It gives me great pleasure to announce that Abhinav Chandrachud and Lawrence Liang have kindly agreed to join the LAOT team. Abhinav completed his LLB from Government Law College, Mumbai in 2008 and...
Update: See link to yesterday’s death penalty judgment below. Justice Sinha, arguably one of the most interesting judges on the Supreme Court today, retires on the 9th of August 2009. He has...
A few legal developments/opinions worth noting: 1. Human Rights Watch released its report on August 4th, titled ‘Broken System: Dysfunction, Abuse and Impunity in the Indian Police‘. The...
The Law Minister, in apparent agreement with the Delhi High Court’s verdict in Naz Foundation, has remarked that: We have a Constitution, many a times the Constitution runs parallel to many...
Readers who read Justice Verma’s take on the Naz Foundation case will also be interested in a historical connection going back almost a decade. The NAZ case was born out of the NHRC rejecting a...
In this Telegraph piece, I have argued that given the innovations under Article 15 in Naz Foundation, all vulnerable groups now have unprecedented protection under law, and therefore all minorities...
It is my pleasure to post on behalf of Shivprasad Swaminathan [LLB (ILS , Pune) B.C.L (Oxford)]. He is a Doctoral Student studying jurisprudence at Balliol College , Oxford. He is working on The...
The Delhi High Court has read down s. 377 to exclude consensual sex between adults in private in its judgment in Naz Foundation v. Union of India (2009). Aspects of the case will surely be discussed...
Vinay Sitapati and Manoj Mitta have done interesting pieces on rape laws. Mitta discusses Shiney Ahuja’s case in light of the developments of the law on rape since the infamous Mathura case...
The Delhi High Court’s website lists Naz Foundation v. Union of India (challenging the constitutional validity of s. 377 and demanding its reading down) for delivery of judgment tomorrow...