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Semester 3 · Second Year · 4 credits

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Syllabus for History of Courts

Semester 3 · Second Year · 4 credits

Module I

  • Administration of Justice (1600-1780), Regulating Act of 1773 & Settlement Act of 1781
  • 1 Administration of Justice in the presidency Towns and Development of courts under East India Company (1600- 1773)
  • 1.1.1 Period from 1600- 1726, Establishment of Mayor‘s Court (1726),
  • 1.1.2 Changes introduced by the Charter of 1753, Warren Hastings Plan of 1772, Reforms under the plan of 1774 and Recognition in1780.
  • 1.2 Regulating Act of 1773: Provisions of the Act, Establishment of Supreme Court at Calcutta under the Charter of 1774, Working of Supreme Court at Calcutta Cases: Trial of Raja Nandkumar, Trial of Radha Charan, Patna Trial, Kamalluddin‘s Case Cossijurah Case, Saroopchand‘s Case, Gora Gopichand‘s Case.
  • 1.3 Settlement Act of 1781
  • 1.4 Judicial Reforms of Lord Cornwallis- Judicial Plan of 1787, Judicial Plan of 1790, Judicial Plan of 1793, Progress of Adalat System under Sir John Shore.

Module II

  • Conflict Arising out of the Dual Judicial System & Judicial Committee of the Privy
  • Council
  • 2.1 Conflict Arising out of the Dual Judicial System
  • 2.1.1 Indian High Court Act1861, High Court under GOI Act 1915, High Court under GOI Act 1935.
  • 2.2 Judicial Committee of the Privy Council
  • 2.2.1 Appeals to Privy Council between1726-1860, Appeals to Privy Council between 1861- 1949.

Module III

  • Court System under the Constitution of India & Rule of Law, Independence of Judiciary & Separation of Powers:
  • 3.1 Court System under the Constitution of India: Supreme Court, High Court, Subordinate Courts &Writ Jurisdiction
  • 3.2 Rule of Law, Independence of Judiciary & Separation of Powers: Before independence andafter independence

Module IV

  • History of Legislature & History of Legal Profession:
  • 4.1 History of Legislature
  • 4.1.1 Charter of1600
  • 4.1.2 Charter of 1813 &1833
  • 4.1.3 Indian Council Act of 1861, 1892 & 1909
  • 4.1.4 Government of India Act, 1919 & 1935
  • 4.1.5 Indian Independence Act, 1947
  • 1 History of Legal Profession:
  • 4.2.1 Legal profession in Pre-British India
  • 4.2.2 Law Practitioners in the Mayor‘s Court1726
  • 4.2.3 Legal Profession under Charter of 1774
  • 4.2.4 Legal Profession in the Company‘s Court and Legal Practitioners Act, 1853
  • 4.2.5 High Court Act, 1861
  • 4.2.6 Legal Practitioners Act, 1879 and All India Bar Committee of 1951
  • 4.2.7 Introduction to Advocates Act, 1961
  • 4.2.8 Law Reporting in India.

Recommended Resources

  • 1 History of Courts, Legislative and Legal Profession- Kailash Rai
  • 2 Indian Legal History- M. A. Jain
  • 3 Indian Constitution and Legal History- S.D. Kulashresh
  • 4 Herbet Cowall- The History and Constitution of the Courts and Legislative Authorities in India,1936

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai Revised Syllabus for LL.B. (5 years) Five Years Integrated Course (CBCS), in force from the academic year 2022-23 and amended in June 2023. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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