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Delhi HC slams Insurance Companies
We just received this note from Sai Deepak, an advocate at the Delhi High Court and a contributor at Spicy IP, on the Delhi HC’s comments directed at Insurance Companies stopping the cashless treatment facility unilaterally for individual patients/policy holders. The observations were made by Justice Muralidhar on a Writ Petition filed by an individual [...]
Khap Panchayats: A lesson in legal pluralism?
(Guest post by Sahana Manjesh, a third year student at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.) One of the important debates within the sociology of law is the appreciation of legal pluralism. As a student of law, I am taught about the legal system in place in my country and elsewhere; a system that is [...]
To Cut the Gordian Knot or Not?
(Guest post by Sahana Manjesh, a third year student at National Law School of India University, Bangalore.) Marriage has long been a bastion of what is considered sacred and traditional about relationships in India. Divorce then is viewed skeptically by sections of the society, law makers and adjudicators in equal measure. Mercifully though, there are [...]
“Veiled Threat”
Nussbaum’s piece for the NYTimes on why the burqa ban does not suit the liberal democracies of Europe. Great read – she rips apart legal and moralistic arguments for such a ban, piece by piece. I’ve pasted disjunctive extracts here. The criticism is based primarily on inviolable philosophical underpinnings, and how the said reasons fail [...]
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Political Q, Legal A
The text of an article I wrote for the Indian Express of June 25. You can access it in its original here. The group of ministers’ recommendation to submit a curative petition in the Union Carbide case is an attempt to force a political question down the throat of the Supreme Court, expecting it to [...]
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