precedent when not binding

Dear Dr,

Any court is competent to ignore obnoxious precedent.The doctrine of precedent means if reported it may be cited and followed by the Court. But there is a power in the judges to set right their own mistakes. The judges of one high court may refuse to follow a decision of another high court and the supreme court may overrule a decision of a high court. Both the high court and the supreme court may refuse to follow their own previous decision by construing a larger bench.

 A precedent lose its binding force if:-

1.     a statutory rule or statue is inconsistent with its subsequently enacted;

2.     it is reversed or overruled by a higher court;

3.     it is reversed on a different ground;

4.     it is a decision per in curiam;

5.     it was rendered in ignorance of a statue;

6.     a precedent passed sub silentio

 Those are some illustrative grounds on which precedent can be ignored by the courts.

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