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INTERVIEW-A Qualitative Research Method

Law reflects social values, attitudes and behaviours . Societal values and norms, therefore influence law directly or indirectly. Typically, before the law is framed, the legislators and their agencies meet all the stakeholders in the society, i.e. those who stand to directly benefit by the law, and frame the laws based on the inputs received from these social groups.In legal research, there is an increasing amount of interest in understanding the roles of various stakeholders like judges, lawyers and citizens play in shaping the legal and judicial system in a country. To advance the science of law, it is necessary for the researcher to go deep into the underlying principles or the need/effectiveness of the law.   Researcher will have to find answers for questions such as: why a particular rule? What were the societal conditions under which the rules were framed? What requirements are there to change? What are the effects of current law? Whether is it suited to current conditions