Judge's Miscellany

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Description
Hidayatullah was born in 1905 in the well-known family of Khan Bahadur Hafiz Mohammed Wilayatullah, an upper class family. His grand father Munshi Kudartullah was advocate in Varanasi. His father was a poet of all-India repute who wrote poems in Urdu and probably it must have been from him that Justice Hidayatullah got his love for language and literature. Wilayatullah was Gold medallist of Aligarh Muslim University in 1897 besting famous mathematician Sir Ziauddin Ahmad, a favourite of Sir Syed Ahmed Khan. He served till 1928 in ICS and from 1929-33 as member of Central Legislative Assembly. Hidaytullah's elder brothers Mohammed Ikramullah (ICS, later Foreign Secretary, Pakistan) and Ahmedullah (ICS, retired as Chairman, Tariff Board) were scholars as well as sportsmen. He on the other hand excelled. in Urdu poetry. After completing primary education at the Government High School of Raipur in 1922, Hidayatullah attended Morris College in Nagpur, where he was nominated as the Phillip's Scholar in 1926. When he graduated in 1926, he was awarded the Malak Gold Medal. Following the trend of Indians studying British law abroad, Hidayatullah attended Trinity College at the University of Cambridge from 1927 to 1930 and obtained B.A. and M.A. Degrees from there. Here he secured the 2nd order of merit and was awarded a Gold Medal for his performance in 1930. He was called to the Bar from Lincoln's Inn when he was just 25 years old.
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Contents
SPEECHES ABROAD
I Philippine Constitution Day
II Law Day-Human Rights
III World Law Day
IV International Understanding
V Space Law
SPEECHES TO THE BAR
VI Law's Delays
VII Functioning of Democracy in India
VIII On the Relations Between the Centre and the States in India
MEMORIAL LECTURES
IX Judicial Methods
X The Keynote of the Constitution
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES
XI Justice Syed Mahmood
XII Mahatma Gandhi
XIII Guru Nanak Devji
XIV Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
XV Justice Vivian Bose
SPEECHES IN INDIA
XVI International Commercial Arbitrations
XVII Shakespeare: The Man and the Legend
XVIII Parliamentary Privilege-The Press and the Judiciary
CONVOCATIONAL ADDRESSES TO UNIVERSITIES
XIX University of the Philippines
XX Annamalai University
XXI Bangalore University
XXII Gujarat University
XXIII Agra University
XXIV Aligarh Muslim University.
MISCELLANEOUS
XXV On Release of Horizons of Freedom
XXVI Convention on the Constitution
XXVII Seminar on Indians Abroad: Asia and Africa
XXVIII Human Rights in Action in India
SOME BROADCASTS
XXIX The Rule of Law-The Judiciary
XXX Law and Education
XXXI Human Rights
XXXII Lawyers: Born or Made
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Author Details
M. Hidayatullah