The Code of Criminal Procedure (Amendment) Act 2008 has come under much criticism. Having received presidential assent, it only needs notification by the government to be enforced. At the heart of...
That judges are not well paid is a commonly aired grievance and was cited as the reason for the recent hike in judges’ salaries approved by the Union Cabinet. A similar complaint has been repeatedly...
The theme for the January 2009 issue of Halsbury’s Law Monthly is Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and Globalisation. The issue carries two articles that generally deal with FDI and three that...
It has often been commented that the Chief Justice of India is a remarkably powerful position within the Indian judiciary, and more powerful than most executive justices in courts in other countries...
In a previous post I discussed some research I had done where I found in the last ten years the Chief Justice had never been in dissent in a five judge bench or above. I suggested that this may be...
DEMOCRACY AND CONSTITUTIONALISM IN INDIA: A STUDY OF THE BASIC STRUCTURE DOCTRINE.BY Sudhir Krishnaswamy. OUP, Rs.625, pp.244. This very significant book, released during the LASSNET Conference in...
The following guest post is from Sushant Sinha – a student at the University of Michigan and the force behind the searchable legal databases website Indian Kanoon. Our blog has previously...
[I am pleased to introduce Vinay Sitapati , a promising and dynamic journalist with Indian Express, New Delhi, with keen interest in reporting and exploring legal aspects of contemporary issues. I...
Dr. Rajeev Dhavan, senior advocate and noted legal scholar, has released a new book on free speech in India titled “Publish and be Damned: Censorship and Intolerance in India” (Tulika...
The concept of enemy alien began to intrigue me ever since I attempted to write this article. Therefore, I tried to find its basis in our Constituent Assembly Debates (link introduced on the left)...