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Revised Syllabus for the Five Year (Sem IX) L.L.B. degree course
Three Year (Sem V)
(As Per Mumbai University)
CIVIL PROCEDURE CODE AND LIMITATION ACT
Civil Procedure Code 85 Marks
Indian Limitation Act 15 Marks
CRIMINAL PROCEDURE CODE,
JUVENILE JUSTICE ACT
AND PROBATION OF OFFENDERS ACT
Criminal Procedure Code, 1973 70 Marks
Juvenile Justice Care and Protection of Children Act, 2000 15 Marks
Probation of Offenders Act, 1958 15 Marks
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INTERPRETATION OF STATUTES
1. Meaning of the term statutes
Commencement, operation and repeal of statutes
Purpose of interpretation of statutes
2. Aids to interpretation
a. Internal Aids
i. Title
ii. Preamble
iii. Headings and marginal notes
iv. Sections and sub sections
v. Punctuation marks
vi. Illustrations, inceptions, provision and saving clauses
vii. Schedules
viii. Non obstante Clause
b. External Aids
i. Dictionaries
ii. Translations
iii. R Travaux preparations
iv. Statutes in para
v. Contemporanea expositio
vi. Debates, inquiry commission reports and law commission
reports.
3. Rules of Statutory Interpretation:
a. Primary rules
b. Literal rules
c. Golden rules
d. Mischief rule
e. Rule of harmonious construction
f. Secondary rule
g. Noscitur a solics
h. Ejusdem generic
i. Reddendo sangula Singulis
4. Presumptions in Statutory interpretation:
a. Statutes are valid.
b. Statutes are territorial in operation.
c. Presumption as to jurisdiction
d. Presumption as to what is inconvenient or absurd
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e. Presumption against intending injustice
f. Presumption against impairing obligation of permitting advantage
from once own wrong.
g. Prospective operation of statutes.
5. Maxims of statutory interpretation
a. Delegatus non-protest delegare.
b. Expressio Unius, Exclusio alterius.
c. In pair deflector potion est condition possidentis.
d. Ulters valet potior est condition possidetis.
e. Expressum facit ussure tactittum.
f. Generalis specialibus non-derogant.
g. In bonam partem.
6. Interpretation with reference to the subject matter and the
purpose.
a. Restrictive and beneficial construction.
b. Taxing structures.
c. Penal statutes
d. Welfare legislation.
e. Interpretation of directory and mandatory provisions
f. Interpretation of substantive and adjunctival statutes.
g. Interpretation of enabling statutes.
h. Interpretation of statutes conferring rights.
i. Interpretation of statutes conferring powers.
7. Principles of constitutional interpretation:
a. Harmonious construction.
b. Doctrine of pith and substance.
c. Colourable legislation
d. Ancillary powers.
e. Occupied field
f. Residuary power
g. Doctrine of prospective overruling
h. Doctrine of repugnancy
i. Doctrine of eclipse.
8. General clauses Act
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PUBLIC INTERNATIONAL LAW AND HUMAN RIGHTS
This paper is divided into three sections:
Human rights 30 Marks
Public International Law 30 Marks
Human Rights in International Law 40 Marks
Human Rights
1. National view on the basis of the Indian constitution and judicial
expositions.
2. Human Rights and Child Abuse
3. Human Rights and Women
4. Human Rights and Workers
5. Human Rights and Environment
6. Human Rights and accused Convicts and Prisoners.
Public International Law
1. Introduction
2. Custom
3. Treaties
4. State territories
5. Recognition of states and government
6. Law and practice of treaties.
7. The law of the Sea.
Human Rights In International Law
Theoretical Foundation, Human Rights & International law.
Basic Principles
1. Sovereign equality of states, non-intervention, non-use of force.
2. Peaceful settlement of dispute
3. Individual as subjects of International law.
4. Treatment of aliens.
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Historical development of human rights
1. Human rights in Indian tradition and western tradition
2. U.N. and human rights
3. Covenant on political and civil rights (1948)
4. Covenant on Economic, Social and cultural rights.
5. ILO and other conventions and protocols dealing with human rights.
6. International HR commission
7. Mandates to state
8. Right to development.
Role to regional organizations:
1. European convention of human right
2. American convention of human rights
Protection agencies and mechanism:
1. International commission of human rights.
2. Amnesty international law.
3. NGO’s in India only
4. European commission of human rights.
5. U.N. declaration of human rights.
6. International labour organization.
7. UNESCO
8. UNICEF
Impact and implementation of international
human rights norms in India.
1. Human rights norms reflected in fundamental rights in the constitution.
2. Directive principles, Legislative and administrative implementation of
International human rights.
3. Implementation of human rights norms through judicial process.
Enforcement of human rights
1. Role of courts; the Supreme Court, the High Court and the other courts.
2. Statutory Commission- Human rights, Women’s minority and backward
class.
