Due Process

Due Process

Punjab & Haryana Bar Council Privilege Committee summons 16 advocates, two senior advocates, amidst bench hunting allegations
The nuns, the State, and the machinery of suspicion: An account
When public outcry fills the gaps justice leaves behind
The Vikas Barala case raised larger questions on how we appoint our law officers and what constitutional ethos demands
Justice Varma’s writ is an occasion for the judiciary to hold mirror to what it has become
“Police’s arrival instigated the mob”: At Delhi’s Palestine solidarity event, chaos, police unaccountability and the wages of India’s corrupted stance on Israel
A High Court directive curbing automatic remand for social media posts lays bare the persistent gaps in law and enforcement
Certain thoughts on the rule against bias vis-a-vis the Arbitration Act
On the voter list revision in Bihar, has the ECI forgotten its duty?
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Some insights from the US strikes in Iran: Aggression and the limits of self-defence
World Organization Against Torture flags India as “high risk” country for police torture: Some reflections
‘Subjecting advocate in a case to beck and call of investigating agency untenable’: SC slams practice of investigation agencies summoning lawyers, notes threat to justice administration
Editorial: We released the Justice Varma probe report. The real question is what must follow now?
All India Lawyer’s Association for Justice revives demand for in-house inquiry against Justice Shekhar Yadav, seven months after hate speech
What RTI data reveals about custodial torture, lack of CCTV facilities in Tamil Nadu’s police stations
Prison overcrowding in India is truly the story of overwhelming systemic apathy
A case for reforming the law on sanction for prosecution
Madhya Pradesh’s death penalty proposal for forced conversions shuns the judiciary’s principled stand on both capital punishment and conversions
Jai Bhim Nagar demolitions and the doctrine of unconstitutional state of affairs
State of satire or satire of the State?: Notes on the FIR against ‘Ms. Medusa’
Supreme Court’s indication for deadline on disqualification petitions would reinforce the Tenth Schedule and democratic accountability
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Standing by the Bar
Standing by the Bar
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As Meerut police threaten to cancel passports, licenses of Muslims worshipping in public spaces, a setback for constitutional values
Role of a judge: When to recuse?
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Forty years after Olga Tellis, Mumbai’s Jai Bhim Nagar protests against Builder Raj reveal the unfulfilled promise of the right to housing in India
The many unanswered questions on Justice Yashwant Varma that threaten the credibility of our judicial system
KIIT student death: Need to reform UGC and BCI guidelines to strengthen institutional accountability
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