Law and Other Things

My first post for this blog was about Indian judges who had previously served in state and Central legislatures. At that time, I noted that ‘despite the fact that no Supreme Court judge appointed since Baharul Islam has held parliamentary office prior to their judicial service (to the best of my knowledge), this has not…

(A guest post by Eugene R. Fidell) [Eugene R. Fidell teaches Military Justice at Yale Law School and edits the Global Military Justice Reform blog, globalmjreform.blogspot.com. His book, Military Justice: A Very Short Introduction, was published in 2016 by the Oxford University Press. He served as a judge advocate in the U.S. Coast Guard.] —————…

Guest Post by Thriyambak J. Kannan The Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 (“the Act”), pursuant to the recommendations of the 246th Law Commission Report (“Report”) underwent a series of amendments to rectify what the Commission was informed as, “several inadequacies observed in the functioning of the Act”.[1] Pursuant to these recommendations, the Act was amended by…

Guest post by Ahmed Pathan (an intern at DAKSH and a soon to graduate engineering student with an interest in data science). This piece was first posted on the DAKSH Blog. Early hearing of a case gives confidence to the plaintiff in the justice system who thinks his/her rights are being violated. An analysis done…

(by Cameron Miles and Surabhi Ranganathan) Cameron Miles is a barrister of Gray’s Inn and a barrister and solicitor of the Supreme Court of Victoria and the High Court of Australia. He is a practicing public international lawyer and a member of 3 Verulam Buildings in London. He is the author of Provisional Measures before…

(by Nishant Gokhale and Rahul Raman. The authors are Associates at the Centre on the Death Penalty, National Law University, Delhi.) The Supreme Court’s recent decision in Mukesh & Anr. v. State of NCT of Delhi & Ors.[1] (Delhi December 16 gangrape case) is an important judgment which is likely to form the basis for…

I have written a short piece on the DAKSH Blog asking why despite many Supreme Court orders and directions over the last 40 years, nothing much has changed in our criminal justice system. I argue that no effort has been made to build capacity, particularly on the administrative side, to give the subordinate judiciary a chance…

–Guest post by Dhruva Gandhi, IV Year student, National Law School of India University, Bangalore The introduction of the Goods and Services Tax (GST) is widely hailed as an important taxation law reform in India. This reform measure seeks to subsume the multiplicity of taxes prevalent at both the Central as well as the State…