Restatement of Indian Law: Contempt of Court
The Restatement of law seeks to identify and remove the ambiguities surrounding the legal principles, and clarify the law for its better adaptation to the needs of society.
THE RESENTMENT of law seeks to identify and remove the ambiguities surrounding the legal principles, and clarify the law for its better adaptation to the needs of society. The book Restatement of Indian Law: Contempt of Court, which was launched by Chief Justice of India S.H. Kapadia along with Supreme Court judge Altamas Kabir, Supreme Court judges Justice R.V. Raveendran and Justice A.K. Ganguly in New Delhi on October 11, 2011 is essentially a codification (compilation) of basic legal principles and case law, which either explains the statutory provisions or lays down the principles in areas not covered by statutes. This codification gradually develops into recognized and accepted principles. Though Restatement of Law may not be a binding authority, it will be of a higher persuasive value because it is formulated with extensive inputs from academicians, scholars, practicing lawyers and judges. It reflects the consensus of legal community as to what the law is and what it should become.
Authored by Supreme Court Project Committee on Restatement of Indian Law and The Indian Law Institute, New Delhi this book is more than a treatise but not quite the law on Contempt of Courts with excellent scholarship, debate and inputs from a large section of very widely respected lawyers and judges, providing a viewpoint on what constitutes contempt of court, based on law and landmark judgments.
Congratulating the Supreme Court Project Committee and the Indian Law Institute on the release of the book, the Chief Justice of India said “This ambitious project would publish Restatements on various important topics in future and Justice Raveendran would continue to be its Chairman even after his retirement”. Justice Raveendran, in turn, announced a list of topics which would engage the priority attention of the Committee for preparation of further Restatements in the coming years.
The book derives its strength from the scholarship that provides its foundation and the clarity with which that scholarship is articulated. The final version of the Restatement has benefitted enormously from the comments of Justice M.N. Venkatachalliah, Soli J. Sorabjee, Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, Mr. A.K. Ganguli, Prof. V.B. Coutinho, Prof. Balraj Chauhan, and several others.
Thomas Abraham, Managing Director, CCH India, says “We believe this book has mass potential in the legal community and gives us the opportunity to reach a wide base of customers. Our distribution channel is very excited to sell this book given the appeal across cities in India and opportunity to sell in volumes. We look forward to our association with ILI to review more opportunities in the future that can address the legal community with publications of value and relevance”.
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