Mr. Chidambaram’s enemies
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…
Judicial activism run riot
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…
Sheer ignorance of law?
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…
Excluding the people?
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…
The HEC impact
The period between 2003 and 2008 saw amazing developments in the higher education sector of Pakistan, dramatically changing the landscape of our universities. In 2003, only 2.6 percent of youth…
Winds of change
Winds of change are blowing across Pakistan. With the advent of the New Year, there is a twinkle of hope in many eyes that 2013 will mean the beginning of…
Going around in circles
Given the state of the writ of the state in Pakistan, finding civil servants with happy faces is a rarity these days. But lately I have found plenty of them.
A landmark verdict
It was a laudable judgment of the Supreme Court which upheld the right of Indian Muslims to inherit the property that their fathers and forefathers had left behind before migrating…
Pragmatic activism?
The Supreme Court of India abandoned the persons who were unlawfully detained in the 1976 A.D.M. Jabalpur case during the draconian emergency imposed by Indira Gandhi in 1975. Judicial activism…
Labour judicial imperialism
Judicial activism, which germinated in the premises of the Supreme Court of India during the mid-1970, soon graduated into a sort of imperialism. Judicial Imperialism by Labour Courts, the Labour…
