The Indian Constitution and various laws framed under it grant the Indian state and its agencies enormous power to regulate the movement of persons, especially when the bogey of national security is raised. These powers include the preventive detenti ..
Judges have every right to be a little irritated when the orders of their courts are ignored be it by individuals or by organs of the state. They are currently irritated by the failure of 'the agencies' to recover a number of missing persons – ..
Senior Judge of High Court Division of the Supreme Court of Bangladesh Justice Nazrul Islam Chowdhury recently attended a seminar on "Repression on the media and political violence: state responsibility and democratic culture" held at BRAC ..
The "pendency problem" — or the unacceptably large backlog of cases in our court system — has become something of a mantra. Judges, politicians and legal administrators repeatedly cite this as the number one problem plaguing our ..
In exercise of the powers conferred by Article 145 of the Constitution, andall other powers enabling it in this behalf, the Supreme Court hereby makes, withthe approval of the President, the following rules, namely:PART IGENERALORDER IINTERPRETATION, ..
The law ministry is considering a cess to help clear the three crore cases clogging the courts. Though the proposal is only at a discussion stage, it must be nipped in the bud. We've already had an education cess and it is unclear how much of this ha ..
The Tokyo High Court on Dec. 17 upheld what was the first ruling under the newly introduced lay judge system. The high court's decision will set a trend for high courts respecting rulings made in district courts, where, in most cases, six ordinary ci ..
We are working as NGO from last five years for ROAD SAFETY, SMOOTH TRANSPORTATION AND DISCIPLINED OPERATION of busses on roads of NCT of DELHI. We are repeatedly acknowledging you about the gap in ground realities and working or Transport department. ..
As this decade ends and predictions fly on the "big event" of the next one, here's a question you're unlikely to read elsewhere. What will the next decade's Shah Bano be? The reference being to the 1985 Supreme Court decision to apply crimi ..
Eleven members of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit based in San Francisco are scheduled to hear legal arguments on Tuesday in a lawsuit involving serious allegations of torture. The Bush administration tried to block the suit ..