The Delhi High Court’s judgment has significant dimensions, and will be debated in the coming days. For the moment, I am just giving the link to help co-bloggers to reflect on this judgment...
The Union Home Minister, Shivraj Patil has been the butt of criticism in the media for his handling of the J&K crisis. Much of the criticism, it appeared to me, was without substance. This...
Has Ashoka Thakur buried the concept of stict scrutiny in Indian jurisprudence? In this recent article published by the Journal of the Indian Law Intitute, I argue that it is a good idea that may yet...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of A.Chowgule and Co.Ltd. vs. Goa Foundation &Ors delivered on August 18th by Justices Tarun Chatterjee and Harjit Singh Bedi is truly landmark...
The Centre has reportedly said that it is not responsible for the delay in the execution of the convict in the Parliament attack case, Afzal Guru. But this contradicts the Secretary to former...
The matter relating to lifting of Maharashtra Government’s ban on James Laine’s book, Shivaji came up for hearing before Justices Arijit Pasayat and Mukundakam Sharma today, and has been...
The study of PILs in the Supreme Court should indeed be fascinating. To look for guidelines on which cases get admitted and which do not (at least in Justice M.Katju’s court) would be an...
This year’s Rosalind Wilson Memorial Lecture was delivered at IIC, New Delhi, by Justice B.N.Srikrishna. IIC’s website has this review by Anjali Ghate, which also invites comments and...
A very interesting article in the Outlook claims that the Official Secrets Act, 1923 was never notified in the Official Gazette and is therefore not law. To quote: ‘Here’s the untold...
Comments to my earlier post provoked me to research the subject for a better understanding of conventions on Indian Speaker. The Supreme Court in the Supreme Court Advocates-on-record Association vs...
Independence Day has occasioned two insightful comments in today’s papers. The Hindu carries Mr.Harish Khare’s Manmohan’s Task while the Indian Express carries an edit on A Pilot...
Justice Thomas Committee on damage to public property, which is due to submit its report to the Supreme Court on the 31st of August, 2008, was instituted lasy year in the aftermath of the violence...
I have long been intrigued why some States have been pressing the Centre to clear their Bills intended to control organised crime, even though they wish to use the law against terrorism. I have had...