4.1 The Writ's Choice (When the Supreme/High Court?)

The writ jurisdiction's base (LAW 304's companion): the extraordinary remedy for the fundamental right's violation and the jurisdictional illegality — Article 133's frame (the Constitution's own text studied there). The five writs and their fits: habeas corpus (the detention's challenge — the production's order); mandamus (the public duty's command); certiorari (the lower decision's quashing); prohibition (the excess's stop, before it completes); quo warranto (the office- holder's title challenge). The alternative-remedy rule: the writ is extraordinary — the efficacious statutory remedy first (the exceptions: the fundamental right's direct violation, the urgency, the remedy's absence or futility); the PIL's face: the public-interest relaxation of standing (the public-spirited petitioner; the affected-class's representative). The drafter's first advice: writ or appeal? — the statutory appeal where it exists, the writ where the right or the jurisdiction demands it.