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Introduction Section 23 of the Hindu Succession Act, 1956 on one hand recognises the qualified right of residence of Class I female heirs and on the other hand bars such female heirs from seeking partition of the dwelling house until the male heirs agree to divide their shares in the house. It is contended by…

Mathew John’s “India’s Communal Constitution: Religion, Caste, and Politics in Modern India” (“Communal Constitution”) delves deep into this intricate historical landscape, offering a nuanced exploration of how India’s, i.e. Bharat’s grundnorm grapples with the competing demands of individual rights and group belonging, tracing the historical relationship between State and religious groups in India.  Through a close…

Summary: In this review, Talha Abdul Rahman presents a compelling case for legal professionals, scholars, and anyone interested in understanding the history of India’s financial landscape and how the laws they shape society to read Saurabh Kirpal’s book ”Fifteen Judgments: Cases that Shaped India’s Financial Landscape’. Saurabh Kirpal’s “Fifteen Judgments: Cases that Shaped India’s Financial…

The Delhi Police violate client-attorney privacy and threaten India’s rule of law by exceeding the brief of a search warrant and taking away documents from a lawyer defending riot accused—in a case where the police are themselves implicated New Delhi: The essence of client-attorney privilege is that the law regards a lawyer as an extension…

One of the foremost duties of any person devising a system of adjudication is to create a system that compensates for the power differential. The system of adjudication under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) of the United States attempts to regulate internet piracy in the form of copyright infringement and content theft. However, its…

Australia’s expulsion of Novak Djokovic caused a debate over that country’s immigration policies and focussed attention on its hardline approach to refugees held for years in the and detenus lack basic legal services. Despite his fame and valid visa, Serbian tennis star Novak Djokovic, 36, found himself deported from Australia in January 2022. Some legal…

India has one of the longest Constitutions in the World. Dr. Ambedkar explained the reasons for its length by referring to the principle of "constitutional morality". In his speech in the Constituent Assembly delivered on 4 November, 1948, he said: "[T]he form of the administration must be appropriate to and in the same sense as…

Arbitration as a form of alternative dispute resolution has been promoted as a panacea for a clogged judicial system. Amongst the frequently stated significant benefits of arbitration, it is not the highlighting feature that experts would adjudicate the claim but that it would bypass the ordinary delays of the trial court in India, and further…

I am writing in response to the articles published in MG and at other places that most of the riots victims of Muzaffarnagar riots have not been compensated by the State Government and the Central Government.           If there is one thing that any individual must learn from the system of Governance in India is…

Judicial systems contribute to maintaining peace in the society and the ease of access of a reliable judicial system reinforces faith in the rule of law. It is therefore a natural corollary of existence of a judicial system that the procedures and costs in accessing the remedy of approaching the courts have to be only…

“In post- 9/11 America, Culture Talk focuses on Islam and Muslims who presumably made culture only at the beginning of creation, as some extraordinary, prophetic act. After that, it seems Muslims just conformed to culture.”[1] Islam is persistently poised against modernity, and ‘modernity’ is defined from standpoint of western culture whose beliefs are different from…

Recently, in the Writ Petition filed by Justice (Retired) Markandey Katju, former Judge of the Supreme Court, challenging the unanimous resolutions passed by the Rajya Sabha on 11th March, 2015 and the Lok Sabha on 12th March, 2015, condemning the expression his views on Mahatma Gandhi and Subhash Chandra Bose the Supreme Court has appointed…