1. Minimum Wages Act 1948

SEVENTHSEMESTER

LabourLawII

1. Minimum Wages Act 1948

a. Historical basis of Minimumwages Act

b. Definition of employer and employee

c. Definition ofwages,distinguishitwithIndustrial Disputes Act, Workmen’s Compensation

Act, Payment of WagesAct. d. Various concepts of Wages

e. Procedure for fixingandrevisingof minimumwages f.The authorities appointedunder theAct

g. Themode ofpayment ofminimum rates ofwages h. Calims and procedures forpresentingcalims

2. Payment of Wages Act 1936

a. Definition ofwages

b. Responsibilityforpayment of wages , fixation, time and manner of payment c. Deductions allowed under theAct , theidea and the conditions

d. Specific deductions and themannerand extent

e. Power ofthe inspector and facilities to be affordedto theinspector. f.Authorities under theAct

3. Employees’ CompensationAct 1923

a. Scope, object of theAct

b. Liabilityof the employerto paycompensation ,right of workmen to receive compensation conditions

Personal injury–accident-occupational disease –arisingout ofand in thecourseof employment

–notional extension– doctrineof added peril--meaning and kinds of disablement-dependent –

meaningof workmenand wages --Defenses for employer c. Scheme and rate ofcompensation-

d. Scheme ofdistribution of compensation

e. Appointment and qualifications of commissionerunder WC Act , powers and functions of commissioner.

4. Employees StateInsuranceAct 1948

a. Object , application, seasonal factory

b. Definitions—dependent,employment injury, employee, manufacturingprocess, employer

c. ESICorporation- constitution, powers, standing committee, medical benefit council, officers

,powers , duties

d. ESIfunds , payment of contribution

e. Benefits underthe Act—Sickness ,meternity, medical , disablement , dependents, funeral benefits

f.Adjudication ofdisputes

RecommendedBooks

Srivastava S.C. ---SocialSecurity

Mallik–IndustrialLaw

MishraS.N. -----LabourLaw N.D.Kapoor---IndustrialLaw S.K.Puri—LabourandIndustrialLaw K.M .Pillai---Labour andIndustrialLaw

LAW OFEVIDENCE

1. Introduction:

Definition, kinds of evidence,Fact, Facts in issue, proved, not proved, disproved, relevant.

2. Presumptions: kinds of Presumptions

3. RelevancyofFacts:

Section 5 to 16, Admissions and Confessions, Statements bypersons whocannot be called as witnesses Statements madeunder Special circumstances,Facts of publicnature, Relevancyof judgements, Opinion ofthird persons whenrelevant, Characterwhen relevant.

4. Proof:

Facts which need not beproved.

5. Modes ofproof

Reasons forthe Growth,Structure and Procedure ofAdjudicatoryBodies,Kinds of Tribunals

6. DocumentaryEvidence:presumption ofdocuments

7. Exclusion oforal bydocumentaryevidence

8. Ambiguous documents

9. Burden of Proof

10.Estoppel

11.Witness

12.Privileged Communications

13.Examination ofwitness

14.Improper admission orrejection of evidence

BOOKSRECOMMENDED

1. RatanLalDheerajLal:Law of Evidence

2. Avtar Singh: Principles ofLaw ofEvidence

3. Krishnamachari:Law of Evidence

4. Sarcar:Law of Evidence

ADMINISTRATIVE LAW

1. Introduction:

Definition, Natureand scopeof administrativelaw, reasons for thegrowth of administrativelaw, ruleof law in England America andIndia, separation of powers and development in theunited stats andIndia

2. Delegated legislation:

Development, restrainton delegation, Control over delegated legislation: Judicial control, LegislativeControl, Parliamentarycontrol

3. Classification ofAdministrativeAction:

Legislative, Judicial, Quasi judicial and AdministrativeActions

4. Principles of Natural Justice:

a. Rule againstBias, KindsofBias

b. Rule of FairHearing: Contents

c. Effect of failureof natural justice, Exceptions to thePrinciples of natural Justice

5. AdministrativeAdjudication:

Reasons forthe Growth,Structure and Procedure ofAdjudicatoryBodies,Kinds of Tribunals

6. AdministrativeDiscretion:

Failureto exercise discretion, Excess or Abuseofdiscretion

7. Judicial Control of AdministrativeAction:

a. PrerogativeRemedies,Laches anddelay, Resjudicata

b. Articles.136 and 226.

c. StatutoryJudicial Remedies: Civil Suits andAppeals

d. Equitable Remedies:Injunctions and DeclaratoryActions

8. Estoppel and Waiver:

Government promise andestoppel in U.S.A. and England, Promissoryestoppel inIndia

9. GovernmentLiability:

Government Contracts,Government TortuousLiability

10.Ombudsman and CentralvigilanceCommission

11.PublicUndertakings:

Reasons forthegrowth, Features, Control over Public undertakings

12.Government privileges inlegal proceedings

13.Official Secrets and Right toInformation

BOOKSRECOMMENDED

Minor Paper B – III : History

HistoryOfIndia A.D. 1760-1950 And World History

1) Expansion &Consolidation OfBritish Empire a) Concept OfMercantalism

b) Tools OfExpansion: War &DiplomacyWithBengal, Mysore, Marathas, CentralIndia, SubsidiaryAllianceDoctrineOfLapse

2) EconomicChanges

a) Land RevenueSettlements: Permanent Settlement RyotwariMahalwari ,Conditions Of

Peasants

b) Commercialization OfAgricultureIts Effects

c) DeclineOfCottageIndustryDe-Industrialization

3) Causes ForTheRise OfNationalism

a) RevoltOf1857-Causes,NatureConsequences

4) Socio-Religious ReformMovements

a) BrahmoSamaj, PrarthanaSamaj, AryaSamaj, Ramkrishna Mission, Theosophical Society b) MuslimReforms Movement

c) English Education: Mccaulay’s Minutes, Wood’sDispatch HunterCommission,Indian

UniversityAct 1904. d) Press

e) Status OfWomen

IINational Movement

A)EarlyAssociations, Foundation OfIndian National Congress :Moderates,Extremists& Revolutionaries

B) From 1905-1918: Partition OfBengal, SwadeshiBoycottMovements, Home RuleLeague, Growth OfCommunal Trends: MuslimLeague& Hindu Mahasabha.

C)EmergenceOfGandhi:Concepts Of Satyagraha,Non–Cooperation Movement, Simon

Commission,Civil DisobedienceMovement, Round Table Conference. D)Constitutional Development Upto 1919.

E) Government OfIndia Act 1935,Indian PolityFrom 1935-45, QuitIndia Movement, Wavell Plan, Ina.

F) Transfer Of Power: Cabinet Mission Plan-Mountbatten Plan –IndianIndependenceAct.

III:IndependenceAfter

a) Partition B)Issue Of PrincelyStates &IntegrationIntoIndiaC) MakingOfConstitution D) Foreign Policy

IV: Western World

a) RenaissanceReformation

b) BeginningOfColonialism

c) American Revolution (1776)

d) French Revolution (1789)

e) First World War, Russian Revolution (1917)

f)Rise Of Dictatorships

g) Second World War &Formation OfUno

h) Note: Theunits mentionedaboveincludeinternal assessment hours.

Suggested Reading

1) Desai, A.R: Social BackgroundOfIndianNationalism (Mumbai PopularPrakashan,1986)

2) BaylyC.A. :Indian SocietyTheMakingOfTheBritish Empire, TheNew CambridgeHistory

OfIndia, VolIi(Cup 2002)

3) Bipin ChandraEt At:India’s StruggleForIndependence, 1857-1947

4) DharmaKumarTapanRaychaudhari Ed: CambridgeEconomicHistoryOfIndia , VolIi

5) ParigrahiD.N. Ed: Economy, SocietyPoliticsIn ModernIndia (Delhi,Viakas 1985)

6) Rao M.S.A : Social MovementsInIndia VolI&VolIi (Delhi, Manohar 1978)

7) Sarkar, Sumit: ModernIndia1885-1947 (Delhi,Macmillan, 1985)

8) TaraChand: HistoryOfThe Freedom MovementInIndia4 Vols. (NewDelhi, Govt. OfIndia

1983)

9) ChopraP.N Et Al:A Social, Cultural &EconomicHistoryOfIndia, 3 Vols,(Delhi, Macmillan,

1979)

10) Forest G.W: A HistoryOfIndian Mutiny1857-1858 3 Vols (NewDelhiAsian Educational

Services, 2006)

11) Majumdar, R.C (Ed)HistoryCultureOfIndian People, Vol 9-11, BhartiyaVidyaBhavan, Bombay

12) Majumdar R.C. Et Al : An AdvancedHistoryOfIndia, 4thEd New Delhi, Macmillan.2009

13) MukherjeeS.N HistoryOfEducationInIndia(Modern Period)Baroda,AcharyaBookDepot,

1966.

14) NarullaSNaik J.PHistoryOf EducationInIndiaDuringTheBritishPeriod (London 1943)

15) SenS.N. Eighteen FiftySeven(Delhi, MinistryOfInformation & Broadcasting1957)

16) Hal Fisher: A HistoryOf Europe2Vols (DelhiIndian Edition Surjeet,1981)

17) Chandra Biapn , HistoryOfModernIndia (New DelhiOrientBlackswan , Reprint, 2010)

18) Jones Kenneth W, Socio– Religious ReformMovementsIn BritishIndia (Cambridge, 1994)

19) PanikkarKn, Culture,Ideology,Hegemony:Intellectuals And Social ConsciousnessIn Colonial

India(New Delhi, Tulika, 1995)

20)Bandyopadhyay, Sekhar, From PlasseyTo Partition, A HistoryOfModernIndia (NewDelhi, OrientLongman 2004)

21) Bipan ChandraAndOthers,India AfterIndependence (New Delhi, VikingPenguinIndia, 1999)

22) SenSn, EuropeAndTheWorld 1789-1945, (S. Chand, New Delhi1998)

23) Phukan, Meenaxi,Rise Of TheModern West, Social And EconomicHistoryOf EarlyModern

Europe (Delhi, Macmillan, 19980

24) V.P. Dutt,India’s Foreign Policy(New Delhi, Vani EducationalBooks, 1984)

HUMANRIGHTS(OPTIONAL)

Theobjectives of thecourse areto prepare forresponsible citizenship withawareness of therelationship between Human Rights,democracyand development; to foster respect for international obligations for peace and development;to impart education on national and international regime ofHuman Rights;to sensitizestudents to human suffering and promotion of human lifewith dignity; to develop skills on human rights advocacyand to appreciatethe relationship between rights and duties andto foster respect for tolerance andcompassion for alllivingcreatures.

CourseContent:

Jurisprudenceof HumanRights.Nature, definition, origin and theories of human rights.

Universal protection ofhuman rights. -United Nations and human rights-UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights, 1948; International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, 1966; International Covenant Economic, Socialand CulturalRights, 1966

III

Regional Protection ofHuman rights-Eurpean system-Inter American System-African System

Protection ofhuman rights at national level.Human rights and theconstitution. TheProtection ofHuman rights Act, 1993.

Human Rights and Vulnerable Groups:Rights ofWomen, Children, Disabled, Tribals,Aged and

Minorities-National andInternationalLegal Developments.

Note: Theunits mentionedaboveincludeinternal assessment hours. SuggestedReadings:

1. Meron Theodor,Ed., Human RightsandInternationalLaw:Legal and Policy Issues, 2 Vols., Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983.

2. S.K.Kapoor,Human rights UnderInternationalLaw andIndianLaw.

3. HenkinLuis, Rights ofManToday,London: Stevens, 1978.

4. Singh Nagendra, Enforcement ofHuman RightsinPeaceand War and thefutureof humanity, Calcutta: EasternLaw House,1986.

5. RelevantInternationalInstruments.

6. United Nations Charter,1945.

7. UniversalDeclaration ofHuman Rights, 1948.

8. InternationalConvention on the Elimination ofAllForms ofRacialDiscrimination, 1948.

9. Internationalcovenant on civil and Political Rights, 1966.

10. Internationalcovenant on Economicand Cultural Rights, 1966.

11. Convention on Elimination of All forms of Discrimination AgainstWomen, 1979.

12. Convention on the Rights ofthe Child, 1989.

CHILD AND LAW (OPTIONAL)

1. Concept of Child Rights:TheunderlyingJurisprudence

- ‘Rights Theories’ and the ‘Child Rights’

1. Will Theoryof Rights

2.Interest TheoryofRights

3.LiberationistApproach to Child Rights

- Definition of ‘Child’: Age as a determiningfactor

2. Child rights in theInternational perspectivewith detailed referenceto

- Minimum AgeConvention, 1973

- Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989

3. Constitution of Indiaand Child Rights

-Children and Fundamental Rights (Art. 14, Art. 15(3), Art.21, Art. 21 A, Art.23, Art. 24, etc).

-DirectivePrinciples of State Policy(Article 39, 47, 41, 45, 46, etc)

-Fundamental Duties andChild Rights (Article 51 K)

4. Position of child under Family Law

- Childs Right to Maintenance, Education &Custody

- Guardianship ofa child

- AdoptionLaw and thechild

-Law ofLegitimacyof achild

-Law relatingtochild marriage

- Child rights under theLaw ofSuccession

5. Position of child underIndian Contract Act 1872

6.LabourLaws and the child

7. CriminalLawsand thechild

Relevant parts of

-Indian Penal Code1860

-Immoral Traffic(Prevention) Act 1956

-TheYoungPerson’s (Harmful Publications) Act1956

8. ProceduralLaws and theChild

-TheCriminal Procedure

-Law ofEvidence

9. JuvenileJustice

Detailed referenceto JuvenileJustice (CareandProtection ofChildren)Act 2000

10. Commissions forProtection ofChild Rights Act 2005.

11. GoaChildren’s Act 2003 &allied Acts and Rules.

RecommendedBooks:

1. S.N. Jained, Child and theLaw(1979)IndianLawInstitute, NewDelhi

5. S.C. Tripathy,Lawrelatingto Women &Children

6. Anjani Kant,Lawrelatingto Women &Children

7. MamtaRao,Law relatingto Women &Children

8. AgarwalAgarwal,Law relatingto WomenChildren

9. AshaBajpai:Child Rights inIndia:Law, Policyand Practice.