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About this topic ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) These notes cover the 57 most important cases of Indian Constitutional Law . They are the cases that keep coming up in LL.B. examinations, in judiciary examinations and in every serious discussion of constitutional law. Every case is studied…
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About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) Administrative Law is studied in seven units, from what administrative law is and why it grew, to how a citizen can get information, complain against corruption and hold public bodies to account. It is at work whenever a person applies for…
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About this subject ▶ Watch this part of the lecture (0:00) A judge must decide, months or years later, what happened in an incident the judge never saw. The only way is through evidence , the bridge between the past event and the present courtroom. The Law of Evidence decides which planks can build…
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Supreme Court of India · 1994
A nine-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court held that the President's satisfaction under Article 356 is not absolute and is open to judicial review. The Court held that a government's majority must be tested on the floor of the Assembly, not at Raj Bhavan, and declared secularism and federalism to be basic features of the Constitution. The case put a clear brake on the misuse of President's Rule against State governments.
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