Contempt of Court by V.K. Mehrotra – 6th Edition 2002

Description

The work has been updated with the addition of case-law supplement.This edition of the book follows the pattern of the earlier editions in so far as it maintains a discussion of the constitutional and statutory provisions relating to contempt jurisdiction as obtaining in India together with what the courts have ruled from time to time. In addition, recent judicial thinking in some countries following the Anglo-saxon system of jurisprudence has also been noticed.

Many instances of contempt end at the preliminary stage on tender of apology but are nevertheless important precedents. This book has discussed all such important instances and such discussion is not to be found in any other publication.

Important and related topics of contempt by the Press, by Lawyers, by Judges and Presiding Officers of their own Court find ample discussion in this book. The subject of Contempt and Parliament and Legislatures in India has also been dealt with.

Each chapter is headed by a synopsis. The appendices cover legal forms and warrants and the various High Court rules on contempt. A detailed subject index is also provided.

Extract from the Foreword :

“V. G. Ramachandran is a legend in legal literature and his work on Contempt of Court is a classic. Its excellence is testified by the fact that five editions have already flourished and the sixth one, more exhaustive and updated, is being published. Justice V.K. Mehrotra, a scholarly jurist, with tireless energy, has done extensive revision and made the book a vade mecum for those who need to know the latest on the law of contempt of court. He has imparted a comparative dimension to the book by travelling across to the UK and the USA for the Contempt law in those countries. The book bristles with learning and even remote, recondite and startling topics are trapped in the lucubrious pages of the luminous and voluminous wonder of VGR’s Contempt of Court. Mehrotra’s magnificent revisory effort has left no stone unturned, so much so, in its present form this compilation is a proud possession for any law library.

The great book for which I write this foreword deals splendidly with the Alpha to Omega of Contempt jurisprudence. In recent times, a trifle peevishly or hypersensitively, courts have used the power so in gay abandon that ‘contempt dockets’ clutter court work. This should not be. Ramachandran’s updated treatise is a must for the Judges and lawyers, with its authoritative statements, correct and comprehensive… I commend this erudite edition to every student of law and justice…”