* Delhi Police finds D.K.Basu guidelines a major hindrance in tackling terror. * Ramar Sethu affidavit: ASI official challenges his suspension in CAT. (Has my RTI on this had an impact?) *K.B.N.Lam to defend Kasab
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Profiles in Courage: Lawyers who defend unpopular clients
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 …
Continue readingHouse for Mr Ali
Tales of link between terrorism and discrimination against Muslims abound, but few show this link to be so direct, so shameless. In the aftermath of the Bombay attacks, some 300 real estate agents in Surat …
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*Manoj Mitta on why absence of extradition is no hindrance to hand over suspects to India by Pakistan. Interestingly, the CJI has said there is no clear legal basis for international cooperation in the absence …
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1.K.Krishna Murthy v. Union of India 2.Bhim Singh v. Union of India: (W.P.[C]21 of 1999): Member of Parliament Local Area Development Scheme (MPLADS) under challenge. 3.Economic Transport Organisation Delhi v. Charan Spinning Mills (P) Ltd. …
Continue readingOCCASIONAL DIGEST
1. Lord Bingham’s 2008 Grotius Lecture at the British Institute of International and Comparative Law on Nov.17 and Arvind Sivaramakrishnan’s article in The Hindu on Judicial Compensation for Legislative Weakness.ADDENDA: Thanks to Dilip, I got …
Continue readingPRS Conference on Effective Legislatures- Part I
At a time when elections in five states have just been concluded and general elections are due to be held by May next year, PRS Legislative Research held its first Annual Conference on “Effective Legislatures” …
Continue readingCan electoral corruption be tolerated?
Under Section 123 of Representation of People Act, 1951, any gift, offer or promise by a candidate or his agent or by any other person with the consent of a candidate or his election agent …
Continue readingPIL ON COUNTER-TERRORISM
Former Attorney General, Soli Sorabjee has chosen the PIL route to seek urgent measures to improve our counter-terrorism capabilities. (This report says he is probably the first former law officer to do so). As the …
Continue readingHalsbury’s Law December issue on Human Rights
Halsbury’s Law’s December issue is on many facets of Human rights. Contributors and interviewees include Justices Srikrishna,(historical and contemporary overview) J.S.Verma, and Sujata Manohar. In this issue, Chaitanya Kalbag cross-examines Justice J.S.Verma and Virendra Dayal. …
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