The hearing on the SLP against Delhi HC’s July 2 judgment on Naz Foundation v. UOI (Suresh Kumar Kaushal v. Naz Foundation) began at 12.35 p.m. and ended at 12.50 p.m. at Court No.1 before CJI...
Chandigarh Admn v. Nemo: Should a mentally retarted woman be denied the right to keep her pregnancy?
This case was perhaps the first relevant opportunity to apply and test the principles of Naz Foundation for other minorities. But the Punjab and Haryana High Court’s judgment is a huge...
Sage has just brought out a 4-volume set on State of Social Justice in India edited by Ranabir Samaddar. The table of contents of these four volumes can be read here. Some of these chapters may be of...
The following statement has been prepared by the Campaign for Judicial Accountability and Reform. Readers are welcome to offer their comments. Pursuant to widespread public demand and outcry against...
There is much discussion surrounding the yet to be revealed Right to Food Act. Pragya Singh of Outlook India is not alone in her assessment that the Act “is being crafted as the centrepiece of...
In this Telegraph piece, I have argued that given the innovations under Article 15 in Naz Foundation, all vulnerable groups now have unprecedented protection under law, and therefore all minorities...
Guest Blogger Subramanian Natarajan I have been following with quite some fascination what is probably the only purely theoretical question to have faced the Indian constitution since the much vexed...
It is my pleasure to post on behalf of Shivprasad Swaminathan [LLB (ILS , Pune) B.C.L (Oxford)]. He is a Doctoral Student studying jurisprudence at Balliol College , Oxford. He is working on The...
Normally, when the annual budget is presented in Parliament, lawyers tend to spend a significant amount of time scouring through the fine-print, but essentially with a view to determine its impact on...
Guest Blogger Pratiksha Baxi For the comments posted here and many emails, much gratitude to everyone for reflecting on my previous post. Although the individual accounts of angst have not been...