Constitutional law
Constitutional law
Advocate-on-record Amit Gupta puts forward the unfashionable opinion that, although Justice GS Singhvi’s judgment in the section 377 gay sex case was not perfect and unpopular, he did in fact get the law right.
Column inches slamming SC’s Naz ruling overwhelm but 2009 academic argues how #377 is constitutional
Constitutional law
Constitutional law
Legally India has culled seven main reasons from the 98-page judgment, explaining why the Supreme Court decided that a lower court was wrong to repeal the law effectively banning homosexual intercourse.
Constitutional law
In today’s edition of Mint: The good news for those who deal in news is that the Supreme Court decided against framing guidelines for covering so-called sub judice matters, or those before the courts.
The bad news is that by delivering what some analysts are calling an ambiguous judgement, the apex court may have well made it easier to muzzle the media and, far worse, institutionalized the process by which individuals and entities fighting cases can ensure that these aren’t covered till the order is passed.
Constitutional law
The Supreme Court today rejected activist Pinky Virani’s mercy-killing petition for comatose former nurse Aruna Ramachandra Shanbaug with the case not qualifying for “passive euthanasia” which the court accepted “in principle”.
Constitutional law
The Kerala government has set up a special tribunal in application of “the polluter pays principle” to enable aggrieved individuals to seek compensation and settle disputes with Coco-Cola after a state committee held the company guilty of causing “reckless” pollution and water depletion in the district of Plachimada.
Constitutional law
Non-governmental organisations (NGO) Greenpeace and others are seeking lawyers to support the opinion of former attorney general Soli Sorabjee that the Civil Nuclear Liability Bill is unconstitutional.
Constitutional law The Bombay High Court has held in a recent land mark judgment on the cost of imported wines that state governments are not required to comply with the understanding between nations under international treaties unless the legislature enacts a law to reflect the principles agreed under such treaties.