Maternity, And Maternity Leave For Lawyers In Litigation!

I am faced with this today. Many women lawyers that I have grown up admiring, those who have or are adorning the bar and the bench, must have survived the inequality, and must have been through this at some point in their lives. The ‘this’ that I refer to is “maternity”.Like any other job, legal profession comes with its own set of challenges, and while I am the first one to say that gender based discrimination has seen massive decline, we as women lawyers, still feel the pinch of being ‘women’....

Doctors Must Explain The Risk Of Suggested Treatment To Patients: Orissa HC [Read Judgment]

Doctors should shoulder their responsibility with all care and caution, rise to the occasion, believe in hard work and discipline and behave with all sensibility.The Orissa High Court has, in a medical negligence case, observed that it is the duty of a doctor to explain his patient or relatives chances of success and the risk of failure of the suggested treatment and inform them about...

Spike In Award Of Death Sentences: Says Centre For Death Penalty In Annual Statistical Report For 2016 [Read Report]

A considerable spike in death sentence cases was witnessed last year, as per the annual statistical report of the Centre for Death Penalty for 2016.The report reflected on the rising trajectory of death sentences, with 136 cases in sessions courts as compared to 70 in 2015.The report pointed out that despite the guidelines laid down by the Supreme Court cautioning against award of death...

P.Shiv Shankar, Former Law Minister And Architect of Committed Judiciary, Passes Away

Former Union Law Minister, P.Shiv Shankar passed away in Hyderabad this morning, after a prolonged illness, say reports. He was 89 years old.Although Shiv Shankar had held several positions in the Government, it was his stint as the Union Law Minister in Indira Gandhi Cabinet, after her return to power in 1980, which was the turning point in India’s judiciary.As Union Law Minister, Shiv...

Interview: ‘There Is A Scramble To Be Elevated To The Supreme Court’, Says Justice K.T.Thomas, While Seeking Parity In Retirement Ages Of High Court And Supreme Court Judges

Justice K.T.Thomas was a judge of the Supreme Court of India from March 29, 1996 to January 30, 2002.  His memoirs, Honeybees of Solomon: Memoirs of a Jurist, first published in 2008, has been republished recently, by Universal Law Publishing, an imprint of LexisNexis.In it, Justice Thomas, not only discusses his early influences in his life, but also traces his evolution from the bar to the bench.  Justice Thomas also discusses the rationale of some of the landmark judgments, delivered by him,...

Right To Contest Election Doesn’t Recognise Right To Be Released From Jail For Campaigning:Delhi HC [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Monday held that right to contest election from jail “cannot imply that the candidate gets a right to be released from jail for campaigning”.“If the candidate is in custody for an alleged offence, it would be the discretion of the Court to release him or not, depending on the facts and circumstances of the case. When a person in custody fills up a nomination as...

CIC Tells Govt, Authorities To Create Awareness That Aadhaar Is Not Must For Marriage Registration [Read Order]

The Chief Information Commission has directed the government and marriage registration authorities to give widespread publicity through various media that Aadhaar is not mandatory for the purpose of marriage registration scheme.Disposing of a second appeal, Chief Information Commissioner Prof M Sridhar Acharyulu also directed the authority to make necessary changes for online application...

“Supreme Court Had No Jurisdiction To Hear Dangwimsai Pul’s Letter Petition”: Alok Prasanna Kumar, Vidhi Fellow

The Supreme Court’s dismissal of Dangwimsai Pul’s “petition” seeking a probe into the allegations mentioned in her husband, and former chief minister of Arunachal Pradesh, Kalikho Pul’s “suicide note”, as withdrawn, has led to a controversy.The Supreme Court, in its order, has defended its hearing of Dangwimsai Pul’s letter to the Chief Justice of India, Justice J.S.Khehar, in this connection on the judicial side, by converting it as a writ petition, as follows:“This petition has been listed in...

Pulsar Suni's Arrest Not Illegal: Justice KT Thomas

[Pulsar Suni, prime accused in Kerala actor's molestation case was arrested on Thursday from ACJM Court, Ernakulam. At the time of Arrest the Court was not in Session] Arrest from courtroom is permissible if the court has not considered his application for surrendering. The reason is that police arresting an accused before surrendering is a great advantage to them. Custodial interrogation is a sure thing after the arrest. However, if the accused surrenders, the court need not give him to the...

Every Activist Judge In India Is A Linear Descendant Of Jaiprakash Narayan: Prof. Upendra Baxi [Video]

NALSAR Lecture Series on Constitutionalism hosted its seventh speaker, Professor Upendra Baxi, who is also an Adjunct Professor at NALSAR, on the 17th of February, 2017 at the M.K. Nambyar SAARC Law Centre at NALSAR University of Law, Hyderabad. He spoke on the topic ‘Constitutionalism and Identity’. Professor Baxi recollected his previous visits to NALSAR, and termed ‘Justice City’...

Delhi HC Suggests Correctional Measures For Reforming Rape Convict [Read Judgment]

The Delhi High Court on Monday directed the superintendent at Tihar Jail to consider appropriate correctional measures to reform a rape convict sentenced to 10-year imprisonment.A division bench comprising Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra modified the life imprisonment awarded by trial court to 10 years of imprisonment after considering various mitigating circumstances relating to...

Explore Appropriate Programmes For Rehabilitation Of Women Prisoners: Delhi HC to Authorities [Read Judgment]

A division bench of Delhi High Court on Monday asked the authorities to explore appropriate programmes and intervention for mainstreaming and rehabilitating women prisoners.The bench comprising Justice Gita Mittal and Justice Anu Malhotra observed that the status of women prisoners is extremely sad and unfortunate.“In several cases involving women prisoners, we are coming across the fact...