When it is determined that a court has authority, the next question to be asked is whether the

conflict is characterised by the laws of private international law and whether the rules of law are to
be chosen. It is also erroneously seen that after this is finished, the role of the judge has come to a
logical end after completion of the characterisation, and little more remains to be done except
applying the rule chosen. The judge would have followed British law in that respect if it had been
English law that is the law chosen, and he would have taken equal steps if it had been Indian law
that was the law chosen.