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Description
Writing judgments is an integral part of justicing. But some judges are better judgement writers. Then, there are still some who are better writers and write everything with a certain touch including the judgments. Justice lyer is one of the versatile ones who touched none which he did not adorn; one of those few who are known as much for their enlightening views as for their style of crystallizing ideas into writing.
Justice lyer believes that law is what law does and has never shied away from invoking the judicial process imaginatively and creatively with an eye on just ends so that, at the end of the day, justice is meted out without the procedural or technical cobwebs bogging down the justice-bound ship of the rightful. After all, that is what all laws are aimed at.
Though his tenure as a Supreme Court judge was relatively short, but he still managed to write prodigiously with over 400 opinions sufficient to leave an indelible impression that continues to inspire lawyers and judges in India and abroad.
We place before you a rainbowic collection of Justice lyer's printed and virgin pieces, which is truly astounding in diversity, soothing in precision and vivacious in style and elan. The collection is split under four heads National, Jural, Philosophical and Miscellaneous. However, the book is not just a collection of legal musings but also has an autobiographical feel to it, which is another wonderful reason for one to go through it from cover to cover. That's Justice lyer Legally Speaking with a personal grace.
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Contents
Part I - National
• M.A. Jinnah - The Divisive Genius Who Engineered India's Vivisection
• Blood and Tears as India Divides
• Jawaharlal Nehru, The Raj-Swaraj Process and the Constitution of India
• Nehru Revistied
• The Indian Republic's Wobbling Voyage
• Decadence of Our Democracy (With None to Protest)
• Political State and Civil Society - A Modus Vivendi or Dysfunctional Anarchy
• The ADB Hidden Agenda and Kerala's Debt Trap
• Constitutionally Inscribed Social Justice and Operationally Opposite
Agenda In Practice
• Indian Management Skills and Institutes of Management.
Part II - Jural
• Sombre Vision of Millenial Hind Swaraj - Some Reflections
• Humanitarian Jurisprudence within the Parameters of
• A Global Democratic Order
• Humanitarian Law - A Halting History of Global Evolution
• Marginalised Indian Humanity: Do the Bells of the Constitution Toll for them?
• The Crisis of Contradiction Between the Elite in Power and the
Constitution in Print - Are Judicial Robes mere Dope or Real Hope
• The Judicial Process and Delivery of Social Justice
• Indian Federalism - A Constitutional Chameleon?
• Higher Judicial Appointments - Arcane Processes and Razzamatazz Protocol
• A Code for Child Rights
• Paedodevelopmental (Jeuvnile Justice) Code Needed
• Contempt Power - Utility Or Futility
• Cult of the Robe and Criticism of the Court
• judicial Activism - Use and Abuse
• The Individual and the Indian Republic - A Constitutional Synthesis
• Bharat - An HIV Haven and AIDS Nidus - Need for A Judicial Wake-Up Call
• The POTO Process as Instrument of or Against Terrorism
• Terrorism : Is POTO Fail Safe Jural Sword?
• Memorable Legal Quotations : Mines of Abbreviated Wisdom.
• Committees and Commissions of British Indian Vintage.
• Judicial Activism - Progressions and Transgressions
• Jurisprudence of Judicial Strictures
• The Gladsome Light of Jurisprudence
• Global Jurisprudence is Dead: Rest In Peace!
• Patent Law - Patently Unfair?
Part III - Philosophy
• Karal Marx and Vivekananda
• Our Ancient Heritage
• Dialectics and Dynamics of Religious Cultural Crisis
• A Tribute to A Sanskrit Scholar
Part IV - Miscellaneous
• My Supreme Court Days - A Wan Span Or Years of Elan?
• Freedom For Whom? Why? How?
• Fuel Futurology and Quest For Justice
• Bharathiyar: Bard of Freedom, Minstrel of Human Rights
• Paulose Mar Paulose - Encounter In humanization
• A Brief Tribute - Music Maestro - K.V. Narayanaswamy
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Author Details
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer born on 15 November, 1915, in northern Kerala and educated in Annamalai and Madras Universities, practised law and defended peasants and workers against the exploitation of the feudal lords who had full support of the colonial regime.
In 1956 Mr. lyer was elected initially to the Madras Legislative Assembly and later, after reorganization of Sates, to the Kerala Assembly, where he was chosen as Minister in charge of important portfolios like Home, Law, Social Welfare and Irrigation.
He was appointed judge of the Kerala High Court in July 1968 and became the Member of Indian Law Commission two years later.
In 1973 the Supreme Court of India beckoned him where he played an important role in an era of judicial activism, public interest litigation, affirmative action through Courts and a wide ranging exercise of judicial review for which the Indian Judiciary is hailed throughout the world today. Though his tenure in the Apex Court was relatively short, he managed to make a lasting impression on public mind. He is the author of numerous books and has penned innumerable articles and is a leading member of several social organizations and professional bodies.
Mr. Justice lyer is an Honorary Visiting Professor of the National Law School and a promoter of its Community Law Reform Programme. He has been honoured with several coveted awards and distinctions from various organizations around the world. He is the only Indian Judge on whom three doctoral theses have been written by the. scholars in three different Universities.
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