K.Kannan, Editor, Madras Law Journal with R.Yashod Vardhan, Advocates, Madras High Court ‘ The law must be stable, but must not stand still’, said an eminent US Jurist, Roscoe Pound. The march of law is forever a forward progression. Law obtains refinement only through lawyers’ oration and judges’ pen. The year 2006 has seen significant strides in the realm of law. We take pleasure in presenting this subject after a let-up for quite a few years. However, there is no pretension to digest all the case laws; we have limited our observations to footprints left behind by Supreme Court of India and the Madras High Court alone seen through the prism of the issues of the Madras Law Journal. Of the Madras High Court judgments, there is a deliberate restrictive ring that we have drawn for ourselves by treading mostly on Bench decisions of the High Court. The salutary rule of stare decisis is: ‘ What has once been settled by a precedent will not be ...