The amendments to the Code of Criminal Procedure passed by Parliament in the just-concluded session have not received the attention they deserve. A quick read seems to indicate the following, among...
In a recent interview, the CJI said, with regard to poor representation of women in Higher Judiciary: “We have to look for talent and not equal representation for gender, caste or creed,”...
Writing in yesterday’s issue of the Hindustan Times, Ajit Doval, a former Director of the Intelligence Bureau, shares his thoughts on the Mumbai attacks. His views, perhaps in keeping with those of...
I don’t usually dabble in jurisprudence for, unlike our other blogger-scholars, I’m just a word-smith like most ordinary lawyers. Yet, I find it increasingly hard to resist legal theory...
On December 18, Indian media made too much of the fact that Lord Swaraj Paul presided over the session of the House of Lords, which incidentally debated cricket and Mumbai 2008. Here is the link to...
Professor Martha Nussbaum, Ernst Freund Distinguished Service Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago, delivered the Second Foundation Lecture organised by the Institute for Human...
The recent Parliamentary initiative to strengthen the domestic anti-terrorism legal regime in the aftermath of the Mumbai attacks is justifiably attracting extensive commentary and analysis in the...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of Shanti Bhushan vs. Union of India has been delivered. My earlier post tried to sum up the arguments in the case. The core issue in this case, to...
Recent results of the state assembly elections led most observers to conclude that terrorism can hardly be an election issue and that it was wrong to expect that the Mumbai mayhem, coming close on...
Ashok Mitra says that VP Singh, in passing away on November 27 might have chosen ‘the worst possible day … to take his bow, with the nation in the grip of the trauma of global terror. On...
The second panel at the recently concluded PRS Conference examined “Parameters for Measuring the Effectiveness of Legislative Bodies”. Having worked on the discussion paper for this conference...
The issue of torture and custodial interrogations have been discussed previously on this blog. In an article in today’s Indian Express titled ‘The Kasab Contradiction’, Vinay...
The Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Amendment Bill, 2008 seeks to extend the maximum number of days a suspect can be detained for interrogation to 180 days, if it is not possible to complete the...