I came across an interesting story about lawyers in Korea publishing report cards evaluating performance of judges. You can read the report here. The report suggests that nearly 500 lawyers assessed...
Two weeks ago, I wrote on these pages about Vasantha Pai, a lawyer, legislator, and freedom fighter in Chennai. All that he stood for, practised, and preached, was repudiated in and outside the...
I was lucky to watch the debate in Lok Sabha yesterday on the Bill (on the Lok Sabha channel) to increase the Judges’ salaries. Though the attendance in the House was thin, the House did...
At its website, the Supreme Court of India has published an annual report that seeks to cover developments from Oct 2007 to Sep 2008. In the foreword to the report, Chief Justice Balakrishnan...
1. Election Commission’s guidelines for publication and dissemination of results of exit and opinion polls. 2. Supreme Court’s judgment in Martin F.D’Souza Vs.Mohd.Ishfaq. Coram:...
The Tribune has been carrying a series of articles on the cracks in the Election Commission. Today’s article by P.P.Rao ( Cracks in Election Commission ) is the latest in the series and is also...
This is a post by Chandan Gowda, Associate Professor at the Centre for the Study of Social Exclusion at NLS, Bangalore. In this post, he explains some of the reasons behind the demands for internal...
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...
The February issue of Halsbury’s Law monthly deals with the media coverage of the recent Mumbai attacks and more broadly with freedom of speech and censorship. As previous posts on this blog (here...
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...