Legal Guide

Legal Citation The  Guide to Legal Citation explains legal citation formats for all types of legal documents in a clear, pedagogically sound manner. The Guide’s plain language, numerous examples, and clear, integrated structure to explaining the legal system of citation for legal materials is easy for students, professors, practitioners, and judges to understand and use. It was written and vetted by legal writing professors who have decades of experience teaching the citation format. One of the Guide’s fundamental goals is to be a restatement of the rules of citation to make citation easier to teach, easier to learn, and easier to do. To that end, it has three distinguishing features. The citations that result from using the Guide are identical to legal citations advanced in other legal citation manuals, but the Guide is written with teaching and learning in mind. The Guide seamlessly integrates the citation rules used in practice-based documents with those used in academic footno...

As the highest court in India, the Supreme Court’s judgments are binding on all other courts in the country. It serves both as the final court of appeals and final interpreter of the Constitution. Owing to these vast powers, many including Attorney General K.K. Venugopal have labelled it among the most powerful courts in the world. Its authority stems from the Constitution of India. Supreme Court History The Federal Court of India was created as per the Government of India Act 1935. This court settled disputes between provinces and federal states and heard appeals against judgements of the high courts. After independence, the Federal Court and the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council were replaced by the Supreme Court of India, which came into being in January 1950. The Constitution of 1950 envisaged a Supreme Court with one Chief Justice and 7 puisne Judges. The number of SC judges was increased by the Parliament and currently, there are 34 judges including the Chief Justice of I...