[Guest post by Preeti Pratishruti Dash and Rahul Raman. The authors are Associates (Research) at the Centre on the Death Penalty, NLU Delhi] Reflections from findings in ‘Matters of Judgment –...
Suresh Kumar Koushal v Naz Foundation (“Koushal”) is a bad decision which must be overturned. This is not a new or an original observation. (See, for example, most of December 2013 on this blog.)...
Guest Post by Vivek Anandh, an advocate in the Delhi High Court The recent decision of the Supreme Court to refer the Sabarimala Temple entry issue to a larger constitutional bench has thrown up a...
Guest Post by Vivek Anandh, an advocate who practices before the Delhi High Court The decision of the Supreme Court collegium to upload its resolutions with reasons is a watershed moment in the long...
Guest Post by Vivek Anandh, an advocate practicing in Delhi. The common law as a legal system derives its legitimacy from its reliance upon the established tradition called precedents or in other...
Posted on behalf of MyLaw We’ve written here previously about Part 1 of The Case That Triggered An Emergency. That video was about how a group of underdogs managed to unseat Prime Minister...
By Jhuma Sen The Feminist Judgment Project India imagines the possibilities of collaborative writing of alternate judgments for several Indian cases across a broad range of legal issues having a...
In a recent piece for Bar and Bench, Arvind Datar examines whether a fundamental right can be waived. I had long assumed that this question was settled in Basheshwar Nath’s Case. The Court...
by Sujoy Chatterjee The National Football League (NFL) in the U.S. has been in the news of late, for football players allegedly disrespecting the U.S. national anthem by kneeling/sitting/silently...
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...