A joint venture between The Kapila Hingorani Foundation and the prestigious Pegasus Scholarship Trust, the Kapila Hingorani Foundation Pegasus Scholarship aims to provide young lawyers in...
GUEST POST BY VENKATESH NAYAK Readers will remember that one of the major decisions that the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) Government took during the first week of its assumption of power in May...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in the section 66-A case was striking to me for one particular reason. Indian courts have long held that the judgments of American courts can’t reliably be used as...
The Supreme Court’s judgment in Shreya Singhal case has been widely hailed. The title of this post is drawn from one such commentary carried in Telegraph, which also exposes the players...
Jay Sayta is a final year law student at the National University of Juridical Sciences Kolkata and runs GLaws.in; India’s first and only website on gaming laws. Jay started GLaws.in in 2010 as...
At the conclusion of the last hearing on February 13, Justice Mukhopadhaya was heard saying ‘We will provide justice to both, but relief to one’. This would have made some...
Teesta Setalvad’s appeal against the rejection of her application for anticipatory bail by the Gujarat High Court is coming up before a Bench of the Supreme Court, other than the one which...
The review petition filed by the death row convict, Sonu Sardar against his death sentence in the Supreme Court was dismissed on February 10 after a day-long hearing. The brief order uploaded...
The Justices of the Constitutional Court of South Africa are pleased to invite applications from outstanding recent law graduates and young lawyers interested in serving as foreign law clerks. ...
I recently wrote a blog post for the Rule of Law Project at DAKSH, on the state of judicial statistics in India. The post highlights concerns with data collection methodologies within the judicial...
Guest Post by Shreyas Jayasimha, Advocate, Karnataka High Court Karnataka (India) Section of the International Commission of Jurists are delighted to invite you to a seminar on Independence of...
Teesta Atul Setalvad v State of Gujarat may well be a test case to decide whether the State’s eagerness for custodial interrogation of an accused has to be given primacy over the...