A vote of confidence in our Supreme Court from an unlikely source.
I am posting a response from Pratap Bhanu Mehta to V. Venkatesan’s post on Mehta’s op-ed in the Indian Express. It seems to me that Venkatesan’s otherwise helpful post slightly...
Prashanth Bhushan, a leading member of the Supreme Court bar, has requested us to highlight a seminar that will take place in New Delhi on March 10 and March 11. The seminar will take place at the...
I am very pleased to welcome V. Venkatesan to our blog. Mr. Venkatesan is a long-standing and well-known commentator on legal and judicial developments in India. He writes a widely read column in...
This story on judicial appointments from the Hindu is amazing. Who is their source? I can’t comment on this further because of professional constraints. But, perhaps, others on this blog will...
An interesting and thoughtful piece by the Union Law Secretary, who was the driving force behind computerising the Law Commission.
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Here is a link to our comparative constitutional law conference in November.
I found this statement today in P.L. Lakhanpal v. Union of India (AIR 1972 Del.), a judgment by Justice V.S. Deshpande. Does this mean that the expansive view of Article 21 predates Menaka? If that...
Check out TDSAT’s cool new website: The Tribunal has been posting all its judgments online for some time. But it has also been putting out its orders recently. All this transparency should spur...
I never had the opportunity of reading Ram Jawaya Kapoor v. State of Punjab, AIR 1955 SC 549, in law school. Recently, I had to look at it for one section of my book, and I realized how important...