So, Taslima Nasreen’s visa has been generously extended for six more months. I will try to present certain legal issues that her stay in India present. Although one can go further back in...
Today’s Times of India has carried a news item speculating the possible outcome of India’s appeal against Mike Procter’s verdict on Harbhajan Singh. The report says Indian legal...
Today, our blog has recorded a landmark number of visits by our readers -796 on the previous day (see the hit counter on the left). Whether it is a transcient phenomenon, one doesn’t know. But...
Along with Prashant Reddy (who blogs me with me at SpicyIP), I just finished a paper analysing the Madras High Court judgment in the Novartis case. We focus in particular on the TRIPS compatibility...
Before getting to the substance of this post, I want to join Vikram and V. Venkatesan in welcoming our new contributors. The success of this blog depends on regular contributors and commentators (and...
The three-match ban on Harbhajan Singh by Match Referree Mike Procter, invited intense scrutiny and criticism in the media, without I understand, access to the full text of Procter’s decision...
A vibrant computer science student at the Univ of Michigan, Sushant, recently launched “Indian Kanoon”, a fabulous online resource for Indian judgments. This valuable research tool will...
Guest Blogger: Harish Damodaran Harish Damodaran is a journalist who has worked for more than 16 years as a reporter and editorial analyst with the Press Trust of India and The Hindu Business Line...
As a relative new-comer to the Indian legal system, I would be curious to get people’s thoughts on the Supreme Court’s filing rules (or lack of them). There are a lot of directions this conversation...
The Supreme Court’s reversal of its own order refusing to vacate the stay on the holding of the traditional village sport in Tamil Nadu, Jallikattu has caused quite a consternation. (Animal...
Is the Supreme court finally willing to look at the substance of a relationship, beyond the satisfaction of formal requirements? In a judgment delivered yesterday, the Court seems to have held that a...
Today’s Hindu carried a news item about a SC decision delivered by a three-judge bench on the need for a patient’s informed consent before the doctor embarks on a surgical procedure. The report...
Is anyone aware of any searchable online database of Indian law journals? I searched for the websites of Journal of Indian Law Institute and Indian Bar Review (well, the former had more like a...