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Description
Justice Bhagwati is one of India's, and indeed one of the world's, most outstanding jurists, a great thinker, philosopher and visionary. His judgments delivered first as a Judge of the Gujarat High Court and then as a Judge and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of India have laid great stress and emphasis on the social upliftment of the poor and the downtrodden.
In many of his judgments Justice Bhagwati said that law has to respond to the unsatisfied urges and demands of the people and bring about a socio-economic revolution. If justice is to be done, he said often, then law must not become stagnant or archaic while society moves forward. It must be accessible, intelligible and must change with the time, responding to the realities of modern life. By his skill, he was able to develop the law and adopt it to the needs of his own time.
The book covers a wide range of subjects of constitutional, legal and social importance dealt with in the judgments delivered by Justice Bhagwati during his long career as a judge analysing and examining them critically with reference to the judgments of courts of various other countries, particularly those of England and USA and exploring their true meaning and significance.
The book also presents a comparative study of human rights jurisprudence of different countries against the background of Indian decisions with particular reference to Justice Bhagwati's decisions covering a wide area of jurisprudential thinking
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Author Details
Authors - Ram Kishore Choudhury, Tapash Gan Choudhury
Choudhury is a practicing lawyer and was a Senior Partner of Khaitan & Co., one of the oldest and most renowned law firms in India. He is now the Senior Consultant of the said law firm.
Choudhury has been advising diverse clientele of business and financial enterprises, large business houses, multi-national organisations, banks, financial institutions, government bodies and investment banks.
Out of multifarious activities of his life, Choudhury always works out of the time in writing articles for law and has penned innumerable articles. His articles titled "Lawyer's Strike" and "Terrorism" published in "Observer" were widely applauded.
He is a leading member of several social organisations and professional bodies.
Tapash Gan Choudhury
Gan Choudhury joined the legal profession as an Advocate of Calcutta High Court on March 14, 1975. In connection with his practice in the fields of constitution and taxation, he travels the length and breadth of the country.
Gan Choudhury was associated for sometime with a Calcutta University affiliated law college as a guest lecturer. He also served as the Adjunct Professor of Law at the Vinod Gupta School of Management, IIT, Kharagpur, West Bengal.
Gan Choudhury has authored a number of legal treatise. His book "Penumbra of Natural Justice" has drawn high appreciation from legal luminaries like Justice P.N. Bhagwati, Rt. Hon'ble Lord Bingham of Corn Hill, former Chief Justice of England, Justice Jeffrey Miles, Chief Justice of Australia, Justice I. Mahomed, Chief Justice of South Africa, Justice G.PS. DeSilva, Chief Justice of Sri Lanka, Justice Badrul Haider Chowdhury, Chief Justice of Bangladesh.
He is associated with a number of social and cultural organizations of national repute in various capacities.
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