Courts and their judgments premises, prerequisites, consequences

"The first Lawasia lecture"--Jacket.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Machine generated contents note: The setting -- 1. An annual lecture 3 -- 2. Our protectors 5 -- Bringing about a change -- 3. When an institution -- has to take on the work of others 13 -- Spreading out -- 4. The "State" of India 65 -- 5. A meta-consequence 109 -- 6. From "life" to "life with dignity" -- to the pay of Imams 143 -- Some consequences -- 7. "The resultant legal chaos" 201 -- 8. The cascading effect 239 -- Time and place -- 9. Going along 263 -- 10. Shutting one's eyes 274 -- 11. Some rules of thumb 285 -- 12. Alert enough to get what we need? 297 -- The government as a litigant -- 13. Some way to discipline staffl 319 -- 14. The fate of remedies 359 -- 15. "Before parting, -- we place on record our deep anguish" 370 -- The standards we need, the ones by which we are judged -- 16. Activism, and its prerequisites 399 -- 17. A premise we cannot afford 422 -- 18. We can't save the country on a part-time basis 429 -- Indices -- 19. Cases cited 439 -- 20. Index 446.

With reference to India.