Category Archives: Jurisprudence

Views of Theorists on the ‘Importance of Justice’– Salmond– Salmond said that the ‘Definition of law itself reflects that Administration of Justice has to be done by the state on the basis of rules and principles recognized’. Roscoe Pound– He believed that it is the court who has to administer justice in a state. Both, Roscoe Pound and Salmond……...

Precedent means judgment or decision of a court of law cited as an authority for the legal principle embodied in it. The doctrine of precedent which is also known as stare decisis,  i.e. stand by the decision, is based on the principle that like cases should be decided alike. Once a case is decided by judge by applying……...

When we say that a judicial decision is binding as a precedent, what we really mean is that a rule or principle formulated and applied in that decision must be applied when similar facts arise in future. This rule or principle is the ratio decidendi which is at the centre of the doctrine of precedent. The expression ratio……...