The Supreme Court’s [‘SC’] decision in Lok Prahari v. Union of India marks an important addition to electoral reform jurisprudence in India. In this case, the Court issued directions for the institution of a permanent …
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Tag: Right to Information
How the CIC missed the wood for the trees
The Right to Information Act, 2005, with its 31 sections and two schedules, is one of the outstanding legislations of Indian Parliament. In view of its inherent potential to ensure accountability of the institutions of …
Continue readingGuest Post: Composition of Information Commissions
Guest Post by Shibani Ghosh, Research Associate, Centre for Policy Research and former Legal Consultant to the CIC The Supreme Court’s judgment in Namit Sharma v Union of India with respect to the composition of Information …
Continue readingGuest Post: Bringing transparency and efficiency in Government functioning
The following is a guest post from Sushant Sinha, the person behind Indian Kanoon. ——————————————————————– While the Right to Information (RTI) Act empowers Indians to obtain anyinformation about government functioning, it is still mostly reactive …
Continue readingDelhi High Court RTI judgment
The Delhi High Court RTI judgment (holding that the CJI’s office comes under the purview of the RTI Act) is available at: http://www.docstoc.com/docs/22007185/APS12012010-LPA5012009 It is interesting that this, and all other judgments, start with the …
Continue readingPrevention of Torture Bill 2008, and transparent law-making
Several readers have enquired about the draft Prevention of Torture Bill 2008, mentioned in my article on impunity provisions. This blog discussed the possibility of bipartisan consensus on outlawing torture in the aftermath of the …
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Protesting against the judges, and how do we protest
The Campaign for Judicial Accountability organised a public protest on the judicial assets declaration case outside the Supreme Court yesterday. Among various independent activists, students and lawyers who lent support at today’s demonstration, notably present …
Continue readingRTI on Appointment of Judges: A partial success
RTI applicant, D.K.Mishra has achieved partial success with regard to his application seeking information concerning the appointment of Judges in the Guwahati High Court from the CPIO of the Ministry of Law and Justice, Government …
Continue readingE-Legal: The Government efforts, shortcomings and suggestions
Guest Post from Sushant Sinha: Government has taken significant effort in making primary legal resources publicly available on the Internet. The commitment seems to be present but what is lacking is in details. M J …
Continue readingRTI – Judges’ assets declaration case
The appeal filed by the Supreme Court against the of the decision of the Central Information Commission in the judges’ assets declaration case has been discussed on this blog here and here. In this article …
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