Guest Post by Venkat Iyer To say that there has been an alarming fall in the standards of competence and integrity among judges in India in recent decades would, as an exercise in understatement, be …
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Taking Sexuality Seriously: The Supreme Court and the Koushal Case – Part II
I ended my earlier post asking the Court to review de-novo the jurisdictional basis for the Koushal appellants to maintain their case. In this post, I will go further and look at the text of the opinion …
Continue readingThe Jurisprudence of Constitutional Structures
Chief Justice of India, Justice S.H.Kapadia gave an interesting lecture on the subject at IIC recently. The webcast of the lecture is available here. In his speech, the CJI alluded to the Supreme Court’s judgment …
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