Over the past year, we’ve seen several instances where lawyers have faced pressure when they defended unpopular clients, either from the mass media or, worse, from lawyer associations. This...
Tales of link between terrorism and discrimination against Muslims abound, but few show this link to be so direct, so shameless. In the aftermath of the Bombay attacks, some 300 real estate agents in...
*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...
At a time when elections in five states have just been concluded and general elections are due to be held by May next year, PRS Legislative Research held its first Annual Conference on “Effective...
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 latest attacks have not produced many new ideas (I am guilty of this as well) on tackling terror (virtually none at all in the Indian media as far as I can tell) with most commentators repeating...
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...