The age of judges
The 114th Constitution Amendment Bill has been tabled in the Lok Sabha (the Indian parliament). The bill seeks to enhance the retirement age of judges, proposing that the retirement age…
The 114th Constitution Amendment Bill has been tabled in the Lok Sabha (the Indian parliament). The bill seeks to enhance the retirement age of judges, proposing that the retirement age…
One month on, public outrage at the gang rape and barbaric brutalisation of a 23-year-old physiotherapy student in Delhi, causing her death, refuses to die down. Among the factors driving…
AN obscenity not repelled at the very moment of its occurrence gains willing acceptance if it is allowed to persist for long. Three democracies in South Asia Pakistan, India and…
Our politicians must want their children born 25 years old so that they can immediately win a seat in parliament. What else explains their hurry to induct them into politics?…
The brutal gang-rape and torture of `Nirbhaya`, a 23-yearold physiotherapy student in New Delhi on Dec 16 led to spontaneous countrywide demonstrations of a kind never seen before. The young…
The Supreme Court’s order disqualifying Yousuf Raza Gilani as prime minister has polarised opinions inside and outside Pakistan. One foreign commentator, Justice Markandey Katju, a retired Indian Supreme Court judge,…
When he is not in the Indian cabinet Home Minister P. Chidambaram puts on the lawyer’s hat. In April 2002, when the Bharatiya Janata Party was in power, he appeared…
ON Aug 10, Justice Markandeya Katju of the Supreme Court of India delivered a strong rebuke to judges of the court under whom judicial activism had run riot for over…
Ignorantia juris non excusat or ignorantia legis neminem excusat (Latin for "ignorance of the law does not excuse" or "ignorance of the law excuses no one") is a legal principle…
IN rendering its judgment in the 1973 case of Kesavananda Bharti. The Union the Indian Supreme Court adopted a novel theory of judicial review of constitutional amendments: the basic structure…