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Month: May 2017

The Rocky Road of Military Justice: Pakistan, India and Beyond

On May 23, 2017 By Guest In Uncategorized

(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 …

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Appointment of Independent Arbitrators Under the Amended Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996

On May 19, 2017 By Guest In Uncategorized

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 …

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Does early hearing mean early disposal?

On May 19, 2017 By Harish Narsappa In Uncategorized

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 …

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Some Thoughts on the Jadhav Case: Jurisdiction, Merits, and the Effect of a Presidential Communication

On May 12, 2017 By Guest In Uncategorized

(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 …

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Death Penalty Sentencing: The Supreme Court as the First and Final Arbiter of Facts

On May 10, 2017 By Guest In Uncategorized

(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 …

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So many orders, but not much change

On May 8, 2017 By Harish Narsappa In Uncategorized

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 …

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Is the compensation clause in India’s GST Constitution Amendment act unconstitutional?

On May 2, 2017 By Guest In Uncategorized

–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. …

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