{"id":31419,"date":"2025-03-23T07:15:24","date_gmt":"2025-03-23T01:45:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=31419"},"modified":"2025-04-16T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T06:19:00","slug":"doctrine-of-precedent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/doctrine-of-precedent\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctrine of Precedent"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Doctrine of Precedent Latest News<\/h2>\n<p>The Kerala High Court recently reaffirmed that any tax assessment orders passed on ignorance of binding precedents set by higher courts are violative of the doctrine of precedent and thus unsustainable.<\/p>\n<h2>About Doctrine of Precedent<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The doctrine of precedent is the <strong>custom of the courts to stand by previous decisions<\/strong>, so that <strong>once a point of law is decided <\/strong>upon by a court, then the s<strong>ame law must be applied to future cases<\/strong> with materially similar facts.<\/li>\n<li>It is often <strong>referred to as &#8216;stare decisis&#8217;.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The l<strong>ower court<\/strong>s will take account of and<strong> follow the decisions made by the higher courts.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It ensures consistency, predictability, and stability by obligating courts to follow the legal principles established in previous decisions.<\/li>\n<li>The <strong>foundation <\/strong>of the doctrine of precedent <strong>lies in Article 141<\/strong> of the Indian Constitution.\u00a0\n<ul>\n<li>This article states that the <strong>law declared by the Supreme Court is binding on all courts <\/strong>within India.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>Essentially, lower courts must follow the legal interpretations and judgments laid down by the Supreme Court.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Key Aspects:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Ratio Decidendi<\/strong>: The <strong>legal reasoning that forms the binding part of a judgmen<\/strong>t.<strong> Courts must follow this <\/strong>in similar cases.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Obiter Dicta: Non-essential remarks <\/strong>made by the court. Although<strong> not binding, <\/strong>they can be <strong>influential in future cases.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Landmark Judgment:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>The <strong>State of Orissa v. Mamata Patnaik (1978)<\/strong> case highlighted the significance of following precedent.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>The Supreme Court emphasised that adherence to established legal principles ensures consistency in the application of law.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Doctrine of Precedent FAQs<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Q1<\/strong>. Which article of the Indian Constitution establishes the binding nature of Supreme Court judgments?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Article 141<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q2<\/strong>. What is \u2018Obiter Dicta\u2019 in a court judgment?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. Non-essential remarks that are not binding but may be influential.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q3<\/strong>. What is a &#8220;Persuasive Precedent&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ans<\/strong>. A precedent that can be considered by a court but is not binding.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxscan.in\/orders-ignoring-binding-precedents-are-in-violation-of-the-doctrine-of-precedent-and-cannot-be-countenanced-kerala-hc\/500385\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">TAXS<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doctrine of Precedent is the custom of the courts to stand by previous decisions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":31420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31419","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}