Remembering Justice P.B. Sawant: The Last of the Creative Judges Justice Sawant was a rare judge who had strong political convictions, and yet is remembered for his impartial judgments. Justice P.B. Sawant. Photo: Twitter/@Devinder_Sharma Law15/Feb/2021 Eminent legal academic, the late S.P. Sathe once described the judges in India as products of a legal education that emphasises what the law is, rather than the process by which it is continuously developed. Law is depicted through rote learning as a body of fixed and immutable rules, rather than something that, in the hands of a creative judiciary, always has evolutionary potential, he had observed. Â