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Tag: Indian Parliament

Pre-legislative Scrutiny: Comparative Lessons

On May 19, 2011 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

The debate on how we make laws has intensified in light of the disagreements on the Jan Lokpal Bill. Shamnad made an important point earlier on this blog that there is a democratic deficit in …

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Hazare and the Potential Curing of a Democratic Deficit?

On April 19, 2011 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

Tarunabh captured some of the reactions to the Anna Hazare campaign in his post here, where he also warned that the problem of corruption is a complex multi-factorial issue, not easily amenable to ready solutions …

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Parliamentary Reform

On September 1, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

For those who followed this previous post, the Rajya Sabha has sent the Prevention of Torture Bill to a Select Committee for further examination (see Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s piece in the Indian Express today on …

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Alternative Thinking Outside the “Law Firm” Box?

On July 21, 2010 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

Many of us have lamented the fact that although the “national law schools” have churned out very gifted lawyers, we’ve lost many of them to law firms. It is but natural that many of them …

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NAC-II: Why we must oppose it, and what is the alternative

On April 15, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

The National Advisory Council is being reconstituted. Its previous avatar saw a vigorous debate on its constitutional illegitimacy, one that is completely absent this time around. There is a sense that NAC-I did good things …

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Legislating Rights: Parliament, Courts and Separation of Powers

On April 13, 2010 By Tarunabh Khaitan In Uncategorized

In an interesting column in the Indian Express, Mihir Sharma ponders over ‘The Four Rights that millennial India has promised its people — to information, to food, to education, and to (rural) employment’ and notes …

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From Frontline’s latest issue….

On January 27, 2010 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

1. My article on the challenges to Supreme Court’s opaque functioning & why the Supreme Court Collegium is wrong in asking the Government to keep the Dinakaran recommendation in abeyance. 2. Nick Robinson’s survey of …

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India’s Under-Resourced MPs

On September 3, 2009 By Nick Robinson In Uncategorized

In yesterday’s Indian Express I had this piece highlighting that the average MP has no office or staff, beyond a single secretary, and arguing that MPs need to get sufficient resources if we expect them …

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Rajya Sabha debate on Judges’ Salaries Bill

On February 25, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

The debate in Rajya Sabha on the Bill to increase the Judges’ salaries is, like the Lok Sabha debate earlier, equally noteworthy. Arun Jaitly, a former Law Minister, used the occasion to reflect on the …

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Parliament’s debate on judiciary

On February 19, 2009 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

I was lucky to watch the debate in Lok Sabha yesterday on the Bill (on the Lok Sabha channel) to increase the Judges’ salaries. Though the attendance in the House was thin, the House did …

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