Sexism In Courts: A Daily Reality23 April 2019 3:40 AM GMTWhen a female senior advocate faltered with her arguments last week at the Madras high court, the judge asked her if she had had a busy morning in the kitchen that day. The entire court hall laughed...
Why Dismissal Of SC Staff Who Alleged Sexual Harassment By CJI Is Disproportionate?22 April 2019 4:07 AM GMTProtesting a change of seat in office; raising a grievance to the President of Employees Association regarding change in seating arrangement; and absence from duty on a half-day for taking child to a...
Allegations Against The CJI And Taking Up The Issue On The Judicial Side – Key Issues20 April 2019 9:30 AM GMT
In an interesting non-reportable judgment i.e., CITU v State of Maharashtra, the Supreme Court, in a 3-judge combination, has held as follows: 'We are of the considered view that though normally...
On 18th July 2018, a bill titled The Arbitration and Conciliation (Amendment) Bill, 2018 was introduced in the Lok Sabha. The Bill intended to bring out several changes to the Arbitration and...
Justice Charles Evan Hughes' famous aphorism, that a dissent is an 'appeal to the brooding spirit of the law, to the intelligence of a future day', has passed into legend. It was famously invoked by...
Biopics are of two kinds - one that tries to concoct history; and the other that tries to live up to history. While the former is an image building exercise, the latter tries to document events of a...
On 19th March, the Delhi High Court issued notice to the Election Commission of India (ECI) in a PIL pertaining to the denial of voting rights to prisoners – both under-trials and convicts....
The Supreme Court of India grew considerably in power and stature during the two decades since 1990, earning the epithet 'the most powerful court in the world'. During this period, the Supreme Court...
Recently there has been news about Congress President Rahul Gandhi considering Wayanad as a second seat to contest Lok Sabha polls. Contesting elections from more than one seat is not new in the...
The recent Supreme Court judgment on the RBI circular dated 12th February 2018 is a treatise on the subject of interpretation of statutes. The judgment, sound on its reasoning, struck down the...
India, the world's largest democracy shall be witnessing elections for the parliament shortly. The election season in India has candidates across political parties, making passionate speeches to...
The public-spirited exercise in PIL by three RTI activists ended successfully but without any direction. They pinned hopes that this PIL would end disease of state lethargy that is plaguing the RTI....
The Election commission of India, recently, i.e. in March, announced the Model Code of Conduct, 2019 for the upcoming General Assembly Elections. Since we are not faraway form general election, I...
Inclusion and diversity need to be cultivated in Indian legal education. There is research showing top law schools, particularly NLUs, are elite and exclusive; the elusive islands of excellence are...
In 1973, the Supreme Court of India became the first Constitutional Court in the world to recognize implied limitation on amendment power (Basic Structure Theory) of the legislature in the famous...
The proposal to create two bureaucratic panels to receive complaints against CICs will reduce the CIC to the level of a glorified clerk without glory. It is a ridiculous proposal to make such...
Over the course of the last five years, several laws of substantial and wide-reaching importance have been enacted without securing the Rajya Sabha's assent. These have included, among others,...
