(Guest Post by Rahul Bajaj) On Wednesday, after much anticipation, a single judge of the Delhi High Court delivered her verdict in the bail application filed by Kanhaiya Kumar, the President of the JNU Student …
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The Fictitious Doctrine of Substantive Legitimate Expectations
(Guest Post by Chintan Chandrachud) The doctrine of substantive legitimate expectations is a fairly new addition to the ‘armoury of courts in ensuring that discretions are exercised fairly’. It enables litigants, even in the absence …
Continue readingAn Empirical Study of the Supreme Court
(Guest Post by Alok Prasanna) The Supreme Court of India today is a very different creature from what it was when it was set up in 1950. From being envisaged initially as an apex constitutional …
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