NOTES AND REFERENCES‌

1. Balancing the Scales of Justice - Financing Public Interest Law in America (A Report by the Council for Public Interest Law) 1976, pp. 6-7.

2. Janata Dal v. H.S. Chowdhary, 1992.

3. Guruvayur Devaswom Managing Committee v. C.K. Rajan, 2003.

4. The principle that when a matter has been finally adjudicated upon by a court of competent jurisdiction it may not be reopened or challenged by the original parties or their successors in interest. Its justification is the need for finality in litigation. Oxford Dictionary of Law, Eighth Edition, 2015, p. 537.

5. BALCO Employees Union v. Union of India, 2002.

6. State of Uttaranchal v. Balwant Singh Chaupal, 2010.