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Month: January 2009

CEC’s recommendation to remove Election Commissioner, Navin Chawla

On January 31, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

N.Ram’s scoop in The Hindu today has stirred up an interesting controversy,(and perhaps agonising as well, in view of its timing) and is likely to dominate public discourse in the coming days. The purpose of …

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Pratap Mehta’s talk “On the Nature and Limits of Judicial Authority”

On January 30, 2009 By Namita Wahi In Uncategorized

At the first plenary session of the recently concluded LASSNET conference in New Delhi, Dr. Pratap Bhanu Mehta, President, Centre for Policy Research, New Delhi, gave an insightful talk about the “rule of law” and …

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Prime Minister’s absence: Who is in control?

On January 30, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Even as it appears our debate on this issue is fast turning out to be academic, it refuses to die down. Read this story from Telegraph for an insight into how India was governed (or …

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Free Speech v. Public Health

On January 29, 2009 By Madhav Khosla In Uncategorized

Last week, Tarunabh posted details of two new free speech orders that had been passed. In one of the orders, the judgment of which can be found here, the Delhi High Court struck down the …

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Mr.John Yoo’s friends in India

On January 29, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Mr.John Yoo, known for his work during 2001-03 in the U.S.Justice Department’s Office of Legal Counsel, might have found himself out of favour with the new administration, after the inauguration of President Barrack Obama. Yoo …

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PRS Conference on Effective Legislatures

On January 28, 2009 By Namita Wahi In Uncategorized

In previous posts on this blog available here and here, I summarised the panel discussions at the PRS Conference on Effective Legislatures held at New Delhi, on December 5th, 2008. The discussion papers circulated at …

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Guest Post: Manoj Mitta replies

On January 28, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

[I feel privileged to introduce Manoj Mitta to our readers. A senior editor with the Times of India, New Delhi, he holds the distinction of having broken the highest number of legal stories in the …

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A Response To Salil Tripathi’s Analysis on Modi’s Record

On January 27, 2009 By Dilip Rao In Uncategorized

V.Anantha Nageswaran has a post on Acorn that offers counterarguments in response to Salil Tripathi’s article in Livemint (also read Tripathi’s response to a person ‘D’ in the comments section where he provides additional details …

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Right against terror

On January 27, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

In this lucidly written piece, Abhinav Chandrachud, perhaps nurtures undue expectation from Soli Sorabjee’s writ petition in the Supreme Court against terror.(W.P.[c]591 of 2008). His view that the outcome of this case will influence the …

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Corporate fraud and the law

On January 27, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

There is much to be said in favour of creating an effective legal and regulatory environment to prevent and prosecute corporate frauds. In the latest Frontline, I have focussed on the limitations of Serious Fraud …

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