By Shubh Arora 1. THE PROBLEM The Supreme Court has delivered many landmark decisions in the recent past. The recent Ayodhya judgment[1] is a stupendous exhibit of the Court analyzing a voluminous record. The Court had to sift through volumes of documents supporting claims and counterclaims. This tiresome exercise was necessary to decide the … Continue reading Bypassing Brevity : The Problem Of Verbose Judgments
Category: Judiciary
The Constitution (Ninety-Seventh) Amendment Act, 2011 : Co-operatives And Constitution
- Ankit Gupta The Supreme Court will decide whether the co-operative societies will remain a political tool or emerge as an independent democratic institution. Introduction and Background Amidst the major constitutional amendments and ensuing litigation post-2014, we lost sight of the challenge to the constitutionality of the Constitution (Ninety-Seventh) Amendment Act, 2011 (97th … Continue reading The Constitution (Ninety-Seventh) Amendment Act, 2011 : Co-operatives And Constitution
विदेशी न्यायाधिकरण: न्यायसंगत या पक्षपात कानून के संस्थान?
- रोहित शर्मा (This blog is the eighth in the series of blogs that JILS will publish in various vernacular languages as part of its initiative to mark the International Mother Language Day. ) कुछ दिनों पहले 12 विदेशी न्यायाधिकरण(Foreign Tribunals) के सदस्यों ने कोविड राहत कार्य हेतु मौद्रिक सहयोग प्रदान किया गया … Continue reading विदेशी न्यायाधिकरण: न्यायसंगत या पक्षपात कानून के संस्थान?
Singapore High Court’s Judgement on Homosexuality : A Critique
By Hetal Doshi and Sankalp Udgata On 30th March, 2020 Singapore High Court (“Court”), in Ong Ming Johnson v. Attorney General,[1] upheld the law that criminalizes sex between men. The ruling dismissed all the three appeals[2] which challenged the colonial-era law[3] to be unconstitutional. This decision came after the LGBTQ rights movement in Singapore … Continue reading Singapore High Court’s Judgement on Homosexuality : A Critique
Returning to the Communities’ Table
By Stella James The language problem Hidden in the north-western corner of Odisha, between the districts of Keonjhar and Sundergarh lies the Khandadhar: a gorgeous hill range home to thick forests, Odisha’s highest waterfall, and to iron ore mines. Going to the Khandadhar is a remarkable experience. One moves from dusty, broken roads with … Continue reading Returning to the Communities’ Table
Capital Sentencing and Execution Impact Evidence in India
By Atharv Gupta Even former Supreme Court (‘SC’) Judges feel that uncertainty continues to exist during the sentencing phase in death penalty cases.[1] In this post, I shall argue that the application of the ‘criminal test’ in its current form is highly unjust. I will further argue that as a first step towards evolving guidelines … Continue reading Capital Sentencing and Execution Impact Evidence in India
Has the ‘new’ S. 498A IPC Become Cruel to Women?
by Abhijeet Singh Rawaley Background In Rajesh Sharma & Ors. v. State of Uttar Pradesh & Anr., a division bench of the Supreme Court of India, comprising Justices A. K. Goel and U. U. Lalit, was asked “whether any directions… [were] called for to prevent the misuse of Section 498A, IPC.” The provision is intended … Continue reading Has the ‘new’ S. 498A IPC Become Cruel to Women?
A Little (Less) Research?
by Vasujith Ram In paragraph 160 of the judgment striking down the National Judicial Appointments Commission as unconstitutional, Justice Khehar writes: “A little personal research, resulted in the revelation of the concept of the “legitimate power of reciprocity”, debated by Bertram Raven in his article – “The Bases of Power and the Power/Interaction Model of … Continue reading A Little (Less) Research?
Conversation with Prof. Tom Ginsburg, Professor and Deputy Dean at the UChicago Law School
Prof. Tom Ginsburg is the Leo Spitz Professor of International Law and Deputy Dean at the University of Chicago Law School as well as a Professor of Political Science at the University. He is a prominent scholar of comparative and international and has authored or edited several books, including Judicial Review in New Democracies: Constitutional Courts in … Continue reading Conversation with Prof. Tom Ginsburg, Professor and Deputy Dean at the UChicago Law School
Conversation with Prof. Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology at DU
Prof. Nandini Sundar is a Professor of Sociology at the Delhi University. She was one of the lead petitioners in the well-known case of Nandini Sundar v. State of Chattisgarh (WP (C) 250 of 2007). She won the prestigious Infosys Prize in 2010 for her contributions to social sciences. She has several publications to her credit and … Continue reading Conversation with Prof. Nandini Sundar, Professor of Sociology at DU
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