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		<title>Of Privileges and Public Interest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of John Grisham’s celebrated novels titled “The Firm” revolves around the life of a young law associate faced with the dilemma of disclosing legally privileged confidential information about his mob-clients and subsequently losing his license. The movie with the same name starring Tom Cruise is equally fascinating with the whole story spinning around this [...]


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		<title>Electoral Reforms and Corruption in India</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[  2012 marks 60 years since the first Indian general election.  In this time, the Election Commission of India has come a long way in ensuring the conduct of free and fair elections at various levels, -thus cementing its reputation as one of the most respected constitutional bodies in recent times. Inspite of its reputation, [...]


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		<title>The Rule of Law a Good Thing?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 May 2011 15:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;The &#8216;Rule of Law may not always be a good thing. It is still a necessary evil.&#8221; So said Joseph Raz in one of his many expositions on the rule of law. The existence of the rule of law today has been vindicated by the recent judgment of the Supreme Court in refusing the curative [...]


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		<title>Podcast: Evading Liability in the Bhopal Gas case</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 23:20:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few days ago,the Government of India filed curative petitions (civil and criminal) in the Bhopal Gas leak case. The civil petition deals with enhancement of compensation as the settlement amount of $470 million was not adequate and the damage foreseen then was far lesser than the actual damage to life and property. In this [...]


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		<title>The Kasab verdict and Musings on the Death Sentence</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Feb 2011 12:26:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By now it should not come as news to all of us that the Bombay High Court has upheld the death sentence on Ajmal Kasab, the terrorist caught in the Mumbai attacks in 26/11. The Home Minister has hailed this verdict as a victory to the rule of law and the Indian Legal system. May [...]


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		<title>The &#8220;Anti Nationals&#8221;: A Review</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Feb 2011 23:07:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The “Anti Nationals” : Review of the Human Rights Watch report on arbitrary detention and torture of terrorism suspects in India Just a few days ago, British Prime Minister David Cameron made a startling speech at the Munich Conference stating that the passing acknowledgment of ‘state multiculturalism’ and policy of tolerance was one of the [...]


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		<title>The Supreme Court: India&#8217;s Dark Knight</title>
		<link>http://www.somethingaboutthelaw.com/2010/06/05/the-supreme-court-indias-dark-knight/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 11:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[So much for the notion that all of constitutional law lies there in the Constitution waiting for a judge to read it fairly […] That is why the simplistic view of the Constitution devalues our aspirations, and attacks that our confidence, and diminishes us. A week back, Justice David H. Souter, who stepped down from [...]


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