(Guest Post by Chintan Chandrachud) The doctrine of substantive legitimate expectations is a fairly new addition to the ‘armoury of courts in ensuring that discretions are exercised fairly’. It enables litigants, even in the absence …
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Legitimate Expectations
Shamnad’s last post briefly mentioned ‘legitimate expectations’, an important area of administrative law that does tends not to get much attention in Indian academic writing. I think the ruling precedent in this regard is still …
Continue readingUnenforced legislations – reconsidering AK Roy
In a recent post on a related matter, I mentioned the judgment in AK Roy: ‘In AK Roy v Union of India the duly enacted 44th Constitution Amendment Act 1978 provided that it shall come …
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