We have to part company with the precedents of the British-Indian period tying our non-statutory area of law to vintage English Law christening it “justice, equity and good conscience”. After all, conscience is the finer texture of norms woven from the ethos and lifestyle of a community and since British and Indian ways of life vary so much that the validity of an Anglo-philic bias in Bharat’s justice, equity and good conscience is questionable today,