The Age of Enlightenment in Europe triggered scientific discoveries and technological innovations. Science and technology became yardsticks for progress in the world. This led to industrialization and the subsequent commodification of humankind. The intellectual life became privileged over the emotional and intuitive life; human relations degenerated so much that even families grew apart from themselves. Writers like D.H. Lawrence felt the need to draw our attention to the havoc being wreaked on human relations. This he achieves through the text, Lady Chatterley’s Lover, which was adjudged by the law as pornographic and was, therefore, banned. The objective of this text is to examine aspects of the narrative as lawyers or judges would examine cases to see how the story yielded to obscenity to warrant it being banned and later unbanned. It is hoped that this study would help in further understanding the relationship between law and literature as well as literature in law.