•  •  Dark Mode

Your Interests & Preferences

I am a...

law firm lawyer
in-house company lawyer
litigation lawyer
law student
aspiring student
other

Website Look & Feel

 •  •  Dark Mode
Blog Layout

Save preferences
Gautam.Bhatia

Gautam.Bhatia

Gautam.Bhatia has not set their biography yet
The Delhi High Court held yesterday, in United Rwas Joint Action v. Union of India and ors., that the Comptroller and Auditor General cannot be entrusted the audit of DISCOMs in Delhi, under Article 149 of the Constitution of India...
Continue reading
I’ve just finished reading a fascinating paper titled ‘Proportionality and Invariable Baseline Intensity of Review’, by Professor Cora Chan. The paper deals with judicial review standards of legislative action under the UK Human Rights Act, and addresses many of the...
Continue reading
October 28, 2015 · 9:32 am Today, the Supreme Court finished hearing arguments and reserved judgment in constitutional challenge to the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, bringing to an end a protracted judicial process that began last year with the passage...
Continue reading
October 28, 2015 · 9:32 am Today, the Supreme Court finished hearing arguments and reserved judgment in constitutional challenge to the Haryana Panchayati Raj Act, bringing to an end a protracted judicial process that began last year with the passage...
Continue reading
On October 27, final arguments before the Supreme Court will resume in the Haryana Panchayati Raj Amendments case, dealing with the constitutionality of educational, property and debt disqualifications upon the right to run for elected office. On this blog, we...
Continue reading
On October 27, final arguments before the Supreme Court will resume in the Haryana Panchayati Raj Amendments case, dealing with the constitutionality of educational, property and debt disqualifications upon the right to run for elected office. On this blog, we...
Continue reading
While re-reading Justice Chelameshwar’s dissenting opinion in the NJAC Judgment, I just came across – what seems to me to be – a rather significant observation. In paragraph 85, Justice Chelameshwar writes:“Article 326 prescribes that election to Lok Sabha and the...
Continue reading
While re-reading Justice Chelameshwar’s dissenting opinion in the NJAC Judgment, I just came across – what seems to me to be – a rather significant observation. In paragraph 85, Justice Chelameshwar writes:“Article 326 prescribes that election to Lok Sabha and the...
Continue reading
In a landmark judgment today, the Supreme Court struck down the 99th Constitutional Amendment for being ultra vires the basic structure of the Constitution. The 99th Amendment was intended to replace the “collegium” system, in which the three senior-most judges...
Continue reading
October 12, 2015 · 1:18 pm Harvard Law School is seeking submissions for a workshop on Animals in Comparative Constitutional Law to be held on Thursday, February 18, 2016.We invite scholarly submissions on any theme relevant to this topic, including...
Continue reading
From reports of today’s Supreme Court proceedings in the Aadhaar review petitions, it appears that counsel invoked the doctrine of waiver: it was argued that citizens were entitled to waive their fundamental right to privacy (assuming that privacy is a...
Continue reading
On this blog, I – as well as guest essayists – have written extensively about Rajasthan and Haryana’s moves to impose educational and other restrictions upon the right to contest Panchayati Raj elections. One way or another, this issue will...
Continue reading
(We are starting a new series called ‘Notes from a Foreign Field’, focusing on decisions of other constitutional courts, and constitutional controversies in other jurisdictions, written by specialists from those jurisdictions. In the opening post, Max Harris, a New Zealand lawyer and presently...
Continue reading
Recently, my attention was drawn to a fascinating judgment of a division bench of the Delhi High Court, delivered last month. Inspector (Mahila) Ravina vs Union of India concerned a challenge to the CRPF’s denial of promotion to a female inspector....
Continue reading
Yesterday, the Supreme Court admitted the State of Gujarat’s appeal against a decision of the High Court of Gujarat, which had set aside the Gujarat State Tax Commissioner’s denial of tax exemption to the film “The Colour of Life“. The...
Continue reading