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I. Primary Sources (Has Mandatory or Binding Authority)

This document outlines the primary and secondary sources of law in India. Primary sources that have mandatory authority include cases from the Supreme Court and district courts, statutes, the Constitution, and administrative materials like regulations and decisions. Secondary sources that are persuasive but not mandatory include commentaries, treaties, dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, bills, reports, parliamentary debates, digests, and academic journals. Non-legal sources like newspapers, magazines, year books, and statistics are also mentioned.

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I. Primary Sources (Has Mandatory or Binding Authority)

This document outlines the primary and secondary sources of law in India. Primary sources that have mandatory authority include cases from the Supreme Court and district courts, statutes, the Constitution, and administrative materials like regulations and decisions. Secondary sources that are persuasive but not mandatory include commentaries, treaties, dictionaries, encyclopedias, indexes, bills, reports, parliamentary debates, digests, and academic journals. Non-legal sources like newspapers, magazines, year books, and statistics are also mentioned.

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Sources of Law

I. Primary Sources (has mandatory or binding authority):

• Cases (Court Judgments)

Judgements - Indian Supreme Court & District Courts


SCC Online: Supreme Court Cases Online (India)
Manupatra (Indian Law)
LexisLibrary (India : case law)
Indian Kanoon

• Statutes, Constitution, Legislative History

The Constitution
Acts of Parliament-https://indiacode.nic.in/
Central legislations in Official Gazette of the GOI
State legislations in State Gazettes
Government websites- https://www.india.gov.in/
Bare Acts, Manuals
SCC ONLINE, MANUPATRA, Westlaw, and LexisNexis. (For Statutes & History)

• Administrative materials : regulations and decisions

General Statutory Rules and Orders


Gazette of India / Gazette of State: - http://egazette.nic.in/

• Rules of procedure and ethics

Advocate Act, 1961


Bar Council Of India Rules

II. Secondary Sources (is not of mandatory authority, holds persuasive value, used in order
to interpret and analyse the primary sources of law & to advance an argument more
forcefully):
• Commentaries/Books on specific laws
• Treaties- Indian Treaties Database (Legal and Treaties Division of the Ministry of External
Affairs, India)
• Legal Dictionaries/Law Lexicons: Black’s Law Dictionary.
• Legal encyclopedic works – eg. American jurisprudence, corpus juris secundum, Halsbury law
of England, and Halsbury laws of India
• Indexes: Index to Indian Legal Periodicals, Index to Legal Periodicals, Index to Foreign Legal
Periodicals, etc.
• Parliamentary Bills –
Lok Sabha Bills;
Rajya Sabha Bills;
State Legislature Bills
• Reports –
Law Commission Reports;
Committee/Commission Reports- National Human Rights Commission, Minorities
Commission, Women’s Commission,etc.;
Annual Reports;
Parliamentary Committee Reports - Joint Committee, Select Committee & Standing
Committee
• Parliamentary Debates –
Constituent Assembly Debates;
Lok Sabha Debates;
Rajya Sabha Debates
• Digests:
Supreme Court Yearly Digest (Lucknow: E.B. Co.) ,
Complete Digest of Supreme Court Cases (Lucknow: E.B. Co.),
Supreme Court Millennium Digest (Nagpur: AIR Publications)
• Academic Journals – Indian & Foreign
Annual Survey of Indian Law (New Delhi: ILI)
Journal Indian Law Institute
Journal of Constitutional & Parliamentary Studies
Indian Journal of International Law
Indian Bar Review
National Law School of Indian Review
Journal of Human Rights (NHRC)

III. Non legal Sources:


• Newspapers- The Hindu, The Indian Express etc.
• Magazines- LAWYER MONTHLY MAGAZINE, THE STUDENT LAWYER MAGAZINE, NEW LAW
JOURNAL, THE NEW JURIST MAGAZINE, PRECEDENT MAGAZINE etc.
• Year Books
• Statistics
• Non Legal Journals- Jstor etc.

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