he five-judge Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court of India Justice KG Balakrishnan, Justice RV Raveendran, Justice DK Jain, Justice P Sathasivam and Justice JM Panchal ..
The latest judgment of the Supreme Court of India quashing the criminal proceedings against actor Kushboo for her remarks on pre-marital sex will go down in legal history for the high values it protects. “We can never be sure that the opinion ..
The change of guard at the top level in the judiciary in a few days comes at a time when the Supreme Court of India is adding more arrears to the dockets and visions of reform have remained empty dreams. In recent times, it had to deal with two case ..
The right to bail is concommittant of the accusatorial system which favours a bail system that ordinarily enables a person to stay out of jail until a trial has found him/her guilty. In India, bail or release on personal recognizance is available ..
I AGREE with the fact that it is the personal decision for a man and a woman, who are in love whether to live together or not. It is part of their Right to life, and not a criminal sin. But this is acceptable only for adults and not for adolescents. ..
RIGHT TO INFORMATION- IS THIS REALLY A POWERFUL WEAPON TO CURB MALPRACTICES? ‘Where is the life, we have lost in the living. Where is the wisdom, we have in the knowledge. Where is the knowledge, we have lost in information.” T.S.Eliot ..
I have been writing articles on judicial reforms in India. It is been reported recently by a news paper that it will take atleast 320 years to dispose all the pending cases. Our legal jurisprudence says that ‘right is might’, but, &ls ..
Oddly enough in the Civil Liability for Nuclear Damage Bill-2009 the operator’s liability has been capped at Rs 300 crore (it is reported that this figure has become Rs 500 crore) instead of SDRs and it is just horrifying to think that if an a ..
Balasubrahmanyam KamarsuAdvocate,Supreme Court of Indiabala.kamarsu@gmail.com WHETHER it is by the British Magna Carta (year 1215) -- “No free man shall be taken, or imprisoned or deceased or outlawed or banished or any ways destroyed, nor wi ..
The inconsistency in the law laid down by the highest court of the land is a cause for concern . . . The inconsistency in the law laid down by the highest court of the land is a cause for concern. It is assumed that where democracy breathes, and a ..