Justice S.Ravindra Bhat of Delhi High Court has just pronounced his judgment in the Supreme Court Judges assets case, holding the CJI as a public authority under the RTI Act. This landmark judgment can be …
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Pendency of cases: Response from PRS
Readers responding to this previous post wanted to know the methodology employed by the PRS in their study. The following is their response: The estimate for time required to clear cases is computed by dividing …
Continue readingJustice Katju Recuses Himself from the Novartis Patent Case
In a recent post on SpicyIP, I commented on a rather strange twist in a very controversial Indian patent cases involving Novartis’ patented anti cancer drug, Glivec and an opposition to this patent by both …
Continue readingSymbolic Laws, Signalling Effects
Guest Blogger Kalyani Ramnath I followed the debate on honour killings with interest. Is ‘effective’ social reform only about higher conviction rates or is it also about community understandings? Much of the skepticism surrounding the …
Continue readingConversions and Bigamy
The 227th Report of the Law Commission of India on “Preventing Bigamy Via Conversion to Islam: A Proposal for giving Statutory Effect to Supreme Court Rulings” was published earlier this month. The report suggests amendments …
Continue readingHousewife’s Economic Contribution to the Household
Earlier this month, The Hindu ran a piece on a case decided by the Madras High Court, where the Court called for a re-look at how the death of a housewife is compensated in accident …
Continue readingSupreme Court cites NLS Journal
In Action Committee, Un-Aided Pvt. Schools v. Director of Education, Delhi (07.08.2009; MANU/SC/1458/2009), the Indian Supreme Court through Justice S.B. Sinha cited an article in the National Law School of India Review: It is also …
Continue readingDishonourable killings
Pratiksha Baxi’s thought-provoking comment on my earlier post ‘New Law on Honour Killing?‘ deserves notice, hence I am posting it separately here. As she outlines, any legislative measure to tackle violence against couples in the …
Continue readingSC’s order on Suchitra Srivastava v. Chandigarh Administration
Supreme Court has delivered its reasoned order on why the mentally retarded woman must be allowed to continue her pregnancy. The order can be accessed here.. I am reproducing the crucial passages in the order …
Continue reading“Fundamental Rights” and the “Chill and Distant Heights”
Barack Obama’s op-ed piece in the New York Times on August 15, 2009, reminded me that government servants do not lose their individual rights when they assume office. Imagine a Congressional law which prohibits the …
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