1. A transcript of the hearings in the Naz Foundation case before the Supreme Court is available here. The 125 page document – which has clearly been put together after considerable...
We are very happy to announce that Anup Surendranath has agreed to join the blog team at LAOT. Readers who have been reading his guest posts should already be familiar with him somewhat and can look...
When narratives on the Supreme Court’s enforcement of socio-economic rights are written, the judgment of the Court upholding the constitutionality of the Right to Education Act, 2009 will probably...
Every few years, a political circus convenes at the United Nations to elect judges of the International Court of Justice. The process is politicized, and a failure to admit this would be naïve. At...
Supreme Court yesterday dismissed the PIL filed by Rahul Srivastava, a student, questioning the continuance in office of Justice Dalveer Bhandari, who has been nominated for the post of a...
The website of the Supreme Court of India indicates that Justice Ranjan Gogoi was appointed to the Supreme Court on Monday, April 23, 2012. In my count, he is precisely the 200th judge to be...
In recent years, the Supreme Court of India has gradually scaled up the practice of recruiting recent law graduates to serve as research assistants under the sitting Justices. The notification...
I came across this disturbing bit of history (hitherto unknown to me) while reading William Dalrymple’s The Age of Kali. It relates to the Indian Army’s ‘Operation Polo’ in...
I worried that the round-the-clock coverage of Agni V would detract from the much needed focus on the RTE Act, but today’s papers provide some reassurance on this score. The Hindu...
Anup’s stimulating post on the RTE judgment sets out some of the salient issues at stake, and has initiated a discussion on what is likely to be regarded as a significant case in Indian...