue 2927
; Section I The Second Judges' Case - A Fatally Flawed Decision 2928;
Section II Ignorance or disregard of Legislative History 2930;
Section III Ignorance of. or overlooking, relevant provisions of our Constitution 2932;
Section N Ignorance or disregard of well settled principles of Interpretation including ignorance or disregard of the meaning of ordinary English words 2939; "Philosophy" and "Values" of the Constitution 2943;
Section V "Summary of Conclusions" of Verma J. critically examined 2953; Epilogue: General observations:
The Second Judges' Case 2964 XXVI THE STATE JUDICIARY 2971 XXVII SERVICES UNDER THE UNION AND THE STATES 2987 Part I 2987;
Part n The Shah Commission Report – The Relation Between Ministers and Civil Servants 3055;
Part XIV A: Tribunals (Arts. 323A, 323B) 3067 XXVIII (A) ELECTIONS, (B) SPECIAL PROVISIONS ... 3072 (A) Elections 3072; (B) Special Provisions as regards Certain Classes 3078 XXIX EMERGENCY PROVISIONS OF THE CONSTITUTION 3081
Section I - Arts. 352, 358 and 359: 3081;
Section II -Arts. 355-356: 3084; Post Script: Bommai's Case 3098 XXX AMENDMENT OF THE CONSTITUTION 3109 ADDENDA 3173 Addenda to Vol. I: 3173; Addenda to Vol. H: 3179; Addenda to this Volume (Vol. ill) 3218
APPENDIX I: RIVER WATER DISPUTES 3242
APPENDIX II: AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION 3249.
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