Musings on India, the law, and policy
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 25th, 2012
The legal fraternity, and indeed all who knew him, are left poorer by the passing of Vepa Sarathi – a great practitioner, prodigious scholar, versatile teacher, and above all, a man with a terrific sense of humour. For those who may not have had an opportunity to listen to Sarathi in his element, and for [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2011
The National Law School of India Review, the flagship journal of National Law School of India University, Bangalore is pleased to present the first NLSIR Public Law Symposium to be held on 10 December, 2011 at the National Law School campus. The theme of the symposium is “Adjudication of Socio-Economic Rights by the Indian Supreme Court“, an issue which [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 22nd, 2011
The Rome Statute of the ICC itself talks about its jurisdiction being “complementary to national criminal jurisdictions”. Article 17 makes a case inadmissible if it has been or is being tried by a municipal court unless the proceedings are otherwise impeachable (for instance, if they are not independent/impartial). In contrast, other bodies operate on the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 5th, 2011
A DIG rank police officer, turned whistle blower now, became one of the few, if not only, high ranking officials to give testimony against the Narendra Modi government on the Gujarat riots. He was arrested a few days ago. The charge- falsely inducing one of his subordinates into giving testimony of meetings that happened with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Aug 18th, 2011
I have always cursed parliament. Loathe reading newspaper articles on how the opposition disrupts parliament and have my vengeful moment when I look at the list of long standing bills in parliament that are pending and waiting to be passed. One watching Rajya Sabha tv for the past two days would agree with me however [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 20th, 2011
Late last year, the refusal of the Goan governor SS Sidhu to furnish information regarding the Advocate General created quite some stir, and ultimately resulted in an order including the governor within the ambit of the RTI Act, 2005. This controversy has now been rekindled before the High Court of Bombay, with the HC examining the [...]