Judiciary (Part V Chapter IV; Part VI Chapters V and VI)
Whole chapter · 20–30 focused hours
Judiciary (Part V Chapter IV; Part VI Chapters V and VI)
A first-attempt learner with school-level reading. Later institution chapters assume constitutional foundations; comparison chapters reuse earlier learning and Modern History context. Professional legal training is outside scope.
Includes
- Selected explanatory readings and dated primary-provision extracts
- Institution/procedure comparisons and short case reasoning
- Available mapped practice, mistake review and one initial recall review
Separate time needed
- Later spaced revisions and full mock examinations
- Full reading of every statute, judgment, reference book and procedural rule
- Exclude a full second study of Fundamental Rights/writ doctrine and professional legal procedure. Judicial interpretations need separate current verification.
Editorial planning estimate; not measured learner time
- Supreme Court: composition, appointment, removal, independence
- Supreme Court: jurisdiction and powers
- Judicial review, judicial activism and independence of the judiciary
- High Courts
- Subordinate courts, legal aid and the legal profession
- Alternative dispute resolution
Whole chapter reading
- NCERT Class XI Indian Constitution at Work, Chapter 6: Judiciary ↗
Explanatory text, diagrams and selected case questions; numerical/current-office examples must be checked against the dated primary sources.
- The Constitution of India ↗
Articles 124–147, 214–237 and 39A; use the dated official text and check subsequent amendments/decisions separately.
- Courseware on Indian Polity, 8th edition (M. Laxmikanth) ↗
Chapters 26–29, 34–35 and 38; selected explanations only where the school/constitutional readings leave gaps. Chapter numbers refer to the retained English publisher contents, not other language editions.
Book required - The Judges (Inquiry) Act, 1968 ↗
Investigation procedure for a removal motion
- The Legal Services Authorities Act, 1987 ↗
ss. 3–4, 6–13, 19–22E; prescribed thresholds and amended cross-references must be read separately, not copied from historical defaults
- Supreme Court of India, Supreme Court Advocates-On-Record vs Union Of India on 16 October, 2015 ↗
Goel J., paras 3.1–3.4 (pre-amendment appointment procedure), read with Order of the Court, points 2–4 restoring that system
- The Contempt of Courts Act, 1971 ↗
ss. 2, 5, 13, 15
- The Gram Nyayalayas Act, 2008 ↗
ss. 3–6, 11–14, 26–27
- The Advocates Act, 1961 ↗
ss. 6–7, 17, 24, 35
- What is Arbitration? ↗
Opening mechanism and decision-maker comparison only; Indian statutory forums use their separately assigned Acts.
· Supplementary - What is Mediation? ↗
Opening mechanism and decision-maker comparison only; Indian statutory forums use their separately assigned Acts.
· Supplementary