Detained Protesters Get Fewer Safeguards Than Those Arrested For Heinous Crimes: Senior Advocate Rebecca John

Provisions of the BNSS and the Delhi Police Act are designed to make protests unpalatable and to trouble peaceful protesters, John said.

Ideally, Judges' Children Should Avoid Appointments As Lawyers Of Govt Or State Agencies : Justice Oka

Justice SC Sharma should have disclosed, at the outset of hearing the CEC case, that his son was ECI's lawyer, Justice Oka said.

Interview With The Author Of The Book 'MN Rao : The Renaissance Man Of Law'

Justice M. N. Rao turned 90 this April. Across his distinguished career, Justice Rao has been in various roles- a law secretary, a district judge, a High Court judge, Chief Justice of the HP High Court, a Senior Advocate before the Supreme Court, Chairperson of the Backward Class Commission, a philanthropist, and a public intellectual.To mark his 90th birthday and celebrate the life and work...

'Supreme Court Opened Doors Of Accessibility For Persons With Disabilities' : Prof Amita Dhanda | Interview

In a significant ruling [Rajive Raturi v. Union of India 2024 LiveLaw (SC) 875] boosting disability rights, the Supreme Court on 8th November directed the Central Government to frame mandatory rules as required under Section 40 of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities Act, 2016 (RPDA) for ensuring that public places and services accessible to persons with disabilities. The Court further...

Prison Reforms-What Is Needed Is A Systematic Study to Understand the Causes of Overcrowding in Prisons: Justice Madan Lokur

Justice Madan Lokur, former Judge of Supreme Court in conversation on prison reforms with Jhuma Sen, an Advocate practising before the Calcutta High Court.JS: Michel Foucault, writing about the failed project of 'reform' in prison famously observed in his Discipline and Punish that: “One should recall that the movement for reforming the prisons, for controlling their functioning is not a...

Justice Mukta Gupta On Sedition, Police Powers, Community Service Under New Criminal Laws

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'BJP's Philosophy Conforms With My Thinking': Ex-MP High Court Judge Justice Rohit Arya Joins BJP

Three months after retiring as a Madhya Pradesh High Court Judge, Justice Rohit Arya joined the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) this Saturday. He retired as a judge of the MP HC three months ago, on April 27.In an exclusive interview with Live Law, Jutsice Arya shed light on various pertinent issues, ranging from his judicial decisions in certain cases to his motivations for entering the...

New Criminal Laws Are Continuation Of Colonial Logic, Expand Police Powers : Professor Anup Surendranath

Professor Anup Surendranath of National Law University Delhi, in a recent interview with Livelaw, discussing the three new criminal laws, said that a tremendous opportunity for truly transforming our criminal justice system has been missed. He opined that these laws are certainly a continuation of a colonial logic where the State wants as much power to control the people it is...

New Criminal Laws Continue Colonial Logic, Expand Police Powers : Prof.Anup Surendranath

Professor Anup Surendranath of National Law University, Delhi discusses the new criminal laws with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of...

One Nation, One Election | 'Problems Far Outweigh Benefits' : Former Chief Election Commissioner SY Quraishi

Former Chief Election Commissioner of India SY Quraishi in an interview with Manu Sebastian, Managing Editor of LiveLaw, discusses the concept of simultaneous elections.Video can be watched...

Digital Personal Data Protection Act Is An Outlier, Not In A Good Way : Apar Gupta

On August 12, 2023, the Digital Personal Data Protection Act received the assent of the President of India, clearing the way for the act to come into force when notified by the central government. It is the first law made for processing data in India and it brings several amendments to the Right to Information Act and the Information Technology Act. According to the preamble of the...

'Prison Not The Reform Centre As Claimed, It's Centre Of Sadism' : Prof.Anand Teltumbde [Interview]

Professor Anand Teltumbde fought for civil and labor rights while holding various managerial profiles during his illustrious corporate career and had only ever passed by a prison while commuting to work. “If a profile like mine could be tarnished over night as such an oxymoron as urban Naxal, then I thought nothing would be impossible in the world", he says months after his release on bail...