Important Legal Definitions
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Concurring Opinion
Judicial Orders, Injunctions & Precedents
Definition
An opinion written by a judge who agrees with the ultimate conclusion and decree of the majority, but arrives at that result using different legal reasoning, principles, or rationale.
Example
In Justice K.S. Puttaswamy (Retd.) v. Union of India, all nine judges unanimously agreed that privacy is a Fundamental Right, with several judges authoring separate concurring opinions exploring informational privacy, spatial privacy, and bodily autonomy.