Justice B P Banerjee-Writ Remedies 2 Vols

- Writ Remedies is a comprehensive reference work on the law and procedure relating to the writ jurisdiction in India and abroad.
- This publication examines
- The origins and development of the prerogative writs in England
- Their evolution into the contemporary ‘directions, orders or writs’ under the Constitution of India
- The writ jurisdiction of the various superior courts and
- The scope of remedies available under the Constitutions of India and other countries, as illustrated in thousands of classic and recent cases.
- Apart from its comprehensive coverage of current issues and legal concepts, it offers invaluable practical help to legal professionals.
This fifth edition includes new chapters dealing with

Curative Remedies (Chapter 2A),
Appointment of Supreme Court and High Court Judges (Chapter 19A) and
Human Rights (Chapter 23) have been added in.
- Part II of the book provides guidelines for drafting writ petitions including model petitions. Part III contains the High Court Rules for writ petitions under Article 226 of the Constitution of India.

This book closely examines well over 6,000 significant cases from the Supreme Court of India and also from the superior courts of the U.K., U.S.A., Australia, New Zealand other jurisdictions.
Fully explains the scope of judicial review in respect of administrative actions of public bodies, Governmental and other public institutions amenable to judicial review.
Discusses hundreds of enforceable rights and thus creates awareness of rights in relation to governmental/administrative errors and injustices.

Chapter 1 General Introduction
Chapter 2 Scope of Articles 32 And 226 of the Constitution
Chapter 3 Against Whom Writ Lies
Chapter 4 Locus Standi
Chapter 5 Alternative Remedy
Chapter 6 Delay, Acquiescence and Estoppel
Chapter 7 Suppression of Material Facts
Chapter 8 Public Law and Private Law
Chapter 9 Mandamus
Chapter 10 Certiorari
Chapter 11 Prohibition
Chapter 12 Quo-Warranto
Chapter 13 Writ of Evocation
Chapter 14 Writ of Procedendo
Chapter 15 Habeas Corpus
Chapter 16 Grounds of Judicial Review
Chapter 17 Intensity of Judicial Review
Chapter 18 Practice and Procedures
Chapter 19 Judicial Review of Cases
Chapter 20 Judicial Activism
Chapter 21 Public Interest Litigation
Chapter 22 What Rights do we have
Chapter 23 Human Rights

Bhagabati Prosad Banerjee was the Presiding Judge of the Green Bench of the Calcutta High Court and after retirement in 1998, served as Chairman of the Appellate Tribunal of the Pollution Control Board. He has delivered various lectures on Constitutional matters, Human Rights and Environmental issues and has also written several books on other legal topics.

Bhaskar Prosad Banerjee is an Advocate at the Calcutta High Court and a budding scholar.