(In this guest post, Ritwika Sharma examines one of the more contentious issues of the NJAC challenge – the “eminent persons” who will form part of the proposed judicial appointments commission)As part of the new Article 124A, which details the...
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CLAT 2015 will go down in the history of national competitive exams in India as the most ludicrous and incompetent examination that openly insulted the intelligence of thousands of candidates and played with their careers with an unbelievably sick mentality. The...
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Supreme Court has accepted the unconditional apology of Advocate Manohar Lal Sharma and has allowed him to file Public Interest Litigation petitions with certain checks. The Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court passed this order on 10 July while hearing...
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(In a two-part essay, Vishwajith Sadananda responds to the previous essay on this blog, arguing that Article 124A and the National Judicial Appointments Commission are constitutional, and should be upheld.)—There is no doubt that the independence of the judiciary and appointment of...
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In the last essay, I argued that a plain reading of the Second Judges Case makes it clear that the collegium arose not merely out of the textual reading of Article 124 (“consultation” as “concurrence”), but as a necessary guarantor of the...
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On 16 July 2015, the Union Cabinet chaired by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi has given its approval for the second phase of eCourts Mission Mode Project at an estimated cost of Rs. 1670 crore. It envisages enhanced ICT enablement of...
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(Today, a Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court reserved judgment in the constitutional challenge to the 99th Amendment and the National Judicial Appointments Commission Act, bringing to an end protracted litigation lasting many months [“the NJAC case”]. The 99th Amendment and...
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#1: PIL to bring back Dawood Ibrahim
On 8 July 2015, Supreme Court dismissed a petition filed by a Madhya Pradesh resident Kishore Samrite who sought setting up of a special investigating team (SIT) to probe whether the government has made...
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Supreme Court of India has dismissed a petition which sought setting up of a separate bench of the Supreme Court of India in Chennai for easy accessibility of justice for citizens of southern states.The petition filed by advocate A M Krishna...
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A three-member committee headed by former chief justice of India R.M. Lodha which was appointed by the Supreme Court of India to recommend on the quantum of punishment that Gurunath Meiyappan, son-in-law of former Board of Control for Cricket in...
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The SC Bench hearing the National Judicial Appointments Commission (NJAC) should simply strike it down on technical grounds and not venture into its merits this time.
The collegium theory is headache-inducing!
The theory that gave rise to the collegium system for...
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How do we solve disputes which arise within the Sports fraternity in India?
The simplest answer is that sportsmen and their federations have the option to move against the other and take them to Court. But this leads to a peculiar...
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The Competition Commission of India (“CCI”) has revised the Competition Commission of India (Procedure in regard to the transaction of business relating to combinations) Regulations, 2011 (Combination Regulations), making them more forward looking, in keeping with some of the best practices in other...
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(With the NJAC hearings winding down, we will be covering the issues extensively on this blog. To kick things off, Vasujith Ram responds to Sarangan Rajeshkumar’s essay on the question of the revival of the collegium, should the Supreme Court strike...
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(Editor’s Note: This is second in a series of blog posts on the Labour Code on Industrial Relations Bill. Part I is here. This post is written by Raktima Roy and Arpita Sengupta)In this post, we comment on matters relating...
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