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037			_cPurchased _nPrism Books, Kadavanthra
041			_aEnglish
082			_a340.02 _bTUS/LA
100			_aTushar Mehta
245			_aLAWFUL AND THE AWFUL _b: Quirky Tales From the World of Law
250			_a1
260			_aNew Delhi _bRupa Publications _c2026
300			_g323
500			_aThe citadel of justice is solemn and serious by design. But this book looks beyond that façade, bringing together a series of intriguing and surprising episodes that will appeal not only to lawyers and judges, but to non-legal readers as well. In The Lawful and the Awful, Tushar Mehta takes the reader into the lesser-known corners of the legal world, where personality presses against principle and the law reveals a side of itself rarely seen. Drawing on real cases from courts across the world, these pages recount judges who brandished loaded pistols inside courtrooms, penned poetry instead of judgments, or pronounced sentences from improbable places; the sharp wit and wisdom of the inimitable Justice Scalia; and memorable instances of the British art of courtroom humour. Written with wit, measured sarcasm, and the practised eye of a courtroom insider, these essays do not seek either to scandalize or to sermonize. They simply remind us that the citadel of justice is not always as solemn as it appears—and that the line between what is lawful and what is awful can sometimes be thinner than we might like to believe. This blurring of the line is what makes the law all the more interesting and fascinating.
650			_aLaw
650			_aMiscellanies of law
650			_aHistorical and geographic treatment of law
650			_aCourts and judicial administration
942			_cLEN
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999			_c198794 _d198794