Justice On Fire – Book Review Of Trial By Fire20 Nov 2016 1:17 PM GMTWhen the Supreme Court pronounced the sentence to Ansals in 2015 for Rs 30 Crore each in lieu of imprisonment, I had criticized the sentencing to be judge centric and unprincipled. I could not...
Book Review: RTI Act - Authentic Interpretation Of The Statute by Shailesh Gandhi & Pralhad Kacheri16 Nov 2016 9:25 AM GMTAmbiguity is antidote of transparency. Mystery of legal language takes out the possibility of realization of the right and leaves scope for contradictory interpretations facilitating injustice. The...
Edited by Philippe Cullet and Lovleen Bhullar, OUP, 2015, Rs.1195, Pages 510The former Union Minister, and Congress leader, Jairam Ramesh, while in office during the UPA regime, made a remark which...
The time to ask ourselves this scary question has arrived. Recently a riveting book came into my hands. It presents what you might call a 'reality check' on private medical practice in India....
ENGINEERS OF JIHAD: The Curious Connection between Violent Extremism and Education. By Diego Gambetta and Steffen Hertog, Princeton University Press, 2016.THE NEW XENOPHOBIA. By Tabish Khair, OUP,...
BY NUNO GAROUPA AND TOM GINSBURG, The University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2015, Pages 273.Reputation, as the authors of this important book define, is the stock of assessments about an actor’s past...
As one reads this book, it is tempting to refer to the two cases currently heard by the Supreme Court together, on the Muslim Personal Law. In Shayara Bano v Union of India, the petitioner seeks...
A THEORY OF DISCRIMINATION LAW BY TARUNABH KHAITAN, OUP, 2015, Rs.645, Pages 262.UNEQUAL WORLDS: DISCRIMINATION AND SOCIAL INEQUALITY IN MODERN INDIA. Edited by Vidhu Verma, OUP, 2015, Rs.995, Pages...
Apparently a great many people have forgotten that the framers of our Constitution went to such great effort to create an independent judicial branch that would not be subject to retaliation by...
OFFEND, SHOCK, OR DISTURB:Free Speech under the Indian Constitution. By Gautam Bhatia, OUP, 2016, Pages 347, Rs.750.SENTIMENT, POLITICS, CENSORSHIP: THE STATE OF HURTEDITED BY Rina Ramdev, Sandhya...
Efforts to ensure peaceful living with justice in plural societies involve challenges of various kinds.This book by Jhumpa Mukherjee, who teaches political science at St.Xavier’s College, Kolkata, ...
Book Review; Privacy Law ;Principles, Injunctions and CompensationBy Rishika Taneja and Sidhant Kumar,Eastern Book Company, 2014, Rs.1490, Pages 850The question whether the right to privacy is a...
Granville Austin called his magnificent book, ‘Working A Democratic Constitution: The Indian Experience’. In his book, he traced the evolution of Indian Constitutional law from 1950 to 1985 in terms...
In dispensing justice, the Supreme Court Judges state both the mundane and the profound. The journalists covering the 14 courts in the Supreme Court are most likely to miss both, because what...
As compared to those lawyers who cannot be called legal eagles, a legal eagle is one who is clever and aggressive. Therefore, journalist Indu Bhan's book, [Legal Eagles, Random House India, Rs.399]...
Former Judge of the Madras High Court, K Chandru, popularly known as people’s judge has launched his latest book, “Legal Profession and Appointment of Judges”. The book is a collection of Lectures,...
![Book Review: Ratanlal & Dhirajlal “THE INDIAN PENAL CODE” [34th Ed. 2014]Revised by Justice K.T.Thomas and M.A.Rashid [LexisNexis]](https://www.livelaw.in/cms/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/IPC-Book-Review.jpg "Book Review: Ratanlal & Dhirajlal “THE INDIAN PENAL CODE” [34th Ed. 2014]Revised by Justice K.T.Thomas and M.A.Rashid [LexisNexis]")
Title : THE INDIAN PENAL CODE AS AMENDED BY THE CRIMINAL LAW (AMENDMENT) ACT, 2013ISBN : 9789351430995Format : Soft CoverEdition : 34th EditionPrice : INR 650.00 / US$ 9.94Indian Penal Code, 1860...
