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Criminalisation of Politics: Latest initiative of the Supreme Court and the case for invoking Article 356 in U.P.

On February 26, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Last week, the Supreme Court referred a PIL seeking to prevent ‘tainted’ Ministers (i.e. those who have a criminal background) to a Constitution Bench, and also directed individual state governments to compile and submit reports …

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Deconstructing the Mashelkar Committee Report: Part 1

On February 25, 2007 By Shamnad Basheer In Uncategorized

Coming as I do from the relatively apolitical world of research and academia, the events of the last two weeks have taken me by surprise and left me wondering as to how easy it is …

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Supreme Court’s collegium

On February 24, 2007 By V.Venkatesan In Uncategorized

Another glaring instance of how the Supreme Court’s collegium responsible for the choice of Judges in the Higher Judiciary does not jealously guard its primacy accorded by the Supreme Court’s Opinion in Third Judges Case …

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New Contributor to Law and Other Things Blog

On February 24, 2007 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

I am very pleased to welcome V. Venkatesan to our blog. Mr. Venkatesan is a long-standing and well-known commentator on legal and judicial developments in India. He writes a widely read column in Frontline, which …

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Article 356 in the news …. again

On February 23, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

On Valentine’s Day this year, the Supreme Court delivered its decision in the Rajendra Singh Rana case, disqualifying 13 MLAs in the U.P. Legislative Assembly, and sparked off a veritable ‘constitutional crisis’ as the UPA …

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Assertions of Institutional Supremacy

On February 12, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

In a recent post, I sought to highlight the problems with Somnath Chatterjee’s assertion that Parliament ought to have the last word on the issue of Parliamentary Privileges, and that judges should stay away from …

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Justice Katju on the need to reform current judicial attitudes (and the law) relating to Contempt of Courts

On February 9, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Justice Markandey Katju, who was recently appointed to the Supreme Court, appears to be a representative of a rare species of higher court judges in contemporary India, who actually agree that the Supreme Court’s approach …

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Frontline articles on I.R. Coelho (the Ninth Schedule case) and Raja Ram Pal (the MPs expulsion case).

On February 7, 2007 By Arun Thiruvengadam In Uncategorized

Recent months have witnessed many interesting legal developments in India. I hope that some of us who were active earlier can revive this blog. While it was alive, this blog provided a valuable forum to …

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Dissent on the Collegium?

On December 1, 2006 By Vikram Raghavan In Uncategorized

This story on judicial appointments from the Hindu is amazing. Who is their source? I can’t comment on this further because of professional constraints. But, perhaps, others on this blog will. I would like to …

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Legal Outsourcing to India

On June 30, 2006 By In Uncategorized

Dear Colleagues: Thanks to Vikram for allowing me take up some of his blog space. I’ve just posted a paper on SSRN entitled “Outsourcing and the Globalizing Legal Profession.” It is forthcoming in the William …

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