Courts and their Judgements Quotes

“Before parting, we place on record our deep anguish …”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Can we keep up at this pace?”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“That question should have struck the Court.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“That is dangerous forgetting, for that judgment deserves as much to be burnt into our consciousness as ADM Jabalpur.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“ADM Jabalpur remains a monument to cowardice dressed up in legalisms.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“The bail had barely been granted and a faction of the Republican Party of India organized a function in the same hall to felicitate and honour the assailants for having successfully attacked me – a fact that, being merely in the public domain, was obviously not something the court would take note of!”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“The air we breathe in Delhi this winter is much cleaner than it was two or three winters ago; fewer pollutants are being dumped into the Yamuna. Each of these turnarounds is traceable solely to the directions that the Supreme Court gave.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“he air we breathe in Delhi this winter is much cleaner than it was two or three winters ago; fewer pollutants are being dumped into the Yamuna. Each of these turnarounds is traceable solely to the directions that the Supreme Court gave.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“That axiom applies to judgments as much as to the laws themselves.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Rulings – or laws – are so far ahead of reality; or if Courts, having decreed a remedy, do not follow up to ensure that it is being adhered to...”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“But it is also true that sometimes I have had to watch helplessly as the courts could not be persuaded to do what seemed clearly within their power...”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Where one stands on an issue depends on where one sits.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“The courts, and, of course, the support of our readers, were our only dykes.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“In fact, it is a good enough reason to change one’s chairs from time to time – not just one’s job, one’s profession itself. We then get to see things that have become so familiar as to seem stale, from unaccustomed, refreshing angles.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“How statutory bodies waste public money in fruitless litigation to satisfy misplaced ego is demonstrated by this petition.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Nothing, but nothing happened.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“The ‘law in books’ v. the ‘law in action”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“So, the courts are our protectors. But on occasion we have to strain to comprehend why they keep looking the other way.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Outside the state structure there is just about as much fear of the courts as there is of income tax among our non-salaried class”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“The state structure is marked by – that should perhaps be, ‘marred by’ – kargozari, by the show of work, not work. There is at all times much activity, but at most little movement.”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences

“Where one stands on an issue depends on where one sits”
― Arun Shourie, Courts and their Judgements: Premises, Prerequisites, Consequences