Protect our Republic, my lords.
THE HINDU Sriram Panchu NOVEMBER 16, 2020 00:02 IST The judiciary’s quick intervention in the Arnab Goswami case turns…
CJI Bobde’s Trip to Kanha: Is State Govt Hospitality Compatible With Judge’s Code of Conduct?
A special helicopter was provided by Madhya Pradesh for the CJI’s visit to Kanha National Park and Nagpur. Was this…
Imposition of Exemplary Costs on Petitioner Reignites Controversy Over Supreme Court’s Role
BY THE WIRE ANALYSIS ON 03/12/2017
Credibility of Supreme Court Has Come Under Serious Threat
BY DUSHYANT DAVE The Chief Justice of India’s actions reflect a complete neglect of the rule of law and have put the acceptability…
Should a Judge With a Serious Moral Flaw Become Chief Justice of India? – BY Shanti Bhushan
On August 27, Chief Justice of India (CJI) J.S. Khehar will demit office. The next in line is Justice Dipak…
Forgotten cogs in the wheels of justice – Prashant Bhushan & Cheryl Dsouza
The exploitation of judicial support staff continues to be widespread
Five Questions We Have to Ask Before the Birla-Sahara Payoff Case is Buried Forever – BY PRASHANT BHUSHAN
11/04/2017 The time has come for the judges of the Supreme Court to sit together to apply their minds and…
Statement showing Approved strength, Working Strength and Vacancies of Judges in the Supreme Court of India and the High Courts
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The Supreme Court Must Be Above Suspicion – But Is It?
BY ARGHYA SENGUPTA 15/03/17 Questions of legality and propriety loom over the Supreme Court’s investigation of Kalikho Pul’s letter…
EPW – The Zero Case: Deadly Implications of the Birla–Sahara Judgment – Vijay Simha
Vijay Simha (vijsimha@gmail.com) was executive editor of Tehelka.com and Financial World. He is now an independent journalist based out of…
The conspiracy of secrecy
Yogendra Yadav The Kalikho Pul suicide note needs to be investigated at the topmost level Mar 1, 2017 A RECENTLY…
What we need to guard
Fundamental rights are no gifts of the state, the Constitution only confirms their existence. Our freedom fighters and members of…
Indian Judiciary Report 2015-16 [Part I]: Six important Supreme Court facts and figures
The Supreme Court of India recently released its annual report on the Indian Judiciary for 2015-16. Running into nearly three hundred pages,…
Appointment Of Judges: Balancing Transparency, Accountability And Independence
A very good morning to all of you. I am extremely honoured to be here for the Justice Krishna Iyer…
Not NHRC’s finest hour
Rather than fighting for those displaced by the Muzaffarnagar riots, it appears to be parroting majoritarian, communal stereotyping. The National…
To be truly transparent
Only a full-time commission, which is independent of the government and the judiciary, can impart transparency and credibility to the…
Across the aisle The NJAC conundrum
Sober reflection will lead to the conclusion that the predominant role may belong to the Chief Justice of India (and…
Clear collegium mess to maintain public image of the judiciary
The present atmosphere is surcharged with strong emotions. To take action or steps on account of this atmosphere will be…
Scions Of Themis And Zeus
Keep those elevated from the subordinate judiciary out, and nearly half of India’s top judges are kith and kin of…
My unsolicited suggestion
September 7, 2016 To the highest court: Please do remember that the citadel never falls except from within. I have…
The road to genuine reform
September 2, 2016 The only way to break the executive-judiciary impasse is to make public future correspondence on the Memorandum…
Bombay High Court Allows Women’s Entry Inside Inner Sanctum of Haji Ali Dargah
Mumbai: In a landmark judgement, the Bombay high court today ruled that women are permitted to enter the sanctum sanctorum of…
State of the Indian Judiciary, A report by Daksh
State of the Indian Judiciary A Report by Daksh Edited by Harish Narasappa Shruti Vidyasagar Read more at:
Rajasthan’s living dead: Thousands of pensioners without Aadhaar or bank accounts struck off lists
Some of the most vulnerable people have been denied meagre pensions due to errors in linking their details with Aadhaar…
The New Law Banning Child Labour is No Ban At All
The amendment seeks to abolish all forms of child labour, but includes a proviso that allows children up to the…
Chief Justice of India broke down. Whats going on?
Four months ago, while addressing the annual conference of Chief Ministers and Chief Justices of the High Courts, the Chief…
Minstry of Law and Justice report on pendency of cases
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esolutions Adopted in the Chief Justices’ Conference, 2016 [22nd & 23rd April, 2016]
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Supreme Court indicts non-cooperation of State Governments in drought relief
The Supreme Court bench comprising justices Madan B Lokur and RK Agrawal disapproved strongly of the non-implementation of Food Security Act by certain States including Gujarat.
Targeting RTI in the House
As part of the assessments, 20,000 RTI applications filed to different public authorities in the country were collected, of which detailed analysis of a randomly selected sample of 5000 applications was undertaken.
The Supreme Court is Also Guilty of Diluting the Right to Information
BY SHAILESH GANDHI ON 07/10/2015 The RTI law is being amended by the court without any reasoning and unless this is reversed, the Right to Information could slowly be emasculated
A Rule Of Law Culture
Rule of law has meant different things to different people at different times. This prompted constitutional historian Ivor Jennings to characterise it as “an unruly horse”.
Powerful governments have attacked Judicial Independence
Your book “Informal Constitution” is timely. Did you anticipate that the non-appointment of a nominee of the collegium to the judgeship of the Supreme Court would become controversial?
Justice at heart
Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer (1914-2014) had a unique judicial philosophy, a quality that stemmed from his belief that law evolved through diverse views and that flashes of collision brought out the truth and justice. By V. VENKATESAN
INTERVIEW: PRASHANT BHUSHAN
THE India Against Corruption movement started in 2012 culminated in the formation of the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP). By venturing into electoral arena, the AAP challenged the established political parties and promised to fight corruption, if voted to power.
A trojan horse at the judiciary’s door
The government’s attempt to restore the predominant voice of the political class through the Judicial Appointments Commission is a recipe for disaster
Judges have to watch their scorecard
The deplorably small number of judgments by Justice Cyriac Joseph, especially when courts have a huge backlog of cases, is valid enough reason for concern at his suitability for the National Human Rights Commission
A to-do list for the new Law Minister
Among the areas of reform that need urgent attention are appointment of judges, working of the judicial system, and restoring the independence of government law officers
The case that saved Indian democracy
The judgment in Kesavananda Bharati v State of Kerala, whose 40th anniversary falls today, was crucial in upholding the supremacy of the Constitution and preventing authoritarian rule by a single party
PIL Losing Out
Has public interest litigation lost its direction and abandoned its original constituency, the marginalised and the underprivileged sections of society?