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Who of the following regard the Supreme Court of India as having a dual personality - a legal…

Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan, in their chapter “The Supreme Court” in Rethinking Public Institutions in India (edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan…

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Who of the following regard the Supreme Court of India as having a dual personality - a legal institution and a public institution ?

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Madhav Khosla and Ananth Padmanabhan, in their chapter “The Supreme Court” in Rethinking Public Institutions in India (edited by Devesh Kapur, Pratap Bhanu Mehta, and Milan Vaishnav, 2017), characterize the Supreme Court of India as possessing a “dual personality”—functioning simultaneously as a formal legal institution adjudicating disputes and as a visible public institution responsive to broader governance expectations.

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