It is well settled in law that a decision of the court is only ...

Court Emphasizes Case-Specific Decisions, Warns Against Over-Reliance on Precedents Without Fact Alignment.

January 27, 2021

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It is well settled in law that a decision of the court is only an authority for what it decides and not what can logically be deduced therefrom. It cannot be quoted for a proposition that may seem to follow logically from it and such a mode of reasoning assumes that law is necessarily a logical code, whereas it must be acknowledged that law is not always logical. It is equally well settled legal position, that court should not place reliance on a decision without discussing as to how the factual situation fits in with the fact situation of the decision, on which reliance is placed - the revisional authority could not have concluded in the fact situation of the case that the tribunal has failed to decide or has decided erroneously any question of law. - HC

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