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Ten years of the Indian sexual harassment law: A scope for improvement

By Devashish Vashishth This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the PoSH Act. The act was promulgated on April 22, 2013. Coincidently, it took the legislature 10 years to bring this act into existence. Before the Act, the employees were under the mercy of the Vishakha Judgment.  But after a decade-long period of time to the enactment, the question prevails, whether the act was able … Continue reading Ten years of the Indian sexual harassment law: A scope for improvement

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Patriarchal courtrooms: Freedom of women in the eyes of the judiciary

On 24th June 2022 in the matter of Dobbs v. Jackson, the United States Supreme Court overturned a landmark judgment (Roe v. Wade) delivered over half a century ago, effectively depriving citizens of a fundamental right to abortion. The apex court’s decision resulted in the obliteration of the constitutional right to women’s liberty and privacy, and at the same time, their decision making over reproductive choices was granted to the state and its institutions. Continue reading Patriarchal courtrooms: Freedom of women in the eyes of the judiciary

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Removing language as a barrier to justice

Chief Justice of India (CJI) DY Chandrachud said, “English language in its ‘legal avatar’ is not comprehensible to 99.9% of the citizens”. During an event, he also indicated that in the quest for increasing accessibility, the next step for the Indian judiciary would be to make judgments from various courts available in all regional languages of India. Continue reading Removing language as a barrier to justice

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Explained: Love jihad, Supreme Court, and law on religious conversions

By Deb Ganapathy The Supreme Court (SC), while hearing arguments in a PIL in January 2023 for the enactment of a special legislation to ban forced religious conversions, stated that the issue of the ban on forced conversions should not be given a political colour. The petition filed by a lawyer and BJP Spokesperson Ashwini Kumar Dubey, in December of last year, comes after the … Continue reading Explained: Love jihad, Supreme Court, and law on religious conversions

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Understanding the battle between Collegium and NJAC

By Rishabh Shrivastava The recent comments by Law Minister Kiren Rijiju and Vice President Dhankhar have re-opened the debate on the appointment of judges in the country. Amidst this controversy, we look at the long battle between the executive and judiciary over judicial appointments. In this article, we look at arguments from both sides, some important legal doctrines, and concepts. What is the issue? Recently, … Continue reading Understanding the battle between Collegium and NJAC

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Women judges in the Supreme Court of India

J. Fathima Beevi broke the glass ceiling and became the 1st woman judge of the Supreme Court in 1989. She later went on to become the Governor of Tamil Nadu. Her appointment paved the way for other women to pursue a career in a male-dominated judiciary. J. Sujata Manohar was the 1st woman Chief Justice of Bombay High Court who went on the become the … Continue reading Women judges in the Supreme Court of India

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Women Representation in High Courts

11 women in the list of 68 recommend for the elevation as Judges for the various High Courts. These 11 recommendations have been made for J&K, Calcutta, Gauhati, Madras and Kerala High Court. The other 7 HCs do not find any woman’s names. #gender #HighCourts #judge Names of women recommended for the judgeship No woman name in the list of 13 names recommended to be … Continue reading Women Representation in High Courts

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Understanding the Maratha Reservation Judgment: What did the Supreme Court observe?

By Gautam Kumar The prolonged debate on the reservation to Marathas was laid to rest on May 5th, 2021, when the Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Ashok Bhushan, Justice L. Nageswara Rao, Justice S. Abdul Nazeer, Justice Hemant Gupta, and Justice S. Ravindra Bhat in ‘Jaishri Laxmanrao Patil v. Chief Minister, Maharashtra’ unanimously struck down the Maratha reservation quota. The bench held that … Continue reading Understanding the Maratha Reservation Judgment: What did the Supreme Court observe?

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Tough road ahead for Chief Justice Ramana

By Gautam Kumar & Shikhar Bhardwaj Justice NV Ramana took oath as the 48th Chief Justice of India on 24th April 2021. His tenure is slated to expire on 26th August 2022. He assumes the country’s apex legal office in a challenging time as India is reeling under the horrendous second wave of COVID19, growing criticism of the Supreme Court on its tinkering with the … Continue reading Tough road ahead for Chief Justice Ramana

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Demystifying the Tata-Mistry Dispute

By Shikhar Bhardwaj The Supreme Court, on 26th March, brought down the curtains on one of the biggest boardroom wars between salt-to steel conglomerate Tata Group and its former executive Chairman Cyrus Mistry. What gave rise to this long battle was the removal of Mistry from his position as the Chairman of Tata Sons in October, 2016. The matter before being dealt by the Supreme Court … Continue reading Demystifying the Tata-Mistry Dispute

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Part II Understanding Domestic Violence: Discussing the protection and remedial measures for domestic violence cases

By Bhawna Gandhi In part I, we traced the origins of law governing domestic violence and its application by court in ensuring dignity and safety of women. In this part we shall discuss in brief, the protection and remedies available to the aggrieved woman.  Aggrieved woman, as explained in part I, can file a complaint on domestic violence with the police, a protection officer, a service … Continue reading Part II Understanding Domestic Violence: Discussing the protection and remedial measures for domestic violence cases

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#CelebratingWomen: Recent Judgments by Indian Courts

“The true republic: Men, their rights, and nothing more: Women, their rights, and nothing less” -Susan B Anthony The deep rooted patriarchal and misogynistic ideology in society has always considered women as a weaker group but today women across the globe have broken all pre-existing stereotype and are world leaders. Women fought for their basic rights of equality, vote, and work and even for their … Continue reading #CelebratingWomen: Recent Judgments by Indian Courts

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Inconsistency in Bail: Rethinking Court’s unfettered discretion

By Anubhav Kumar Stand-up comedian Munawar Faruqui , recently was denied bail by Madhya Pradesh High Court in a strong worded observation by the bench that “Such people shall not be spared”, Freelance Journalist Mandeep Puniya who was covering farmer’s agitation was granted bail by Delhi High Court on settled legal principle of ‘bail is rule and jail is exception’; Journalist Siddiqui kappan was denied bail by … Continue reading Inconsistency in Bail: Rethinking Court’s unfettered discretion

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