Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Court on Jun 12th, 2011
During my studies in civil procedure I chanced upon the Law Commission’s 236th Report on Litigation costs and Supreme Court fees in Corporate Litigation. In an interesting analysis of Supreme Court litigation, the Commission noted that considering the high stakes involved and the use of the Courts resources, corporate litigation has an easy ride in [...]
Posted in Court, Human Rights on May 17th, 2011
List of items that can be purchased by any person having the resources to read this post with 578 Rs ($14); – One Hardrock Cafe legendary 10 oz burger with a beer – two movie tickets in PVR – 5 beers in a restaurant – a single route sleeper class train ticket to New Delhi [...]
Posted in Court on Apr 20th, 2011
A damaging report by The Indian Express on a sitting Supreme Court judge leaves much to be desired. A senior reporter at a national daily recounted to me an incident from his younger days while stationed on night-duty. We were given strict instructions that obituary space must be allotted only if the applicant produced the [...]
Posted in Constitution, Court, Democracy on Apr 15th, 2011
With the wisdom of hindsight and given the current political climate, would it be too wrong to say that Dr. Sen’s release on bail was all but a certainty? I am inclined to believe so, but what is noteworthy is the Supreme Court’s recent whipping up of a jurisprudence that completely trashes the notion of [...]
“When all fails, look towards the Supreme Court. You may surely get your remedy at that forum.” True that. The Supreme Court yesterday played a diplomatic card in appealing to the Pakistani Government to release all prisoners who have already spent their prison terms and/or have been unlawfully detained in that country. Quoting Faiz, Justices [...]
To clarify, ‘Rolling Stone’ in this sense has no reference to Dylan or Mick Jagger’s band but a reference to the Ugandan newspaper that a few months ago published contact details and photographs of gay men who were later targetted by the community there. In or around October 2010, the Rolling Stone in Uganda published [...]