Bas hua, judge sahab!
On 28 March 2025, 2600+ activists, academics, lawyers, journalists, artists and concerned citizens from across movements and different sections of society wrote to the Chief Justice of India regarding the…
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Justice Delayed Is Justice Denied
by Chaitanya Pandey, Shashank Singh and Sandeep Pandey In 2017 the Electoral Bond Scheme was introduced. In the name of making funding of political parties transparent, the information of purchaser…
Necrophilia: Locating Dignity in Death and the Law
In the US, two males were accused of breaking into the morgue at Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Hollywood Hills on September 19, 1995, and having sex with two female…
Justice NOW!
There is so much conflict around the world accompanied by brutal killings and destruction. Often these conflicts are simplistically dismissed as religious rivalries, competing ethnic claims, caste-based oppression and racism, Some…
“Painful To Stay In Indian Jails”: Bombay HC Directs Complainant To Pay Rs 4.2 Lakhs Compensation To Man Wrongly Jailed At His Instance
It has to be stated before stating anything else that the Aurangabad Bench of the Bombay High Court in a most learned, laudable, landmark, logical and latest judgment titled Thakan…
The Crisis of America’s Public Defenders
by John J. Donohue and Eric A. Baldwin STANFORD – The public-defender system in the United States is plagued by underfunding, overwhelming caseloads, and entrenched inequalities. Public defenders, who manage…
A Rebuttal To: ‘Vested interests’ trying to influence judiciary’, 600 lawyers write to CJI
On 1 April 2024 a press-release was published in CC titled: ‘Vested interests’ trying to influence judiciary’, 600 lawyers write to CJI.’ I was surprised – nay shocked – to…
Changing Face of Law: The Judicial Route
Under the Constitution, Parliament is entrusted with the responsibility of making laws. At times an easier route to change the legal jurisprudence to sail with the interests of the establishment…
People-Centric Legal System Not Decolonization or Indianization Is The Need of the Hour
Recently, the debate is being re-initiated when several judges of the Supreme Court have recommended the decolonization of the Indian legal system. Also, the Chief Justice of India in several…
How The Pendency In Indian Courts Can Be Lowered
Speedy trial is an integral and essential part of the fundamental right to life and liberty enshrined in Article 21 of the Indian Constitution. However, delay in disposal of cases…
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