Restatement of Indian Law
CHIEF Justice of India, Justice S.H. Kapadia, yesterday released a set of Restatement of Indian Law in the presence of legal luminaries. These Restatements of Indian Law relate to three subjects: Legislative Privilege, Contempt of Court and Public Interest Litigation. Chairman of the Supreme Court Project Committee on Restatement of Indian Law Justice R.V. Raveendran, G. E. Vahanvati, Attorney General for India and the Director of Indian Law Institute, Professor S. Sivakumar were also present on the occasion. Chief Justice of India is also the Patron of Supreme Court Project Committee on Restatement of Indian Law.
This Restatement of Indian Law would benefit the members of Bar, Bench, Academia, Civil Servants and general public to map the developments in the field of law and to comprehend its current status as the march of Indian law in the last six decades through judicial pronouncements, legislations and their amendments, rules, regulations and other policy measures needs to be restated with clarity of thought. With this objective, the Supreme Court Project Committee on Restatement of Indian Law and the Indian Law Institute had taken up the task of restatement of Indian law in important areas.
The project was essentially to codify Supreme Court judgments on important areas where there were no statutes and clarification was required.