India’s High Courts stepping up is a silver lining in judicial gloom
ON 19th February 2020, the Supreme Court Collegium, which decides the appointment of judges to the High Courts and the Supreme...
Sedition law has no place in a democratic society
AS Samuel Johnson had famously said in 1775, “patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel”, it seems that the charge...
Lawyering in a period of judicial collapse
IT is often said that lawyers’ language and doctors’ handwriting are hard to understand. The legalese of lawyers, bogged down by...
Opinion | Bifurcation of Jammu & Kashmir has no legal sanctity
ON August 5 the Government of India introduced a slew of measures, unilaterally and undemocratically, which, in effect, revoked the ‘special...
Karnataka crisis focuses on loopholes in anti-defection law
THE Congress party is going through one of its worst phases, after the disastrous election verdict in May 2019. Its...
Sanjiv Bhatt’s sentence to life imprisonment is bad in law
ON June 20, 2019, a Jamnagar Sessions Court in Gujarat convicted the former IPS officer, Sanjiv Bhatt, in a case...
2018 was the year of the biggest judicial turmoil in the Supreme Court — with more misses than hits
THE YEAR 2018 will go down in history as one of the most controversial and path-breaking years for the Indian Judiciary,...
#MeToo presents time ripe for revisiting earlier Supreme Court judgment on defamation
Last week witnessed the biggest fall out of the #MeToo movement, with the resignation of M J Akbar, Minister of...
#MeToo is a great social churning that will fortify the use of 2013 Sexual Harassment Act
The last two weeks in India have been jolted by allegations of sexual harassment, molestation, stalking and sexual assault levelled...
Supreme Court reading down Section 377 goes beyond law as judges uphold transformative potential of Constitution
Finally! Relieved! Long overdue! — these were the reactions from the members of the LGBTI (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and...
Constitutional challenge to #Section377: Supreme Court’s positive approach gives hope for LGBTQI rights
The much awaited hearings in the constitutional challenge to Section 377, IPC began last week before the Constitution Bench of...
Deadlock over Delhi government is a huge challenge to federalism
The National Capital Territory of Delhi is not new to political spectacles, or drama, as they say, especially since the...
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