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Puzzling over a former CJI’s letter, and reflecting upon desirable levels of transparency in the judicial process

On March 22, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Yesterday’s Indian Express carried a short letter from a former Chief Justice of India, Justice R.C. Lahoti. I for one am intrigued by his motivation in writing the letter, though its contents and claims are …

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Supreme Court and Human Rights

On March 20, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

A recent article in The Hindu dealt with evolution of human rights jurisprudence in India, and praised the Supreme Court for its seminal contribution to it. However, a recent case when the Supreme Court rejected …

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Understanding our blog’s inherent potential

On March 19, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

An interesting piece on the blogs by Nicholas Carr, which first appeared in Guardian and reproduced in The Hindu, captures the essence of our blog too, defines its personality to some extent. But there is …

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Corruption Debate: Flaws in the Moralist Approach-II

On March 16, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

The moralist approach to corruption – although insufficient to evolve systemic remedies – should help us understand the phenomenon in proper perspective. It was Indira Gandhi who once said corruption is a global phenomenon. Much …

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Corruption Debate: Flaws in the Moralist approach-I

On March 15, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Two timely pieces in The Hindu today – one by Harish Khare and another by Sriram Panchu – have sought to focus on the reasons why we have lost the battle against corruption all these …

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Pratap Bhanu Mehta’s Rejoinder on Judicial Activism

On March 13, 2007 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

I am posting a response from Pratap Bhanu Mehta to V. Venkatesan’s post on Mehta’s op-ed in the Indian Express. It seems to me that Venkatesan’s otherwise helpful post slightly mixes up two different issues: …

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Free online resource for researching legal issues in India and Asia

On March 13, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

The Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII) has recently launched a website that contains very useful tools for researching legal issues in a number of Asian jurisdictions. Since it is a recent project, and is a …

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Mehta and Arundhati Roy: Two different responses to Judicial Activism

On March 12, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

It appears to me that the phenomenon of judicial activism can bring about different reactions depending on what sort of critic you are. Arun has brought to our attention the article in Indian express written …

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Mehta’s commentary on recent judicial actions and comments

On March 12, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Holding the higher judiciary accountable seems to a recurring theme in recent posts on the blog. A typical feature has been an expressed concern about how one can engage in such discussions without running foul …

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Judges, media and open society

On March 10, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

I just read a copy written by our correspondent in Italy, Vaiju Naravane, who has gone to Argentina to cover the detention of Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Bofors payoff case. There she met …

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