Legal Articles Doctrine of ‘Per Incuriam’: Critical Analysis based on Precedents November 12, 2016 by Shivam Goel | Leave a Comment Meaning: According to the Black’s Law Dictionary (Fourth Edition, 1891) per incuriam means through inadvertence. The word ‘incuria’ literally means ‘carelessness’.1 The purport of the doctrine of per incuriam is that, a decision should be treated as given per incuriam when it is given in ignorance of the terms of a statute, or of a […] Read more » Critical Analysis based on Precedents Doctrine of ‘per incuriam’ and Judicial Discipline Doctrine of Per Incuriam Judicial Discipline: Per Incuriam through want of care
