Mark Carney Steps In Amid Diplomatic Crossroads

Mark Carney Steps In Amid Diplomatic Crossroads

By Annunthra Rangan Mark Carney has replaced Justin Trudeau as Canada’s prime minister after securing an overwhelming 85.9 percent of the votes in the Liberal Party’s leadership contest. His tenure, however, will be brief, lasting less than eight months before...
No Shelter in Idleness – India Legal

No Shelter in Idleness – India Legal

By Binny Yadav In a striking and unequivocal rebuke, the Orissa High Court recently sent a powerful message about personal res­ponsibility, the misuse of legal protections, and the true spirit of family law. The case of Bhupendra Singh Notey vs...
Justice Delayed, Protection Denied – India Legal

Justice Delayed, Protection Denied – India Legal

By Justice Kamaljit Singh Garewal In July last year, Indian citizens were promised comprehensive protection from crime when the Criminal Procedure Code was renamed the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita. Quite frankly, renaming criminal procedure as “nagrik suraksha” is neither here...
Presidential Power and Judicial Pushback: SCOTUS Curtails Executive Overreach

Presidential Power and Judicial Pushback: SCOTUS Curtails Executive Overreach

By Prof Upendra Baxi For students of American governance, purportedly plenary Executive Orders (EO, hereafter) are not a new phenomenon at all—these are as old as the presidency of George Washington. They present the binding policy of the administration and...
Justice on Hold: The Cases That Outlived Generations

Justice on Hold: The Cases That Outlived Generations

By Dilip Bobb The backlog of cases in various courts, including the Supreme Court, has led to some disputes lasting 30 to 40 years—and in some cases, even longer. The oldest case is over 70 years old, and some have...
Thane court sentences man to life imprisonment in 2016 murder case

Thane court sentences man to life imprisonment in 2016 murder case

  A court in Maharashtra`s Thane district has sentenced a 30-year-old man to life imprisonment for the murder of a man in 2016, reported news agency PTI. Additional sessions judge A N Sirsikar convicted the accused, Ajay Lalbahaddur Vishwakarma, of...
Delhi court dismisses MP Engineer Rashid’s bail plea in terror funding case

Delhi court dismisses MP Engineer Rashid’s bail plea in terror funding case

A Delhi court on Friday dismissed a bail application filed by jailed MP Abdul Rashid Sheikh in a terror-funding case, PTI reported.The order was issued by Additional Sessions Judge Chander Jit Singh of the Patiala House Court.The Baramulla MP, who...
What are the legal options available against High Court judge after cash recovered from his home?

What are the legal options available against High Court judge after cash recovered from his home?

The manner in which the judiciary deals with allegations of corruption has been put in the spotlight as a result of news reports that unaccounted cash was allegedly found in the home of Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma.Though...
‘Misguided, outrageous’: Opposition parties slam Allahabad High Court judge ruling on rape | India News

‘Misguided, outrageous’: Opposition parties slam Allahabad High Court judge ruling on rape | India News

Deploring the observations of an Allahabad High Court judge in a POCSO case judgment, Shiv Sena (UBT) Rajya Sabha member Priyanka Chaturvedi wrote to CJI Sanjiv Khanna Friday calling it “flawed” and seeking the judge’s disqualification “for delivering such a...
Allahabad HC Bar questions move to transfer Delhi judge | Lucknow News

Allahabad HC Bar questions move to transfer Delhi judge | Lucknow News

THE HIGH Court Bar Association, Allahabad, has raised questions over the Supreme Court collegium’s unanimous decision to transfer Delhi High Court judge Justice Yashwant Varma, back to his parent court, the Allahabad High Court, following a report about the recovery...
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