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The questions below are the paper as the University of Mumbai set it at the Nov 2015 examination, in the order it was set.
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The Paper as Set
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Duration 3 hours · Total marks 100 · 25 questions answered
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Q.1
Answer in short, not more than two sentences 20 Marks
(1)What is Doctrine of Res-judicata?[2]
Answer
Res judicata means "a matter already adjudged". The doctrine is that once a competent court has finally decided a matter between parties, neither of them may raise the same matter again. Its Latin form is res judicata pro veritate accipitur, a thing adjudged is taken for truth.
Its statutory basis. Section 11 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908. No court shall try any suit or issue in which the matter directly and substantially in issue has been directly and substantially in issue in a former suit between the same parties, litigating under the same title, in a court competent to try the subsequent suit, and has been heard and finally decided.
Its five conditions.
- The matter must be directly and substantially in issue in both proceedings.
- The former suit must have been between the same parties, or those claiming under them.
- They must have litigated under the same title.
- The former court must have been competent to try the later suit.
- The matter must have been heard and finally decided.
Constructive res judicata, in Explanation IV to section 11, extends it: any matter which might and ought to have been raised as a ground of attack or defence is deemed to have been directly and substantially in issue.
Why it matters in administrative law. The doctrine applies to writ petitions too. Daryao v. State of Uttar Pradesh AIR 1961 SC 1457 held that where a petition under Article 226 has been dismissed on the merits, a fresh petition under Article 32 on the same facts is barred by res judicata, because finality of litigation is a matter of public policy. A dismissal in limine without reasons, or on the ground of laches or an alternative remedy, does not bar a later petition. Direct Recruit Class II Engineering Officers Association v. State of Maharashtra (1990) 2 SCC 715 applied constructive res judicata to service litigation.
Conclusion. Res judicata prevents the same dispute being litigated twice. It rests on two maxims: interest reipublicae ut sit finis litium, it is in the public interest that litigation should end, and nemo debet bis vexari pro una et eadem causa, no one should be vexed twice for the same cause. In this subject its importance is that it binds the writ jurisdiction, on Daryao.
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