Professional Documents
Culture Documents
4. Parliament
5. The Judiciary
- Independence of Judiciary
- Appointment and removal of judges of the Supreme Court and High
Courts
- Jurisdiction of Supreme Court and High Courts
6. Emergency Provisions
- National Emergency
- State Emergency – Breakdown of Constitutional machinery in State
- Financial Emergency
7. Constitutional Amendments
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5.2 Jurisprudence – Law and legal concepts
1. Law
- Definition
- Function of law in society
- Kinds of Law
2. Sources of Law.
- Custom - Essentials of a valid custom
- When custom becomes law
- Precedent - Doctrine of stare decisis
- Ratio decidendi and Obiter dicta
- Legislation
3. Law and Morals
4. Administration of justice and judicial hierarchy
5. Legal rights Claim, liberty, power and immunity.
Kinds
Right-duty correlation
Hohfeld’s analysis
6. Ownership
7. Possession
8. Persons
- Juristic persons and natural persons
- Corporate personality
– Corporate sole and corporate aggregate
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5.3 Labour Law - II
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5.4 Criminal Procedure - I
1. Introduction
The rationale of criminal procedure
The importance of fair trial in criminal proceedings
Right to a fair criminal trial from the Human Right perspective
Basic fair trial criteria
2. Basic concepts
- Bailable and Non-bailable Offences
- Non-cognizable and Cognizable Offences
- Summons and Warrant cases
- Inquiry, Investigation and Trial
- Complaint
- Charge
- Discharge
- Acquittal
3. Pre-trial process
Arrest
- Meaning and purpose of arrest
- Arrest with or without warrant
- After arrest procedure
- Rights of arrested person and consequences of non-compliance
FIR
- Definition
- Evidentiary value of FIR
Complaint
- Meaning and essentials of a criminal complaint
- Difference between FIR and complaint
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5.5 Honours Law Course - I
Law and the Child
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5.6 Optional Seminar Course - I
Socio-economic offences
1. Conception
- "Social" and "Economic" offences - Distinction between them
- Notion of "White Collar crimes"
- Sutherland's analysis
- Critique of Sutherland's analysis
- Applicability to Indian conditions
- Santhanam Committee Report - Law Commission of India Report
2. Corruption
- General conception of 'Corruption', 'Bribery', 'Nepotism' and 'Favouritism'
- Causes of rise in corruption
- Corruption under the Indian Penal code
- Santhanam Committee analysis
- The Special Legal regime - The Prevention of Corruption act
- Investigation under the Criminal Laws (Amendment) Act, 1952
- Sanction for prosecution
-Category of Public Servants liable for prosecution for corruption cases
- Relevant aspects of the Antulay case
- Sentencing policies and patterns
- Central Vigilance Commission
3. Black money
- Conception of 'black money'
- Disproportionate assets
- Legal provisions for investigating into Black Money
- Sentencing policies and patterns
- Amnesty - Retroactive legalization of Black Money
through Voluntary Disclosure Schemes
and Bearer Bonds
4. Organized Crime
- Smuggling
- Drug Trafficking
- Chit Fund swindles
- Prostitution
- Recent enactments by States to curb organized crime
- Pollution of Environment
- Provisions in the Indian Penal code
- Provisions in the Environmental legislations
- Medical malpractices
6. Crimes against disadvantaged and vulnerable groups
- Dowry murders
- Atrocities against Untouchables
- Bonded Labour
8. Alternative/Additional Strategy
- Ombudsman
- Tax reforms
- Electoral reforms
- Reform of prosecution structure
- Alternate sanctioning and approval policies
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