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The Law and The Lawyers


By : M. K. Gandhi

Compiled and Edited by : S. B. Kher

First Published : October 1962

Price : Rs. 40/-

ISBN 81-7229-051-9


Printed & Published by : Jitendra T. Desai
Navajivan Publishing House, Ahmedabad - 380 014, India


© Navajivan Trust, 1962

 


  Introduction

  Acknowledgement

  Preface to the Forth Edition

  To The Reader

SECTION I :  GANDHIJI AS A LAW STUDENT

  Preparation for England

  Preparation for the bar

  'Called' - But then?

 

SECTION II : GANDHIJI AS A LAWYER

  How I began life

  The First Case

  The First Shock

  Preparation for South Africa

  Arrival in Natal

  Some Experiences

  On the way to Pretoria

  First day in Pretoria

  Preparation for the case

  Man proposes, God disposes

  Settled in Natal

  Colour Bar

  Settled in Bombay?

  Some reminiscences of the bar

  Clients turned co-workers

  How a client was saved

SECTION III : THE TRIALS OF GANDHIJI

  Before the court in 1907

  Before the court in 1908

  Before the court in 1913

  Was it contempt of court?

  Contempt of court

  The Great Trial

SECTION IV : LAWYERS AND SATYAGRAHA

  Courts and Schools

  Lawyers and Non-co-operation

  The hallucination of law courts

  Cobblers v. Lawyers

  How many lawyers and students help

  Practising Lawyers

  A Protest

  Practising Lawyers

  About Lawyers

  The Satyagrahi Lawyers

  Mysore Lawyers

  Shri Dasappa's Case

  Babu Kalinath Roy

  Lala Radha Krishna's Case

  The Lahore Judgment

  Jagannath's Case

  Another Scandal

  Victims, Not guilty

  Dr. Satyapal's Case

  Lala Labhu Ram

  Gujaratimal's Case

  Labh Singh, M.A.L.L.B. (CANTAB), BAR-AT-LAW

  More Punjab Tragedies

  How not to do it?

  Fining the labourers

  The Amritsar Appeals

  The Punjab Sentences

  A Hard Case

  Lawyers' Duty

 

SECTION V : MISCELLANEOUS

  How to spiritualize the profession

  Birds of a feather (?)

  A Judge's indictment

  An Unjudicial Dictum

  Untruth in law courts

  Hindu Law and Mysore

  The Federal Court

  The Federal Court

  The place of the lawyers in a non-violent society

  An advocates dilemma

  5,000 miles away

  Justice from six thousand miles

  Navakal prosecution

  Aundh Constitution

  Civil v. Criminal

  Gandhiji's famous customs declaration

  Veiled Martial Law

 

APPENDICES

  Appendix I

  Appendix II

  Appendix III

  Appendix IV

  Appendix V

  Appendix VI

  Appendix VII

  Appendix VIII

  Glossary