Over the past year, we’ve seen several instances where lawyers have faced pressure when they defended unpopular clients, either from the mass media or, worse, from lawyer associations. This issue has arisen, for instance, in …
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Tackling corruption in the higher judiciary: Interesting developments
Almost from the time of its inception, contributors to this blog have focused on the issue of corruption in the higher judiciary at regular intervals. This post from three years ago seems particularly ironic now, …
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Strategic Lawsuits against Public Participation is a well researched and analysed concept in the US. Sunita Narrain discusses its use against activists in India in this article which raises several other important issues:‘the pesticide industry …
Continue readingNew issue of the German Law Journal on India: Vol 9 No. 3 (March 2008)
I came across this almost by accident, and found some interesting academic articles on a variety of legal issues: debates over the Uniform Civil Code, mediation in India, law books in the Hindu legal tradition, …
Continue readingYogendra Yadav on Justice SL Sinha
I didn’t notice this earlier, but today’s issue of the Indian Express carries another tribute to Justice JL Sinha, authored by Yogendra Yadav of CSDS. Like that of Shanti Bhushan, which was the subject of …
Continue readingShanti Bhushan on the passing of another courageous Judge
We’ve recently been discussing what makes for greatness in a judge on this blog. This post is a continuance of that theme. In a recent tribute to Justice Khanna, Justice Iyer made a passing reference …
Continue readingSC as an institution of constitutional governance – Harish Salve’s lecture at Oxford
I am reporting former Solicitor General, Harish Salve’s talk at Exeter College, University of Oxford on 12th March 2008. It was a fascinating intervention on the debate on the ‘activism’ of the Indian Supreme Court. …
Continue readingThe reach of the Indian State and Legal System in Rural India: Findings of an MIDS study
Today’s Hindu features an article by two academics from the Madras Institute of Development Studies (MIDS) which reports the findings of an interesting study conducted by the institute. The question the researchers were concerned with …
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