*Manoj Mitta on why absence of extradition is no hindrance to hand over suspects to India by Pakistan. Interestingly, the CJI has said there is no clear legal basis for international cooperation in...
1.K.Krishna Murthy v. Union of India 2.Bhim Singh v. Union of India: (W.P.[C]21 of 1999): Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) under challenge. 3.Economic Transport...
1. Lord Bingham’s 2008 Grotius Lecture at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on Nov.17 and Arvind Sivaramakrishnan’s article in The Hindu on Judicial Compensation...
Under Section 123 of Representation of People Act, 1951, any gift, offer or promise by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent of any...
Former Attorney General, Soli Sorabjee has chosen the PIL route to seek urgent measures to improve our counter-terrorism capabilities. (This report says he is probably the first former law officer to...
Halsbury’s Law’s December issue is on many facets of Human rights. Contributors and interviewees include Justices Srikrishna,(historical and contemporary overview) J.S.Verma, and Sujata...
The Foundation for Media Professionals (FMP), New Delhi, is organising a two-hour debate on the media’s coverage of terror, in the context of the recent Mumbai attacks. “Who is to blame...
Over at the legal developments blog, there is a good academic discussion – missed in the mainstream media – on how and whether India can establish the link between the terrorists involved...
The Mumbai attacks have provoked a mixed response, ranging from jingoistic knee-jerk reactions to sober analysis based on facts and reasoning. As our blog is better known for the latter, it was...
I am glad to post here the lecture delivered by the former Chief Justice of India, Justice J.S.Verma recently at Patna. Justice Verma, the author of the Supreme Court’s Judgment in the Second...